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Published: 2012-06-16 04:37:40 +0000 UTC; Views: 2103; Favourites: 30; Downloads: 96
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Sugestions and critisism is appreciated.A model of the giant european catfish. It can get very old and weigh severall hundred kg (unless the idiots kill them). It is a nocturnal predator with a voracious apetite. It is also called the Wels catfish or Silurus glanis in latin.
Everything modelled and rendered in Carrara 8.5. The textures were made in Gimp.
I upgraded the image according to suggestions. Now with more realistic leaves and with a displacement map on the log.
I f you want any of the models, just ask.
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In my country (netherlands) a catfish that was 2,56 meters was caught, and released back into the wild
ALSO LOOK AT ATS LITTLE EYESES
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That is impressive. Did they weigh it too?
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Yes, but Iβve forgotten how much. It was even on the news and all over the media!
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Well, in fact they do not reach several hundred kg. Sadly you can read this very often, but itΒ΄s nothing but big fish stories. The very largest specimens ever confirmed weighed around 150 kg, but this were exceptional freaks. Normally even more than 100 kg is unusually huge.
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Well, I have an official but quite old record fom Sweden of 180 kg. There are two more records above 100 kg too. Sweden is at the northern extreme of the range so I'd be surprised if not at least 200 kg were possible. It says 400 kg in Wikipedia...
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There are always old stories of bigger specimens, but this is more a cultural phenoman than a biologcal. Silurus glanis is a species which grows best in warm water, for this reason the largest specimens come mainly form its southern distribution area, especially from countries in Southern Europe like Italy, Spain and Greece where it was introduced. So itΒ΄s especially unlikely to find giant specimens in Sweden, where the species is nearly extinct anyway.
And this alleged 400 kg (or sometimes a bit more)are sadly cited again and again, but there is no reason to believe in this data. This weight was given for an alleged specimen of around 4,5 m, what would be anyway totally out of proportion, as a wels of this length would weigh two times as much at least. The original source is also extremely dubious, and itΒ΄s really quite strange that there is not one single confirmed specimen on record which exceeded 300 cm, what would be extremely strange if this species would have the potential to grow more than 4,5 m in length.
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This is great, modeled in Carrara - I did not know it could produce props like this. Well done, especially the work you've done on the tree.
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Thanks, Cararra is pretty versatile. Not as expensive and advanced as Maya but much more reasonably priced and sort of intuitive.
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I love, love, love this image. I was stunned first and read your words later, only to discover that it was created in my favorite software. I love what you've done with textures and lighting here and I would love to know more about how it was done. You are offering the models for those who asked, but may I ask for the scene file so that I may learn from it? If you would not mind me asking some questions through e-mail, please let me know, my e-mail is same as my nickname here only without the last "N" at gmail . com
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I am glad for the praise from such an accomplished artist. I checked you gallery briefly but I'll come back to it again and look more carefully later, ther is a lot of stuff in there!Catfish is "mal" in Swedish if you wonder about the filename when I send it.
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This work looks really great and realistic 
As I know you request a critiques, so here's a little things from me about this one:
- Leaves are quite bright in colour and uniform, as they may lay on the bottom of the lake for a while they might have some signs of decay (colour and holes)
- It's visible that you've used only bump map for the tree stump when you look at the bottom left corner. As it's only a still image - not animation you could make contour of the tree more rough by overpainting in GIMP.
Anyway - that's a very good job!
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Thanks for kind words. I know that the leaves suck. I got tired and lost patience. Superrealistic rotten leaves in the pipeline, hope fully they don't get stuck.
As for the log, I had even made a displacement map and then forgot about it! We'll se if I can get it right when I upgrade the leaves.
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Very amazing. I know I'm repeating others but this looks so real, bravo.
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Thank you! And don't be shy about repeating, keep it coming
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Excellent work , looks just like a photograph, real nice lighting. 5 out of 5 from me.Congrats.
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Thank you!I am glad to hear that.
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a very large population is present in the SaΓ΄ne and the Seille rivers in France
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I am glad to hear that (and thanks for liking the picture). I hope fishing is not allowed. Here in Sweden it is a bit on the cold side and they are very rare but they are coming back quite nicely after some environmental disasters during the 60-ies and 70-ies.
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fishing is allowed because it is an very invasive species, they damage the populations of lamprey, burbot river ect ... they are on the menu of restaurants in the area of MΓ’con because the flesh is delicious
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I don't think you can call them invasive since France is their natural habitat. Successful predator may be a better word. On the other hand, if the rivers are too regulated and dredged by man there may be too few hiding places for burbot and other fish. I don't think killing hundred year old catfish is the best way to adjust the balance though.
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before 1960 they were not present..., they imported the river Danubes , anyway now they are part of the landscape fisheries, their eradication is a utopia, the Black Bass (Micropterus salmoides) is also very common in these two rivers
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Maybe I should go there. I once spent a very cold and dark one and a half hours diving with my underwater camera in the local river trying to get a picture of one but no success.
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