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43 Beautiful and Terrifying Animal Renders

43 Beautiful and Terrifying Animal Renders

Topher Welsh on Sep 17th 2010 with 14 comments

Wildlife is all around us, and sometimes the best images we can get of them are the ones we actually create ourselves. Some of the animals in this roundup are recreated so well, you might not even know they were CG! Check out these awesome images, plus some animal based tutorials at the bottom of the article!

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Topher Welsh is a post production artist working mainly in the fields of motion graphics and visual effects. He is a freelancer out of Tacoma, Washington, and also runs www.VisualFXtuts.com, which provides a daily fix of tutorials from any and all applications in the visual effects industry. His personal website is found here: www.Toe-Fur.com.  

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Discussion 14 Comments

  1. Jay says:
    September 17, 2010 at 7:43 am

    WOW! Awesome, great and inspiring!

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  2. Omar says:
    September 17, 2010 at 8:38 am

    Wow.. awesome.. it’s just the “boxer giraffe” doesn’t fit :B

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  3. Stromberg says:
    September 17, 2010 at 10:08 am

    Yeah, there are some good images here but other are “bad”.
    And i know a few that is missing :P

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  4. georun974 says:
    September 17, 2010 at 11:16 am

    Some are very incredible. Great collection !

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  5. Bhanu says:
    September 17, 2010 at 3:07 pm

    Wonderful………!! some of them is unbelievable.

    Great collection….

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  6. jink says:
    September 19, 2010 at 10:28 pm

    Prince of Death, is that a painting?

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  7. Reece says:
    September 20, 2010 at 1:23 am

    Fantastic Roundup, they all look amazingly realistic!

    Reply
  8. Chris says:
    September 20, 2010 at 2:43 am

    Wow, that hippo is epic!

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  9. Phoenix says:
    September 21, 2010 at 3:42 am

    Does someone knows why I can’t see any of these images?

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    • Matt Brealey says:
      September 26, 2010 at 9:41 pm

      Hi Phoenix! We recently switched to a new hosting system, and as a result it may take a refresh or two to see the new images. If you’re still having trouble just let me know and I’ll chase up the issue :)

      Thanks!

      Matt

      Reply
  10. Crazyhunk says:
    September 21, 2010 at 10:29 am

    wow… love all of them….

    esp the Hippo, Horses & tiger

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  11. Dewald says:
    January 5, 2011 at 7:50 am

    I love the first frog with the lips. His expression is really cool.

    A lot of these animals have beautiful fur.

    I have played around tons with 3ds max’s hair and fur and still I haven’t got it down a 100%.

    If anybody knows of a comprehensive tutorial on 3ds max hair and fur please let me know.

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  12. Mohamed Raoof says:
    April 23, 2011 at 12:09 am

    Oh very nice collection,Happy that my image was among them

    Reply

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