I'm totally with ReNo here. Body looked better before, wing's an improvement.
Dragon Character - wip
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well before the shoulder was fine because it had a cartoony look and the anatomy was forgivable. now it just looks messy and the uv mapping makes it worse ://
the texturing is getting better all the time though.
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well....at least your all honest
. I know the UV mapping has issues, and the body never changed, only the texture changed. Sorry you didn't like the color 
Artician over at cgtalk gave me some good suggestions that Im going to use. I'll post another pic later tonight.
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I found some ingame dragons for world of warcraft and Lineage II.
In Lineage II the dragons don't have scales
http://lineage2.free.fr/screenshoot/05/ ... agon_9.jpg
http://lineage2.free.fr/screenshoot/05/ ... gon_17.jpg
The World of Warcraft dragon has scales.
http://www.starbabie.com/beta/images/dragon_2.jpg
http://www.starbabie.com/beta/images/dragon_3.jpg
Here's this afternoons texture try
[Blocked Image: http://www.lee3dee.com/redux/Dragon/texture_wing06.jpg]
I talked to a hardcore D&D buddy, who said that since its a mythical creature, the skin could either be scales, lizard skin or whatever. I just need to find one that will look cool in a volcano setting.
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Digging that style of dragon. Wings could be more veiny though.
The feet and neck look really nice in your new texture, good stuff.
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yeah i liked that dragon too, be cool to be able to fly a dragon in a game. I know in FFXI, you can have a pet dragon as the dragoon class. But, i stayed with white mage
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cool stuff
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By the way i looked at the whole thing again and i think your main problem is not the technical side (you're doing well), but the body. It looks kinda cute, if you think away the wings it reminds me of a guinea pig a bit hehe. I'd make it a bit thinner at the chest and ass, raise it up from it's feet a bit and add a tail. Now the ass looks a bit weird.
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last pic looks really nice.
gj!
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hmmm those teeth. i think you could get away with just an alpha tex, and save a LOT of polies. also they're so thin and sparse.. that's not really how teeth grow, even when they are sharp and nasty and interleave when the mouth is closed, they tend to be pretty closely grouped and densely packed at the gum. if you really want to individually articulate the teeth like that i would 1) use fewer polies ;x and 2) expand the bases so they come closer to meeting each other. right now they look more like a comb.
the texture is good. i would work on making the various regions of skin and flesh more distinct and interesting. as it is now it's so consistent, when you can look at a good dragon illustration or pictures of real wildlife and see all kinds of local variation.. you know, differing kinds of scales or flesh. (not just lava splotches
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New body is looking pretty good, though what is with the big black splotches on the tail? As gins said, the teeth look kinda odd. Makes me think more of a snake-esque creature than a dragon, though perhaps the tongue plays a part in that as well
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tail hasn't been textured yet
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I'm pretty much happy with the colors and layout. still have some UV problems to address and I haven't welded the 2 sides together yet. Also, made the butt come in a little more. Texturing the tail at the moment.
current progress:
[Blocked Image: http://www.lee3dee.com/redux/Dragon/texture_body03.jpg]
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That is a cool dragon. Damn good job.
edit: Maybe its just me, but i would prefer a more yellow worn texture instead of white on the claws and the teeth and thorns and stuff.
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too cartoony for me but nice anyways
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I really like it all. Teeth need to be just a bit brighter, and a bit bigger yet shorter. It desperately needs a tail though so i'm really looking forward to what you've done for that
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Quote from von*ferret
too cartoony for me but nice anyways
hahaha its a render using GI, i changed it back to hardware render.
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got an email from a friend asking for my demo reel. LOL....So since im in transition making new stuff, I finished up the dragon tonight. I pretty happy with the final version. He is rigged, should I ever want to go back and do some animation
Wireframe
[Blocked Image: http://www.lee3dee.com/redux/Dragon/dragon_wire.jpg]
Shaded
[Blocked Image: http://www.lee3dee.com/redux/Dragon/dragon_shade.jpg]
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