Hocus Pocus Studio has released a breakdown of the dragon produced for the short file The Food Chain. It features some impressive muscle work inside 3DS Max created using custom in-house tools. Watch it on Vimeo.
Hocus Pocus Studio’s The Food Chain breakdown
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I’d say “it features some muscle work inside 3DS Max” instead of “some IMPRESIVE” as the result is rather poor an unrealistic. Does it jiggle? for sure. is it realistic? far from that.
Well, the original video is ok until you see the dragon (a wyvern is a kind of dragon, anyway). The animations still have quite a lot of room for improvement, but I can imagine it’s a small studio and did that in their down time between projects.
However, Clovis’ work is generally amazing, so keep going!
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