Desert Louse

[cmoffitt]

This kicks all kinds of ass. Well done, man.

[nofounture]

this ll soon be the top! let my prediction to be true,i ll wait!!!!!

[KonginChains]

great work.. looking forward to getting the 3d artist magazine now.
Cheers.

[3mm]

really nice work,nice amount of detail you've put in your creature

[Picasin]

At the same time beautiful and disgusting. Cool.

[Wetterschneider]

Amazing, amazing, amazing and thank you for posting some of the technical background. I love it to see the generosity like that on the forums.

[tyrellcorp]

very good stuff man.

how did you do the envoiroment in maya?

[makan ansari]

Awesome job

[mrthirdeyeching]

Wow! Impressive!!

[siyukalebtao]

wow,this is awesome! Crazy concept, modeling, texturing, rendering,man!
sss is cool,would you mind tell how is the shader going?

[Pteropus vampyrus]

Thanks guys for the likes, and thanks Pixo for the top row!

siyukalebtao: The shader, I'm using two Fastskin sss shaders in Mental ray for Maya. The one on the skin allows light to pass much deeper so giving a more flesh like feel the shell has almost no depth for light to pass.

The eyes and claws etc have mia material X with glossy reflections. I have lots of maps hand painted to drive different spec results etc but that's about it concerning the shader.

tyrellcorp: Cheers man the bg is 3d foreground elements rendered in the same scene as the louse and the planet etc is a matte painting plate that Dan baker did.

[pOiNtPuShEr]

Wonderful work, thanks for sharing the process and the nightmare! He's awesome and suuuuper creepy!

[siyukalebtao]

Thank you for the sss shader! I appreciate!
I'll have a try.

[majid_smiley]

Awesome work man ! Very nice creature !

[danpants]

Loved the textures and render came out amazing!