The Space Turtle » H.P. Lovecraft http://www.thespaceturtle.com Entertaining Fiction, and turtles. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:13:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The Snowggoth – An Icy Winter Monster, And It’s Right Next To Me! http://www.thespaceturtle.com/the-snowggoth-an-icy-winter-monster-and-its-right-next-to-me/ http://www.thespaceturtle.com/the-snowggoth-an-icy-winter-monster-and-its-right-next-to-me/#comments Tue, 29 Dec 2009 04:01:20 +0000 Chivalrybean http://www.thespaceturtle.com/?p=248 To decorate Turtle Beach for winter I ventured out to make my first real Second Life building project. I wanted to make an icy, snowy creature rising from the sea and climbing onto the beach. While it looks nothing like I originally intended, I am really happy with the result. This is what I created, the Snowggoth!:

Snowggoth

The tentacles are sculpted tree limbs Trill gave me. I resized them and they stopped looking so much like tree limbs.

Everything else I made from scratch. The body is spheres. I just fiddled with the settings and learned about what kinds of things I could do. Then I put a bunch together and moved them around.

The eyes were easy to make, a sphere inside a hollow sphere slit open. Those are my favorite part. I made three versions of them and scattered them about.

The maw was the hardest part to get to look right. I tried all kinds of things and ended up with two round plates, see through with a black water sprite with a motion script in them. I have them going in different directions to give the illusion of depth. I think it works pretty good. I’m pretty happy with it overall, and really a whole lot better then I thought I’d end up with. Next year I should know sculpting a lot better so I can make it even better.

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