Angler FIsh update 3

Lee McCartney
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Ive now added a omni light with a glow lens effect to give the fish its bioluminesence lure. To create the effect I first placed the omni light, then expanded the 'atmosphere & effects' modifier and clicked 'add'. I then chose 'Lens Effects' and clicked setup. I set the lens effect to 'glow' and adjusted the paramenters until i was happy with the effect.



 
I noticed I had a shadow being cast on the top of the head from the glow I created. This was caused by a sphere i had at the top of the lure, as the glow was hiding the sphere there was no reason for it to be there. So I removed the sphere and the shadow was no longer being cast, as shown in the last image.

I have decided to start to model my next deep sea creature and return to my angler fish once I have developed my 3DS Max skills further. I still need to work on the materials of the fins and the inside of the mouth.

4 comments:

scoobster17 said...

That fish is amazing mate, it really is.

The lighting is superb. Bit cheeky though not having to do a background!

5 November 2009 at 11:23
Paulees said...

i cant see if yu hae used a texture under the uvw map but on my turtle i have used a bump map with cellular to create the raised bits on the fins with a smaller size you might be able to create scales for the fish

5 November 2009 at 14:38
GJ0012 said...

I'm liking the texture and the light it makes the hole thing like real and I would not like to be in the sea with one of them lol. Good work

18 November 2009 at 09:12
Rachel said...

Im so impressed by this! The teeth must have taken you ages. All of your designs look very difficult. I would have never set myself the task of making anything as complecated as this.

10 December 2009 at 11:06

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