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First I need to say, since this is my first 3D animation i still havent figured out how to get it full quality in a flash movie. 2nd, the creatures eyes were originaly supposed to glow, but after 17 hours of rendering when I found out the glow had been turned off I decided to leave it as is and post. Someday I might fix that.

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Score: 6

"Great! But a bit dark"

by: Rykuro

date: June 24, 2007

If this took 17 hours to render, I'm assuming you applied either final gather, global illumination or a mix of both; which, while making it look good, are a bit useless if the scene is too dark.

The modelling/texturing is pretty good, and the animation is very smooth, but a few omni lights (not sure what the maya term for them is) scattered around, or perhaps a general raise in ambient light, would help loads.

Author's Response:

Oh yeah, I used Ray Tracing to get the active shadows and reflections. Also theres alot of bump mapping. As for the light, it looked brighter on the macs at my school, but when I got the file on my pc I was like,,.. CRAP! Oh well, next time I think Ima save my self some trouble and make a daytime scene.