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DavidHakobian — Abyssinian Creature
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Published: 2010-10-29 14:47:29 +0000 UTC; Views: 2340; Favourites: 58; Downloads: 66
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So this is supposed to be some kind of strange sea animal living in the greatest depths of the oceans and hunting in dark, cold waters. It's like a hybrid of a jellyfish, an octapus and the Vampire squid.The spiky ball on the lower right corner of the image is supposed to be a Puffy fish, which has already deployed his defence mechanism...
Tools: Adobe Photoshop CS5 & Trust TB-6300 Slimline Design Tablet
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i LOVE vampire squid and deep sea creatures! this is fun to look at
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Thank you! Btw, your drawings are so cute!
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haha youre welcome and thanks :3
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Thank you very very much! hehe...
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wow, that's a great artwork... really feel the creepy sensational when you're deep down the ocean and met some couple of strange animals you've never seen. But still, sharks are the worst nightmare for me
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Thank you, I'm glad to hear that! 
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Really Awesome Composition. Would be perfect for a CD Cover. A Bound to be Famous one!
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CD cover? Hmm...I hadn't thought of that...it ain't a bad idea!
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It's the perfect square too that hints at it. Very original though! I love the girl's digital painting too. Great tablet work!
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Many thanks!! 
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Thank you! It's more than flattering to hear that.
The rendering is done either in Cinema4D or HyperShot. The former is much more robust and capable as far as texturing, lighting, rendering & animation. HyperShot is a very expensive and fairly tiny program. It's power and value lies in the "Real Time Rendering" it provides but it also has some nice preset environments and shaders. Most of my robot's were rendered in HyperShot cuz of strict deadlines.
Cinema4D is also really nice with the ease of use and learning curve while providing very powerful industry standard 3D tools and incredibly fast rendering system.
Hope it helps
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Thank you so much for all these informations!! They are more than helpful!!
Now with all the data that you provided me, at least I have a clue from where to start! 
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Sure Thing. Each program has it's strengths. ZBrush is for sculpting. Rhino is more for mechanical & Some organic modeling. etc.. good luck .
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My first thought when I saw this was "vampire squid?" Dumb marine bio project...
Love the soft blend of colors you did on the mollusk thing (and the pufferfish is so cute!) gives the scene a nice feeling of ambience...
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Hehe...thank you for you comment!
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The puffer fish is ADORABLE! I love how you made the squid thing look so real!
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Yeah it came out cute-looking haha...The squid thing was the first thing I drew and I spent more time on that, than the rest of the picture, so I'm really glad that you find it realistic-looking!
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Yeah it does look very realistic, you know how deep sea creatures have that sort of translucent sheen to them but also look velvettey, you got that right and if anyone looked at this from afar they could think it was a photo...
Yeah it is!
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Your avatar is one of the funniest and cutest that I've seen here on dA! 
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Aw why thank you, it was made by there's a folder there with free avatars people can use, I was browsing through it and had to have it, it just cracked me up too much
You're welcome!
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swim away puffy fish, swim away!!
great piece by the way x3
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wonderful piece of work. i like the evolution going on here with like the best of each animal
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Thank you for your comment, I'm glad you like it.
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