This is my depiction of how Carnotuaurus could look if it had feather filament. The smaller one, with the crest is a male, the bigger, dull chick in the background is a female. Male is trying to impress the female just like the modern birds are with all kinds of noises, dance moves and messed up hairstyles. Until another male arrives and the two of them pluck each others brains out. Now, I know all about what was discovered next to the 2/3 of a single Carnotaurus skeleton ever dug out. This feathery concept is me being inspired after reading great article I found online about feathers in dinosaurs, I recommend it, it's a good read for anyone with some paleontology aspirations: On feathers fleas and big stem birds

Hi everyone, I am Raffaele Grande. I am a 3D artist. I just want to share with you this demo that my friend and I created using Unity 3D. The aim was to build something to demonstrate our skills in creating game asset. It took us 2 months of working during our spare time and a few sleepless nights to complete it. However, we would like to expand it in future and keep it as our platform where we can experiment new things from time to time. As a 3D artist, I was in charge of creating all the 3D Asset, Particles, FX, Lighting and Camera animation. My pipeline includes mainly 3dsmax, zbrush and photoshop. My friend Gennaro Zazo was in charge of all the Programming, Rendering, Physics and Shaders. He also wrote a paper to explain what he did to achieve this visual quality and you can download it here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/pyv1zvjxzynr4uq/Some%20Graphic%20Secrets%20Behind%20Wrath%20of%20The%20Cave%20Troll.pdf We also had a Character TD, Marco Iannaccone help us to rig and animate the troll. As you can see, he did a brilliant job in very short time! This is the link to the video: https://vimeo.com/92464039 http://youtu.be/tH5fs3O5jkA You can also download the demo here: http://www.brokenbones.it/?p=989 Please feel free to give us some feedback.

A couple days ago I made a companion video for the one shown above. I'll keep making more like these but more advanced and in-dept in the future. I wanted to start with the basics from scratch and both the male and female versions were pretty fun to do: http://youtu.be/hySkZvLRcUE

Hey guys! Thanks so much for all the comments I'm glad you liked the last illustration I made. In fact, I managed to take another "photo"; of the creature before it saw me and went away, here it is: Also here is a bit of a breakdown on how I made this dude and the illustration process in Photoshop. hope you guys find it useful The model comes from a dynamesh sphere (the antlers are zspheres turned into skin and "dynameshed" it), very simple modeling. The only thing it might be worth mentioning is that the stylising of the antlers was done with the Dam_standard brush, Inflate and Standard brush. The texture of the skin is just polypaint and I used the Standard brush with colour spray and a doted alpha to generate variants of colour and to grow the fibermesh with that colour information. I masked portions of the body and face to create separate subtools with fibermesh to make it more manageable and to have more control of the length and "flow" of the fibers. The render was done with BPR and I rendered 4 passes plus mask, shadows, AO and zdepth. The compositing of the character is very simple too, here it is: NOTE: I took these screenshots from the process of the first illustration. For the second one (the one in this post), the compositing is exactly the same, but the shadow pass is stronger and I got rid of the Key light altogether. For the backgrounds and composition, I wanted a lot of depth of field and I knew I was going to blur things out, so I didn't spend too much time detailing things, instead, I tried to get the right shapes for the overall composition, to help guide the eyes of the viewer to the character. Here are a couple of GIFs to show a bit of the process: Lost creatures "shot 1" Lost creatures "shot 2" Let me know your thoughts! happy Easter!