Need White Dragon image help

[sabrinathecat]

Here's the first image that I was looking for.

 

[sabrinathecat]

Anyone interested in my progress:
Here are some renders of the skin.
Now I just have to rig the bones, joints, and controllers. Problem is, the instructions I have are for a humanoid, so I'm going to have a lot of trial&error. Very time consuming.

When I have more to show you, you'll see it here.

 

[Lwaxy]

Amazing. It's a female, I'd say!

 

[sabrinathecat]

"How do you tell? I mean, what sex a dragon is?"
"You could try asking. Very Politely."
--- I think the book was called Enchanter by Bailey.
I think I have the rig and controls 99% working. Now just a matter of binding the skin to the joints--seriously PITA (pain in the patutie)

 

[Lwaxy]

She's Snowstar. Probably sounds a lot more complicated in the common tongue though And now i need to make an adventure with a white dragon in it.

 

[Aeolius]

You could always rifle through the Dragon models at DAZ 3D to see if there is something you could modify.

 

[sabrinathecat]

Where's the fun in using someone else's model? The whole point was to build my own.
And at this point, it's a matter of weight-painting (assigning the polys&nodes to the joints I want them to respond to--not always the nearest).
And hoping the rig doesn't break somewhere along the way.

 

[sabrinathecat]

Time for some updates.
Have the rig done.
Now I'm trying to weight-paint (attach the vertexes to the correct joints in the correct proportion). Does not help that the tools do not work as advertised.
Anyway.

 

[Lwaxy]

*pets Snowstar*

You are going to be one beautiful dragon.

 

[sabrinathecat]

SnowStar still needs a lot of weight-painting, but here's a preview. Wings are about 1/3 set, and most of the back is now attached properly. Still tons of work to do.