Hi Everyone. It’s been a while since I have posted but I have been very busy. My skill level has improved drastically thanks to this furum. I’ve really been trying to practice on developing convincing materials and textures.
My next project is going to be compiled of three seperate images. It is going to be a visual documentary on a creature that I created a while back called a butterfly dragon. The butterfly dragons have three stages in their lives that are very similar to the stages of a butterfly. First, egg. Second, pupae (or caterpilar). Third, adult. It changes from pupae to adult by use of a leathery cocoon. The butterfly dragon lives only in mountains near Xi’an, China.
I am going to be writing a kind of zooligical report about it. Kind of like what you would find in national geographic. I will eventually offer this at a set of prints on my website. I’m going for realism, so tell me what you think, please.
AND A BIG THANKS to everyone who contributed to the awesome thread that MTB started about Sub Surface Scattering. That helped tremendously.
Here is the pupae stage. The worm is about six to seven inches long. So, it’s a big one. the scene for all three images will be the forest, on the same branch of a tree This guy will be eating a leaf.
No really, I thought that the caterpilar stage might be different from the pupa. I guess that the the cocoon is the pupa then. So it has four stages I guess.
