In this multi-part series, I’ll be covering how to box-model a stylized dragon, making heavy use of the various sculpt tools. The texturing will cover creating tangent normal maps and using the “toon shader” to get a nice cel-shaded look. I’ll also go into some intermediate rigging with some nice animations; from walking to pouncing to flying. and finally we’ll look into setting up a good composition with props and lighting.
In this eighth part, we go ahead and apply the rig to the model, and clean up some of the auto-weight painting on the head. I show you a few tips on the cloth sim, but ultimately, we stick with the original weight painting. I play with a couple of different poses, then I append the tower and perch ol’ Quaid on the top in a nice ferocious roaring pose.
You have made my day.
You have made my day.
If u put to the background some good picture, it can be really good picture for blender.org archive
And thanks for your series! I will renew subscription soon.
this series is truly amazing u have been one of the best teachers
Nice series Dave i really like it
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Just a thought about the wings webbing issue, i once saw in a video that you could make shapekeys work by using the bone as a driver. sorry i dont know how to express that correctly but what you could do is make a shape key that makes the wings webbings rise and then be driven by the wing bones, so that when you close the wing the webbings rise automatically. Sorry i just cant explain it properly but im sure it can be done
Anyways thanks for the tut.
Cool tutorial – thanks!
A quick tip on the Track-To Camera rotation roblem: If you enable ‘Target Z’ in the Track-To Constraint you can control the Camera’s rotation by rotating the Empty along it’s Local X and Y axes. =)
Also, maybe it would be fun to use some Instances Particles to create some debris falling off the tower from where he’s holding it.
Lastly, I agree with Garret; watching him spew fire would be cool. I don’t think there’s a good video tutorial on how to make fire-effects with the smoke sim yet either.
Looking forward to the next part! =)
you can visit cgtuts.com there is some good tuts about fire here is the link http://cg.tutsplus.com/?s=Introduction+to+Smoke%2FFire+Simulation+in+Blender+2.5+
Now he needs fire:)
http://cg.tutsplus.com/author/gottfried-hofmann/
Hey thank you so much for these you guys are the best!!!
Hey Dave great stuff, as always I really enjoy and learn a lot from these tuts.
Something I’ve learned from Jonathan though : don’t use empties to target your camera, Instead just use the cursor. And change the pivot to focus on the cursor. It makes focusing a camera on still shots a hundred times easier.
Later,
Nice tut
Can’t wait for part 9.
thx David
Thanks.Your tuts are great.!!!
hi I have a question I have follow your jhony blender tut I learn the walk cycle I want to apply the strait bone to blender 2.5 and I cant, and other problem when I want to edit curve of the follow path to adjust the speed I couldn’t because it doesn’t want to show up so please can you help me and thank you for the tuts
hi I have something speed your workflow when you want to turn on normal in the manipulation you can heat the access twice and it well turn to normal automatically
hi guys, just a quick heads-up.. the link to “part 7″ is not linked properly?
http://www.blendercookie.com/2010/08/07/series-creating-a-stylized-dragon-part-7/
cheers
Thanks for the heads on up on this and edited
The video doesn’t seem to be playing and when I right click then watch on Vimeo, on that site, it said page not found, is the same from part 8-10
go here to watch it since the embedded video is not working
http://vimeo.com/14311679
can you do a tutorial on a realistic dragon? It’d be most aprieciated.