My Dragon Model

[The Great Dragon]

After months of sculpting and refining and about 5 different models and countless textures, here it is...
(drum roll until you click)

[Inkwolf]

Looks cool, G.D.! Gonna animate it? :)

[The Great Dragon]

Yeah, I'm going to make a movie with 6 speaking dragons and about 50 extra dragons, so I'm going to need a more powerful computer to handle the rendering, or maybe a rendering farm. It isn't finished, I still have to do some more texturing, and I have to do the mouth and throat before I can start rigging.
:cool:

[The Great Dragon]

Scratched that model. Look at this one!

[Inkwolf]

That's pretty cool! :)

[The Great Dragon]

Thanks. Have you ever done CGI?

[Inkwolf]

Only a little bit. Modelling was a bit too frustrating and complicated for me.

[The Great Dragon]

What software? I use 3ds Max. Pretty user-friendly.

[Inkwolf]

3DS Max is hellishly expensive, and not available on Macintosh, I think.

I started out with...um....Ray-something. Can't remember the name. From the people who made Poser and Bryce n stuff. Then I got Pixels 3D, which was easier to use, but I didn't use it much anyway. Finally, recently, I tried out CBModel Pro, which is super-easy, but my computer wasn't really fully up to processor requirements.

In any case, I don't really have much I want to do in 3D anymore, now that the mystique has worn off. Bryce is enough to occasionally set up scenes for me, when I want it.

Anyway, I find it fun to putter with 3D occasionally, but 2D is where I live.

[The Great Dragon]

Yeah, I was lucky. I got Max for free!

You can get Max 8 for only around 100 bucks, and as soon as Max 10 comes out, 9 will be that price.

I love making dragon models. I've done, like, 10 models that you haven't seen.

[Magnus]

3DS Max, at least the commercial license, costs thousands of dollars...just out of curiosity, where did you find Max 8 for $100?

Anyway I use 3DS Max too, for my 3D stuff. It's such a powerful program! I disagree that it's user-friendly; I've lost a lot of hair over that program. But Max and I have a love-hate relationship. And now that Autodesk bought out Maya, maybe they'll combine Max and Maya into something new that can run on Macintosh...*crosses fingers*

Anyway that dragon model looks pretty cool! Congrats on all the work you've done so far...I bet the final product will be a sight to see!

[The Great Dragon]

My dad is a computer guru and 3ds Max 8 is now considered and "older version" of Max. If you do enough digging, you can find almost any program for 100 or less. I would recommend newegg.com. Good deals.

Well, in the user friendly part, I'm only twelve years old - look at my creation! On the other hand, I've been using Max around three years now.