-One of my friends at school (Ken N.) was looking at the toad and said I really shouldnāt leave it with out the eye being finished. So here it is just for you Ken, I have the base of my texture all finished and I might do more once I have the ground plain sculpted and ready to go. So be patient and hopefully this week end I might have more to show all of you.
Cheers
-E
Wow the texture looks awesome!!
Nice work man
Thought I might get a few nice shots up before I head off to work this morning.
Cheers
-Eric
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lookin good eric. what are you gonna do for spec? 
Great work!
This is coming along really nicely! My pet frog recently died so Iām modelling a frog someday soon. As for your toad the only crits I have is that the color could be broken up with the colorize spray and with a tiny dot alpha. Low opacity so you can get some very slight variation of colors. Also the material should have a bit more specularity. I know toads arenāt as slimy as frogs but they still have a little bit of shininess.
Hey Eric, sorry it took so long for me to post. Iām really diggin this model. Especially now that it has some color to it. I will point out that the texture doesnāt seem to feel like a toads skin yet. I think, after looking through some pictures of toads, that itāll be remedied when you get the scene set up and light the thing. Maybe itās just me though. Anyway itās a nice lookin toad and I can say that, we got a lot of toads in Missouri. Later bro, keep on with the hard work.
You havenāt abandoned this model have you? I think the comment womball gave was important. You could add a bit of an alpha paint with a low opacity to break things up a bit. Otherwise, a bit of shine would be nice. Nice job so far.
Looks, good, man!
Are you inventing your own toad variation, or is this imitating an existing animal? As an artist, you are free to make your subject top-heavy, small-grinned, or dry instead of slimy. You can even disallow eye-socket-geometry-rotational-aspect-leveraginglessnes if you want to. You get to tell US what this particular toad looks like.
However, if youāre trying to duplicate Bufo Marinus of Central and South America, youāve got it all wrong! 
Thanks guys for all the support, I know it has been a while and I have been so preoccupied with teaching that I have had little time to work. I hope this update will keep you all interested. I have plains to put the toad in a little this environment, thatās what this scene is about.
As far as the nature of this animal, Iām going to say that it is made up of 4 different typed of Toads. Some of them are not even labeled in my photo reference. In other word this animal is fiction simply something for me to practice with and work out a proper pipeline. I was able to do this model in I think it was about four days. I could have done it faster but I was interested in taking my time and learning the new tools.
Keep an eye out for my updates I am going to try and get this all finished as soon as possible. But my teaching usually comes first so please be patient with me.
Cheer
-Eric
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Hey thats a cool approach, nice work fellaā¦
Your toads looking pretty good, I canāt wait to see how it looks in that enviroment you made. Keep up the good work itās pushing me to work on mine.
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Really nice work. I think the froggy can be more slimy though.
Great stuff. Amazing how it came out rendered.
Nice to see an update, Iāve taken a break from my toad until I can make a better enviroment for him.
Thank you guys so much
wdcstudios: I know what you mean about brakes
monkeYB07: thank you and just wait till we have it properly set David is going to apply the spec map i just painted, hopefully very soon. we are also getting a test camera setup so we can see how we will move around the scene.
brettSinclair: thanks but its a Toad and it actually need to look even drier than it dose right now. But if it where a frog your right it would look better wet.
Ah. Well donāt worry then. My mistake
Looks great!
Hey Eric, Iām diggin what I see. The enviroment looks good along with the toad. What happened to the original, just out of curiosity. I am going to point out that something in the eye-level view doesnāt look right. I canāt quite put my finger on exactly what it is yet though. It may be the shadow on the mouth being too heavy I donāt know.