Dennis`s Portfolio Thread

[multimediaman]

was that video supposed to be fairly jumpy? or is that my computer?

[Dennispls]

No i think it was the compression or the capture itself
was done on my laptop

[XSImatrix]

it wasnt thaaaaat choppy...

looks awsome!

[Dennispls]

Some new stuff :

For a CGtalk contest MGAC (2nd place)

[Tigga]

Very nice.

[Johnas]

Heh more than very nice ~

[andybuck]

wow nice

[Dennispls]

Here is another model + texture i made for a contest on mapcore

my first character and texture

[clix101]

nice! looks really good keep it up

[Xoliul]

Damn, characters, I bet that's a whole other thing than cars. Would you mind posting a wireframe of that dinosaur ? I'd be very interested in seeing how you did such a great job.

[Johnas]

Ye wires would be nice, I tried to model a cat one time but it turned out to be anything else than a cat

[Dennispls]

wire:

[multimediaman]

Not sure about the teeth on the dinosaur. If you're modeling a character, even if you don't want to go into rigging and animating it, it's probably best to set it up so that it will animate properly and well. Due to the fairly limited movements of this thing, the body joints should hold fairly well, as far as I know, but the thing's mouth closes, and you've got teeth protruding through the top and/or bottom of the head. I'd recommend splitting the teeth plane up and separating them from eachother so if the mouth were to close, it'd solve two potential problems. 1.) teeth protruding out of head, or 2.) teeth scaling down in size as mouth closes...

[Dennispls]

Of course were it not that i could not use more than 350 triangles for this contest.

[multimediaman]

ah, that makes sense... heh. Talk about pushing them polys. splitting the teeth would add exactly 6 tri's to the model, if I'm seeing things right. If, instead of square faces for the claws, you were to use a single triangle unwrapped fairly loosely around the claw texture (which the one by the tongue would work better, there's actually 2 in the map) That way the geometry defining the claws might be larger, but you'd save exactly 6 triangles using that technique.

But regardless, the model is really nice.

[Xoliul]

Very nice. I'll have to do stuff like this at school too i guess.
Also, is that texture handpainted ?

[Dennispls]

yes its hand painted
The only thing i overlaid was a leather picture so it had more texture
the rest is all hand drawn with my mini wacom

[ML]

Very nice stuff Dennis

[Silent][Moebius]

dennis i like your stuff a lot because it has a very nice flair to it. your 2d art is really incredible too