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Oh I see. You are a Blender man now. I don't know how you manage to learn so much.

I bought a few new apps, but don't find time to check them.

Someone told me "time is like toothpaste, if you press the tube

there is always a few coming out of it"...

Can't wait to see your new creations!

Wave of light, you are too fast. I bet your sculpt is done in a few days!

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Thanks! The "Nippon" style was not my aim, but you are right. It's more close to an Oriental thing.

I just wanted to make a nice dragon like the one you can see in Skyrim, but with different shapes.

Those in Skyrim are Wyvern though... No forward legs.

The details on the sculpt are still very rough (seen from a certain distance, you can't probably notice).

It needs a brush up in the very end.

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Wave of light, you are too fast. I bet your sculpt is done in a few days!

Well thanks, because it's usually the other way round (e.g. the Lancaster took ages and ages and ages). Had to take a break this weekend, family stuff, but I'll be back on to it this week.

Really looking forward to seeing yours finished. You still in voxel or you moved on to surface mode?

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Yes, but you had a scenery with your Lancaster, and a lighting to set.

The dragon is still in voxel mode. I was going from voxel to surface, then going back to voxel in the beginning;

but I changed my workflow because you often loose definition when going back to voxel.

I keep surface mode work for the very end.

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Yeah, I had a look at bat wings before adding them on the dragon.

The bones are too thick and simple. It is just blocking phase.

Of course, it would never fly because the body is too massive.

But, I'll focus on the design balance more than on the Newton reality facts.

There was an animation movie Tv program when I was a kid in wich they explained

why dragons could fly even with huge body and quite small wings.

Of course! Dragons have gas in their body that enable them to levitate.

With a little kind of electric crystal inside their mouth, they can burn the gas

to go down, and that's where their flames came from.

The animation (80's):

I found it quite good when I was a kid. But you can say anything about them

because they don't exists. I guess middle age men believed in them after

discovering dinosaur skelton... :)

Bats have less bones, but it looked weak with only a few bones.

It didn't use "fill inside", but just a primitive square that I cuted.

Is "fill inside" handy in this case?

I think I'm gonna use the small wings version because they look more dynamic.

Not really sure though.

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I think the dragon wings are based more on the the Elliptical Wing which yours are. The dragon wing might be a reverse elliptical wing but I think the principle is the same. The muscles and bones that attach the wing to the body would be very strong indeed.

The wings are wide so provide lots of lift for soaring, Yes, it takes more power to get airborne but dragons have very powerful muscles. I think a dragon soars more and is not a darter but waits for the chance to pounce upon it's prey like most predatory animals. In the long chase he would lose but in a short diving attack he will be the winner...

Nice workmanship...

Also elliptical wings help to bring home that heavy dinner for the kiddie dragons... :rofl:

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Digman, Carlosa,

Thanks for the messages and references!

I see you both like dragons. I think I'm gonna redo the wings.

The actual trial just don't fit with the body style + the bones doesn't

look like a "stretched" arm; it just look like a... like an umbrella.

The sub-bones shouldn't all start from exactly the same joint. And

the curved sub-bones would be nicer with a slightly different curve aspect.

I like the red wing ref, even if I wouldn't put a membrane between "hand" and shoulder

in the forward part.

Thanks a lot again.

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Sing this to your wife, "Mary, Mary quite contrary. How does your garden grow?" Then ask her what she could possibly admire in those PVC pipes used earlier.

That is a really fine dragon and deserves animation (altough I would prefer to see more taper in the tail).

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Tony Nemo > Ha ha! I bet my wife wouldn't understand this old song. It is about Mary Queen of Scots, right?

That's a completely different song, but I like "To France" from Mike Oldfield and Maggie O'Reilly. Do you know it?

Michalis > I didn't know this Durer carving. Wonderfull work! Reminds me a bit of Hokusai animals studies.

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Wow! Hokusai! When in Japan in the mid-fifties, I bought 100 views of Fugi pus a large selection of Utamaro and Hiroshige Ukiyo-e. They were very cheap then as the dollar was king. It turned me on to wood block prints, which I produced quite a few.

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Hokusai! (among other, older japanese masters)

I'll never forget a great exhibition in athens national-gallery. Many many years ago. I own a nice catalog-book, still admiring these masterpieces.

But, Dürer never saw such art. He also loved watercolors, engraving on wood etc. It happens, sometimes.

Van Gogh, yes, he did see them. It's obvious and well known.

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The train from Yokusuka to Tokyo wasn't a bullet train then and I was startled to see the great stone Buddha at Ofuna gazing out from behind some low hills which gave it a really massive scale. The land around was all open rice fields with a few houses in Ofuna. Namu Amida Butsu.

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