really cool Chris! Love your mini paintings
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Nature's Wonders Sneak Peek Thread
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Flint_Hawk
Extraordinary
Impressive art Chris! I agree with you on needing a leaf prop too! Hint, hint, Ken! 
Szark
Awesome
1: Grab a free leaf texture map preferably with a transparent background.
2: Load leaf map in to Photoshop/Gimp Etc.
3: Make new layer full black.
4: Duplicate leaf layer. Move above the full Black layer.
5: Make this new layer black and white and adjust so the leaf is Pure White.
6: Duplicate White Leaf Layer and hide the Original White (This is you back up so make new shapes).
7: Now use the eraser with a soft edge brush and erase until you go a nice small piece of white.
8: Now save out the small white part and Black background as a Jpg. This is your first Opacity/Trans/Cutout map
9: Open DS/Poser etc
10: Load a Plane, small. You can make it smaller when done.
11: Load leaf diffuse
12: Load your first opacity map in the right slot.
13: Scale and position.
This was my process for doing the leaf parts for the ants above.
Yes, a morphable leaf chunk is planned.
I think I've finished the modeling part (and almost the UVing). Next, will be chopping up the model into body parts and rigging. There will be quite a few morphs since the head, thorax, abdomen and mandible shapes vary quite a bit from species to species.
I think I've finished the modeling part (and almost the UVing). Next, will be chopping up the model into body parts and rigging. There will be quite a few morphs since the head, thorax, abdomen and mandible shapes vary quite a bit from species to species.
Flint_Hawk
Extraordinary
Thanks for saving us from the work of making our own leaf props Ken!
And it will be morphable too!
And it will be morphable too!
I do have another small conforming prop I'll try to get uploaded to my freebies once I finish cleaning it up and making the DS version...
Here's the frog crown in Poser and DS... nothing that fancy-- simple procedurals for the metal and lining.
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Mythocentric
Extraordinary
Thanks, Ken! A little prop but one which opens up such a realm of possibilities!
wonderful mini painting!
1: Grab a free leaf texture map preferably with a transparent background.
2: Load leaf map in to Photoshop/Gimp Etc.
3: Make new layer full black.
4: Duplicate leaf layer. Move above the full Black layer.
5: Make this new layer black and white and adjust so the leaf is Pure White.
6: Duplicate White Leaf Layer and hide the Original White (This is you back up so make new shapes).
7: Now use the eraser with a soft edge brush and erase until you go a nice small piece of white.
8: Now save out the small white part and Black background as a Jpg. This is your first Opacity/Trans/Cutout map
9: Open DS/Poser etc
10: Load a Plane, small. You can make it smaller when done.
11: Load leaf diffuse
12: Load your first opacity map in the right slot.
13: Scale and position.
This was my process for doing the leaf parts for the ants above.
beautiful scene!
wow! cool!
Yesterday, my wife asked what my plans were... I told her I had plans to dismember my ant (for rigging). After an alarmed look on her face, I had to explain it wasn't that type of "Aunt". In any case, I did the rigging yesterday. I chose the center Thorax piece (where the middle legs are) as the base, so the model bends nicely for poses... so many of the older insect models were rigged back to front making posing extremely difficult. The Abdomen(rump)/Petiole(skinny part) bend really nicely to do a proper sting.
Today, I started the morphs and here's the first of the species compare to the base model...
Today, I started the morphs and here's the first of the species compare to the base model...
great!
I've been finding out some interesting (and disturbing) things about ants... Did you know that if you combined the weight of every single human to every single ant in the world, they'd be about equal? That's a lot of ants...
Here's one third of the species that will be in the set... I will be including a "Them" sized ant figuring it could be used for riding or end of the world... your choice
Here's one third of the species that will be in the set... I will be including a "Them" sized ant figuring it could be used for riding or end of the world... your choice