Plesiosaur
Modelled and animated by Torsten Schneyer, Anders und Seim Neue Medien AG.
This is a realistic and detailed model of one of the creepiest and greatest creatures ever lived in earths oceans, the Plesiosaur. In fact it's the biggest kind of Plesiosaurs, also called 'Elasmosaur'.
Model:
This great dinasaur-mesh comes in two levels of detail: a high resolution version (28016 triangles) and a low resolution version for realtime projects (3390 triangles).
Textures:
The HiRes-textures are made of real elefant-, whale- and reptile skin shots and some photoshop painting.
Animation:
The plesiosaur is fully rigged and equipped with 51 bones to garant usability for any important animations.
The rigging supports:
-All kind of crawling and swiming
-open/close mouth
-fully animaitable fins, neck and tail
There are many anim-cicles included in the lws-files:
diving (like a sea turtle):
*diving fast forward
*diving left
*diving right
*diving idle
swimming on the surface (like a swan, look at picture aboce):
*swimming forward
*turning left
*turning right
