Just doodling. What do think of this

What do think of this, been working on this for about the last 5 day.
Just to get It to this stage.

Modeled and animated In 3DS Max & rendered in Vray.

It took some doing to get It looking this way, so much footering about with tiny little bits.
And this is only the beginning.

Getting the toes to look this way, and go the way you want was a nightmare.
But thankfully that part is dun now, and a lesson well learned.

http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w...us/meck-01.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w...us/meck-02.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w...us/meck-03.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w...us/meck-04.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w...us/meck-05.jpg

That looks clever to me, however I don't know much about this stuff. So I don't really know how much is software and how much is talent.

3DS Max costs about ₤3500 or Dollars, and that's just the base program.
Not including all the Plugins, can cost hundreds of Pounds or Dollars depending where you stay.
And there are thousands of different Plugins, good and bad.

So does it do most of the work for you or do you still have to have some artistic ability to use it.

Yes.

As the saying goes. Practice makes perfect.
I've been doing this stuff on/off, for a couple of years now.
Been slowly getting better doing varies tutorials.

Well trying to figure out the bones would make me go mental, so I think it's quite good.

Don't see the point of the Vray renderer though, if you haven't finished modelling, like.

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Originally Posted by Chip Monk

So does it do most of the work for you or do you still have to have some artistic ability to use it.

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It requires ability, like, I've got it and gave up after five minutes of playing with it.

Plus it took like a year to render one image.

edit: it's not like art skills as in painting like, more 3d model making.

It's just what's set to default, and that's Vray.

That's odd. I would have thought the default renderer would have been set as default.

If you know your way around 3DS Max.
Go into the Render Scene Dialog Box, click common. Scroll down, to assign renderer.
There are 3 boxes, use the top 2 boxes.
You can assign any renderer you what. If you have It installed that Is

At one point I did have Finalrender Installed, Max nearly had a nervous breakdown.
It didn't work right from when I first Installed It, I will try again sometime but for the time being I stick to Vray.

The only 3D program i have managed to handle is Sketchup - http://sketchup.google.com/
very easy.

Maybe something for Snee..it will probably remember from which direction and how many suns are shining..or was that SnnY?

Still an expensive toy :)