Viscous by ronviers

thanks.. Whats cool about FF is that a lot of what I've learned over time from surfaceing in lightwave carries over very well. Setting up procedural textures is very much the same thing.

Probably a lot more components to choose from in maya.. Learning is what its all about.. well that and having fun with it too.. Going to school for maya? I know lightwaves layout fairly well but am still grasping polygon modeling.. My modeler of choice is Rhino..

Thats pretty much how I've learned what I know. I was looking through voldemorts filters and there are quite a few snippets in there..

that should keep me busy for a while.. thanks.

I like the richness of color and reflections of the first one

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ronviers wrote: Do you think I maintained the clown look or should I call it something else?

I think the clown thing is gone now

Personally, I would suggest doing a little more curve work and turn the form of the first two samples into faces.....by adding different eyes and mouths. The head shape and ears are already perfect

I would do it to create all kinds of different faces.....from devils.....to evil clowns.....aliens.....transformers.......you name it......and I think people would definitely use it alot. It also wouldn't take much work to add head and ear shape controls on it

Hey, you have a new challenge here.....get lifetime upgrades, eh???

Why are you wasting time typing??? You have filter work to do!!! LMAO....

Here it is with the new look

And this menacing helmet look

These do look like clowns right? Please tell me they look like clowns.

Well, they do look cool.....especially the 2nd and 4th of the last ones posted

You too

i've been playing with this filter in the editor; obviously not the new stuff yet unpublished, but the original. you've got a lot of potential in this one and i love the new direction you've added. but, dont overlook some of the other possibilities here. going back to the original, you have a number of looks there that can be explored, shields, coat of arms, trophies, vases, various shapes, and more. the first part of the filter, up to and including the refraction, is where the potential is mostly. i've spent the last hour or so playing and gotten all sorts of interesting shapes out of this thing

Thanks Carl, Kraellin and StevieJ
Sorry I missed you Carl; I would not want to see a car sporting a grill like this running up on me in my rear view mirror. These would make some pretty intimidating avatars.
Kraellin I agree there are so many directions this could go; I had been dying to get back to this one ever since my trial expired so no surprise that this is where I picked up. The latest mods are clumsy and can certainly be tightened up later. Thanks for looking inside
Steve I wish I could have pulled off better eyes and mouths but don't count me out yet - I will come back to it when I have some better ideas and get better.

Amazing colors are a dime a dozen with this one. Not my doing - it's all FF.

some very cool looks here. love the last two. but please, play with the shape more!

So shiny and glowy...

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ronviers wrote: You *must* click on them to view them... it's worth it

I did and it is fantastic colours

It looks really good.

Hi Ron, I'm ok, my bones have been a real pain the last few days so I've just been resting. I think today I can actually do something in FF.

I'm getting ready to send my computers to the shop for cleaning and to get some RAM installed in about two weeks and need to burn everything off my drives first. I don't want to leave all my stuff on them for some kid in the shop to copy.

I am looking forward to trying this out.