The "Hey stingray!" project / modelling,rigging and animating underwater world

Hi there
this is a mult-ipart tutorial series dealing with how to model,rig,animate and composite an underwater life scene of a flock of stingrays swimming around
you can see the teaser here :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV0FjPLaHCo&list=UUKDe8_5_-j7HvyS6p0QLlaA&index=4&feature=plcp

main topics covered in this tutorial are expected to be :
-digital sculpting
-retopo
-BMesh
-rigging with weight paint
-weight paint controlled modifiers
-spline IK
-actions and actions editor
-Boids physics model
-compositing

musical theme courtesy of pushtobreak : http://www.freesound.org/people/pushtobreak/sounds/17755/

Here are the videos (updated so far) :

Teaser :

https://youtu.be/GV0FjPLaHCo

Part One : blocking out the stingray

https://youtu.be/3TIFOm-PWA0

Part Two : UV unwrapping,sculpting and applying normal maps

https://youtu.be/2Y5akYkvSgc

Part Three : trying some alternative UV layouts

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz31H27XwiA&list=UUKDe8_5_-j7HvyS6p0QLlaA&index=2&feature=plcp

Part Four : texture painting the stingray

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV84K8-PRdQ&list=UUKDe8_5_-j7HvyS6p0QLlaA&index=1&feature=plcp

thanks for watching

Thank you for all you hard work, Peter. I’m finding your tutorials very helpful. Great job!

Thank you Raw Recruit for commenting and support,feeling so happy you found them somewhat useful!Peter

I’m working on something similar and this has been a helpful reference. Thanks friend

Hi. I’m looking for tutorials on under water scenes but the videos on here aren’t anywhere to be found help!?!?!

Same here. I’m getting “video does not exist” messages :frowning:

I get, This video is unavailable for the teaser.
thanks

Peter said a long time ago that he accidentally deleted his Youtube account and was working on reuploading them. Haven’t seen anything from him on this forum in months. It’s a bummer because he was cranking out tutorials left and right.