Here's a summary of the character I went back to, after deciding the "master of ceremonies" concept was too much work for the time allotted. I started research and anatomical groundwork a couple of weeks ahead of time, and built on what we've learnt throughout the semesters. I'm currently working on weighting the bones, so the final poses won't look too twisted.

head concept, profile

head concept, front

physique concepts. early modelling of rhino's head pasted on top of a modified superhero style concept I had lying around. In this aspect, the Joan of Arc tutorial on 3dtotal.com was very helpful in its methodology.

research: save the rhino!

research: the hulk kicks this guy's ass, but I guess he was one of many inspirations for the concept, as I grew up reading about how the hulk kicked his ass. and every time! man, why didn't he just hang up that costume? then he tried to pick on spiderman. man, what a dork!

research: misc images of rhinos from the web. they have a lot of character, especially when their scary horns are left to grow.

research: cgtextures.com was the base for 95% of the texturemaps. awesome site.

research: more cgtextures goodness. the quality of the photos allowed me to go pretty high detail with the UV resolution.

WIP: the current UVs. Some space left on the right, in case I have time to put in more non-mirrored distinguishing marks, like scars, etc.

WIP: recent render, back

WIP: recent render, side

WIP: recent render, front

hi.

you have some good textures here. What about posting a wireframe and also light up the scene a bit. Its a bit hard to see the details with that black background. Sees that you also have done some great reserach before staring the project which is always good! cgtexures rocks!




BTW: You are plugged for the front page

I tend to prefer graphics that contain a good portion of dark, since they also leave something to the imagination. The texture was composed with this stylistic choice in mind. I'll post some colour corrected versions of the same render so you can see some more of the detail, though that bleeches the skin out a bit. Guess I'll have to go 32-bit HDR on the textures to allow for that kind of lighting. Haven't quite gotten to that stuff yet, but hoping to get around to it some time in the future. Other than that, the size limitation on posted images of course prevent the finer details.

WIP render (scanline , colour corrected in photoshop)

WIP render (scanline , colour corrected in photoshop)

WIP render (scanline , colour corrected in photoshop)

Wireframe render. I'm currently working on rigging the rhinotaur for animation, so you can still see some stray vertices that haven't been weighted properly yet. For editing envelopes in the skin modifier, I'm finding the soft edge gradients that max defaults to aren't adequate, so there's a lot of individual vertex-weighting to be done before he's 100% done.

A wireframed profile close-up of the mouth/gums this time. Took about a quarter of the poly-budget to get these things looking sexy!