Hi Rick Baker, your digital work is excellent. I don’t know if this is the place to say this, and I know it’s going back a bit, but Gremlins 2 is my favorite puppetry of all time, and the fluidity, aliveness of those characters is still more alive than alot of cgi today. just saying.
Thanks guys.
I agree about thee paws there kind of monster hands. I’ll have to find some better reference.Though I kind of like them monsterish.
voxelation, glad you liked Gremlins 2. Personally I think the puppeteering was very puppety but I’m glad you like it. It is tough when you only get a take or two to get it right during a crazy shooting day.
Hey don’t know if anyone cares but there is an article in the recent Entertainment Weekly on my MIB3 aliens with a not very food photo of me as an alien in the film.
Going to work on the rat tonight hopefully have an update tomorrow.
Cool rat Rick! Cant wait to see what kind of fur you end up chucking on it. Scraggly or neat or patchy or groomed or who knows!!
Fur is fun.
I checked out the Entertainment Tonight MIB. Totally brilliant. A lot of stuff from nature, insects magnified, crabs. good old silicon. maybe foam latex. very fresh looking designs.
Those beady eyes ! LOL Nice work as always. No matter what I forget to save sometimes and have crashes … I always save probaby 7 or 8 versions but that one time … Arrgghh Always after a bunch of details … Pushed wrong buttons and crashed a few times as well … always scary thinking when was last save LOL
Ok here is how he looks now. I was going to put more details on him but came to my senses since he is gong to be covered with hair.His tail has gotten a little too blunt. I’ll probably give him one more working over then I’ll polypaint and hair him.
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Wow. This is some tight, nicely executed sculpting. The ears and paws in particular are awesome. I’m really looking forward to seeing how this critter evolves.
edit: ha ha! I just saw you replied to my thread a few minutes ago 
I guess monsters in the morning is the true breakfast of champions! Or at least the breakfast of guys that like monsters!
Thats something I would do lol, go to far then cover it all up. Looks great still loving the eyes and ears, looks like the muzzle details tightened up a bit,
cleaner/tighter transitions.
Ligthting is nice too like that rim left.
Food of the Gods! Simply awesome Rick!
-M
Had a little free time last night and started to polypaint this guy. Way before I finished painting I decided that I wanted to see what he looked like with some fur so I quickly slapped some on him. Now I’m anxious to do both right.
Yah Mitch veryFood of the Gods
Hey does anybody know why I got this strange thing in the corner. It happened when I use the paint BPR filter. I can get it to go away when I don’t use the filter butI liked the darkness I get in the background with it.
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If ever a movie was ripe to remake it would be “Food of the Gods”
Get a bit of warped mutation on this from rapid growth to the size of a horse and viola!
Love visiting your threads. Always something entertaining to view.
That’s a nice looking rat. I just realised I used an oxymoron! Have you tried turning the depth slider up so it pushes the effect closer to the background? Might work. 
small_orange_diamond
Rick, It looks like that may be the edge of the floor. Try this, go to the draw palette and toward the bottom you’ll see a slider labeled grid s. Increase the floor size and see if that works. I can’t think of anything else it might be. Beautiful work as always on the rat.
Food of the Gods lol. I still can’t believe Bert I. Gordon was still making films all the way up to 1990. I still think The Amazing Colossal Man will always be my favorite bad movie of all time. 
It’s so great to see you posting again, thanks for all the inspiration! Looks really good! small_orange_diamond
Do these models are made ***8203;***8203;to a specific project or are lessons to learn?
Perfectly made models, hair andrender!
Do thesemodels aremade***8203;***8203;to a specific projectorarelessons tolearn?
Cute creature. I really like the view and pose in post #206.
Fur looks nice and soft. Did you use ambient occlusion
for the render or give it a problem with fibermesh.
Cheers
Ralf Stumpf
Great results with the fiber mesh. It would interesting to see your settings for the fiber mesh, material and render. small_orange_diamond
Hey Rick
It looks like this may be the grid causing the issue. Go to the Draw palette and change your Grid S to see if that takes care of it.
Paul
Love the rat. Pixologic should get you to do a demo for their FiberMesh; you seem to be getting the best results of anyone out there!
Super cool rat!!
I would think its the grid size. Draw>grid s…make the grid/floor larger to catch more of the shadows.