WIP HiveWire Wolf Has Begun!

[carmen indorato]

Wild dog is a cool canine species a shame is dying off. Would love a wild dog for my work with related pups!

 

[carmen indorato]

progress on this wolf?

 

[Chris]

progress on this wolf?

Back Burner I'm afraid.

Hey, but I did get a start on our Bengal Tiger this weekend. Check out the Big Cat thread.

 

[carmen indorato]

Saw that. Thanks for the heads up/ Think you will be getting some help in the coming year Chris to help keep things moving along a bit faster? Would sure be nice to get my sweaties on some of these beautiful animals of yours? Tiger wolf and Bull have been on DEEPLY DESIRABLE BEASTIE list for way to loooooooong! LOL

 

[Chris]

Been spending some time as of late trying to advance our Wolf morph shape from our Big Dog mesh.

I received some great feedback from Laurie Prindle and Flint Hawk on some features to improve our base look. It's really coming along now. Just a bit more on the teeth positioning and taper the tail more at the end.

Flint Hawk has some amazing maps already done for this animal, and she has several more types and colors planned. What I've seen from her is beautiful. Hoping I can get this new shape to her soon and she can post some WIPs.

I just have a couple more hours to put in on this and then I'm back to Dawn 2.0 UV work.

Here's what I've been up to:

 

[Miss B]

WOOT! WOOT!! WOOT!!! Way to go Chris!!!! Looking Faaaaantastic!

 

[Satira Capriccio]

Awesome, Chris.

Mother Nature Network recently had a slideshow of Nature's 10 best animal dads, and of course, the wolf was included. Male wolves are not deadbeat fathers like some animals ... or worse, fathers who can't be trusted around their kids. Noo. They are attentive and fiercely protective of their mate and babes, and ... and need I mention ... monogamous?

 

[Miss B]

Thanks for that link Satira, that was interesting, though I always knew about the Emperor Penguins, as I saw a documentary years ago where they were all taking care of the eggs before they hatched, and the babies after they were hatched, while the females went off to get dinner for them. This was up in the Arctic region, where there's more water, than down in the Antarctic region, which is pretty much all ice.

 

[Freyfaxi]

Sorry..Emperor Penguins are strictly an Antarctic species. There are no penguins that are native to the Arctic regions
And it's great to hear of more progress on the HW Wolf.. I'm sooo looking forward to seeing him released into the wild for us to play with

 

[Harimau]

Nice to see some progress, Chris. Looks good, too.

 

[Miss B]

Sorry..Emperor Penguins are strictly an Antarctic species. There are no penguins that are native to the Arctic regions

Hmmm, well the documentary I saw may not have been Emperor Penguins, but they were definitely in the Arctic region, and I saw another documentary that was in the Antarctic region which had no water nearby, so the females had to travel for hours, if not days to find food for their mates and young ones, and a good many of the males and females perished from the extreme cold and ice.

Of course, I saw both these documentaries a couple of decades ago, so I have no idea what the status of the Penguin population is these days in either area of the world.

 

[Ken Gilliland]

...Of course, I saw both these documentaries a couple of decades ago, so I have no idea what the status of the Penguin population is these days in either area of the world.

I don't want to sidetrack this thread (which should be about the progress of the HW Wolf), but the Emperor Penguin news isn't good thanks to climate change.

 

[FairyFantastic]

looking awsome

 

[Mythocentric]

This is the one animal I have been waiting for given its deep relationship to so many of my beloved Celtic saga's. Bring it on!

 

[DanaTA]

I don't want to sidetrack this thread (which should be about the progress of the HW Wolf), but the Emperor Penguin news isn't good thanks to climate change.

Dana

 

[Chris]

Okay, I now have our HiveWire Wolf base ready to hand off, that is if my new adjusted and tweaked base shape meets with approval.

I spend some time postioning the teeth and inner mouth parts. It should now be ready to receive facial morphs and look great.

I also reshaped the tail and tapered it as requested.

Here are several screen grabs, with some compared to our Big Dog base.

 

[mininessie]

looks great!

 

[Miss B]

Loving it to pieces!!

 

[Dakorillon (IMArts)]

Fantastic!

 

[Ivory Elephant]

Very nice