A Day on the Mud

[Kai NRG]

Quack! Quack!

A Kaliphlinian duck goes for a stroll.

Just a quick forced perspective scene. I had wanted to see how using brown tiles for smooth mud would work, and I think it was fairly effective.

I went on or off whether or not to post this here... in the end, I figured if Stranded made the cut, this should!

I'd like to claim UoP credit for swamp (Geography).

Thanks for looking!

[TheUtilityBelt]

Quack quack! I like the mud and duck!

[janatale]

Nice forced perspective! And the duck is awesome, great use of the airtank piece.

[gedren_y]

UoP DoH +1

[Lord Vladivus]

Nice, great duck, and the mud looks good too!

[-Horizon-]

Nice Duck Kai! The mud worked really well.

[Scaevola]

Nice work, the tiles work well for slick mud. Nice work for the background as well; +1 UoP DoH for all claims

[Kai NRG]

Thanks guys!

Nice forced perspective! And the duck is awesome, great use of the airtank piece.

Thanks! I built this for the CC part challenge, so I had to use the airtank piece... otherwise I don't know that I would ever have built something like this!

Nice work, the tiles work well for slick mud. Nice work for the background as well; +1 UoP DoH for all claims

Thanks, I'm glad you think the tiles work well! I might be using that technique again in the future!

[Mutant Orc]

Wow, very clever duck, nice mud and a good forced perspective!!!

[MassEditor]

Cool scene, I love the forced perspective!

[SPARROW THE CONQUEROR]

Ha ha! LOVE the duck. Did you get the eye element from the Mixels series, or somewhere else?

[Kai NRG]

Thanks everyone!

Ha ha! LOVE the duck. Did you get the eye element from the Mixels series, or somewhere else?

Thanks! Yes... but you're not supposed to know that he only has one eye!

[soccerkid6]

Very clever duck design and the mud banks look quite realistic Excellent FP castle too

[Gideon]

Nice bird and great photography!

UoP DoH +1 for swamp.

[Kai NRG]

Very clever duck design and the mud banks look quite realistic Excellent FP castle too

Thanks!

Nice bird and great photography!

UoP DoH +1 for swamp.

Thanks Gideon! As per the usual, I took upwards of 25 pictures, and ended up with half a dozen that looked almost exactly the same!

[Gideon]

Thanks Gideon! As per the usual, I took upwards of 25 pictures, and ended up with half a dozen that looked almost exactly the same!

Only 25 pictures? I recognize that...usually take a large number of pictures of each build from different angles, lighting conditions, exposures etc ( >1 GB from one session is not uncommon) but in the end many of them tends to turn out very similar...

The blessings of digital photography.

[Kai NRG]

Only 25 pictures? I recognize that...usually take a large number of pictures of each build from different angles, lighting conditions, exposures etc ( >1 GB from one session is not uncommon) but in the end many of them tends to turn out very similar...

The blessings of digital photography.

I have taken somewhere around 90 pictures before, but that's usually a larger build that requires multiple shots! Over 1 GB is quite a few though!

[Gideon]

Over 1 GB is quite a few though!

RAW+jpeg = 15 MB/pic

[Gabe]

Love the duck Kai, very inventive! The forced perspective is nice too. Personally i feel that the stacked tiles translates better as cracked and baking mud flats, as opposed to smooth wet mud, but either way it works well in the scene.

Geography UoP +1 for swamps.

[Kai NRG]

Love the duck Kai, very inventive! The forced perspective is nice too. Personally i feel that the stacked tiles translates better as cracked and baking mud flats, as opposed to smooth wet mud, but either way it works well in the scene.

Geography UoP +1 for swamps.

Thanks Gabe! Cracked and baking mud makes sense, I could see that!