other My first real max model (a dragon)

[AntonF]

Hello everybody!
I began working with 3dsm a short while ago and I wanted to show my first real model, it's an assignment from school. I would like to know what you think about it, what is good and what can be improved?

[Jelmer]

Looks cool! welcome to the community, so.. there's still some room for improvement of course! Modeling is pretty solid, but you should spend some more time on lighting and shading this!

First of all change the lighting angle a bit, right now it's pretty much behind the camera, which results in bad lighting most of the time.
Then I would try one of the lighting tutorials to understand lighting better, and definitely add some bump maps to those textures!

[geldslaw]

it was too dark for my monitor but seemed that it would look really good with some more lighting. Nice work, welcome to the community

[DAKLOL]

I think the castle makes the scene look strange, recheck your proportions, if you were trying to make the dragon seem bigger, imagine a person and the scale of the stuff around him, it makes the castle look small. Also, lighting could use some improvment, are you going for a night scene?

[AntonF]

Thanks for the really fast answers!
And yes as daklol said, my intentions were to make a night scene with
moonlight and some light from the torches. Anyone know any way to make the fire look more realistic by the way? I made them using pArray, is there a better way?

[NinjaHanzo]

good job....
thou i think the door makes the scale of the casle look a tad small
those torches could use some down-sizing if you want the scale of the castle look big...

about the fire... i'd think you'd better do that in post.. in photoshop
or if you have a plug-in like Fume FX or Afterburn

anyway.. looks good.. good model too