Big red beasty (or well its going to be)

[Derdlla]

well this is my first half decent piece in lightwave (done a few before this but they where a bit Poo!)

Hopefully i'll get some advice on imporving the model but most likly i'll get some harsh advice on how to use attacments ;) Oh well i'l learn something either way

[Derdlla]

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[Zarathustra]

Yeah, that's cool. Post a wireframe. The feet look very good.
I have an on again, off again dragon project. I should call him the perpetual dragon; or, the -unfocused-animator-trying-to-do-too-many-different-things dragon.

You might run into problems with the wing intersecting the hip when you get the wings flapping.

[Derdlla]

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[Derdlla]

Haha a usefull comment and i managed to post images Wooo hooo i think i'm having a good.

Animate! I've got to figure out texturing yet any suggestion on how to aviod the whole hipes through wings ordeal thanks

[oxyg3n]

Hey,
Good job on the wings, I too tried my stab at a dragon not to long ago and I was stumped at how to model the wings realistically with the flesh between the bones.

Did you use extender to do that?

[Derdlla]

I tried Extender but it look crap where it joins to the dragon, it's atucally Smooth Shifted. It the best way i could figure out but i don't know any better.

Oh yeah any tips on how to go about texturing, spliting the UV up and i'll have to go through a Tut at some point :(

[Zarathustra]

I'd have the wings flat, so you can map planar Y.

You should think multiple maps. Here's a UV tut:
http://www.jackydaniel.com/pages/Tutorial.htm

If you're going to animate it, work that out first before texturing. If you spend a lot of time texturing and then find you have to modify the model to properly animate, you're gonna be pissed.