He actually looks like the Leviathan in Final Fantasy IV's DS Version of when you surf across the ocean on the boat and you see his silhouette attack your ship, 'causin' you to lose Rydia and causin' Yang to jump into the ocean after her.

This is a very well done model. +Fave.

That is awsome, and only your 4th attmpt??? Even better! Love it <3

Thanks.

Just because it's from FFVIII, I am faving this into next week.

...VII has nothing on the Lionheart. *Cough*

I was almost going to comment "Aren't you mixing up Leviathan with Quetzalcoatl", but then I remembered something and had to check it... When I had FF8 as a kid, I renamed the summons for some stupid reason... And guess what? I renamed Leviathan as Quetzalcoatl and Quetzalcoatl as Leviathan.

God I was such an idiot as a kid :'D

Anyhow, a very good looking 3D model, overall. Would love to see more movement animation done to it, than a simple 360 degree spin. 8)

Actually I wanted to include the animation test as well, but FA only allows a 10Mb limit, so unfortunately the full-shader version is all I can put in.

How about uploading to YouTube?
Then just provide a link to it, in the description.

I'll see what I can do~

..beautiful ;.=.;

Thank you.

Ooooooooooooh, shine~y ♥

That would be the Specular Mapping doing its work

WOW I like using 3D.
what kind 3D are you using?
I wanna learn like you did.^^

I used Autodesk 3ds Max 2010 and zBrush 3.1

I would love to collect those kind of figures. They're awesome.

Haha, if only I could render this into reality

Really great job on the rendering koru! Simply amazing!

Can you teach me how to do stuff like this too? :)

Sure but I'm still learning myself, so it might not be easy ^^a

But still. Any tips or instruction you can give me would still prove invaluable. :)

I thought it looked like a GF when I first looked at it. >w>

That's very impressive and decently detailed. ^w^

I could totally see this in a game. Great Work, keep it up!

Gee, thanks!

I can see the seams on that model, you should be more careful careful next time. Also I can see the texture smearing around the folds of his arms, you should also watch out for that.

Other than that I would really wanna see this guy rigged and move around. This probably one of the best low poly models that I've seen :3.

What was the process of how you did this? Did you start off in Maya then do texturing on 3DM?

Yay, some constructive criticism! Thank you.
Yeah, I was frustrated about the arm too. No matter how much I fiddled with the UVW Map, it always turned out black. I'm guessing some of the topography was off. Too lazy to correct it at that moment :P

Actually everything was done with 3ds Max from start to finish, except for the color & texture mappings which were done in Photoshop and zBrush.

Personally I try to mix between Maya and 3DM. For the arm, I was taught that to avoid that sort of issue, you want some more edge loops, that way it eases on the stress of the model and it helps with texture smearing.

3DM is really good for a lot of things, but Maya has a lot to offer as well. The smoothing brush really helps "erase" the seam of the model.

On a personal note, one thing that is bothering me about the texture is how plastic it seems. I would really invest some time in skin shaders or adjusting the transluceny of the material.

What kind of renderer did you use?

Thanks for the tip.

There were some limitations on this project given by the professor that prevented us fro using the program's full potential such as limited amounts of triangles, limited amount of mappings, and we were only allowed the Default Scanline Renderer. But despite all that, I must confess, I didn't put much effort into this piece because I was really sick of all the 3D assignments back then :P

About Maya, we were never taught about it (yeah, everyone questions the curriculum too), so I'm still completely alien to it. I'll probably try it someday when I have spare time.

Yay, some constructive criticism! Thank you.
Yeah, I was frustrated about the arm too. No matter how much I fiddled with the UVW Map, it always turned out black. I'm guessing some of the topography was off. Too lazy to correct it at that moment :P

Actually everything was done with 3ds Max from start to finish, except for the color & texture mappings which were done in Photoshop and zBrush.

Blah, I hate myself

Care to expand on this?

Care to expand on this?

Ohhhh I so wish I had that model in my collection of critters!

I use Cinema4D though.

+Fav. I can never get enough of Final Fantasy Leviathan art.

Pretty damn good, as it hapens =O)

Best 3d yet of it i like it. shows the real look of him when he appears. feels like i am right up close to him. Best boss i have faced. I have seen many versions of him but this is the best. *I am kinda going out of sequence... heheh*