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Stegosaurus – Concept to Completion

February 17th, 2009 4 Comments »

A quick glance at our first dinosaur model for Dinosauria, the lone Jurassic dinosaur of the bunch, Stegosaurus! (for full size images, click on the thumbnails)

First, we conceptualize the shape and colors:

stegosaur-views-sm

After iterating on the concept image, we model the high-poly version, which we will use to create a normal map:

side_estegosaurio

Then we break that down to the low-poly version:

stegosaurus_lowpoly_wip_for

Then we paint the texture and apply the normal map. The Stegosaurus is ready for the game! (at 2177 tris):

stegosaurus 02

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4 Responses to “Stegosaurus – Concept to Completion”

  1. Timothy Aste Says:
    February 17th, 2009 at 5:13 pm

    Nice looking dino!

  2. Metalraptor Says:
    February 24th, 2009 at 6:24 am

    I thought you might like to know that Stegosaurus has recently been discovered to have bony ossicles covering its throat region. These ossicles probably allowed Stegosaurus to browse in thickets of thorny vegetation, or to get at the cones of cycads encased in their thorny leaves. Great colors by the way.

  3. Andy Schatz Says:
    February 24th, 2009 at 8:50 am

    Oooh, interesting, thanks! I love this kind of feedback. I’ll try to get it in there, though we might not be able to since we’ve pretty much locked this one down.

  4. Aelaer Says:
    March 28th, 2009 at 1:16 pm

    Amazing. Lovely job!

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