Modelling my first scene

As you can see by the images uploaded (i.e. storyboard) my first scene consists of the crabs coming out of a house. I have decided to model this by using a close up shot of the front door with its surroundings, therefore i can create a good small model without going into unnecessary detail.

There are 2 images within this post, one is rendered and the other is non-rendered. The rendered image is the angle that i hope to use when producing the animation, this might change later on with publishing the creation.

Beginning the Modelling

I have started to design my crabs. The greatest obstacle that has slowed my progress down is the creation of the legs. For this i started off with a cube, cut away one end, and extruded, extended and scaled with border to create segments for the legs. This is key if the legs are to look realistic when turbo-smoothed. The image below is the leg without being smoothed and you are able to see all the different sections of it. The image below that is the leg smoothed out. Im not sure if i will keep it as it is or carry on playing about the with shape of it before it is ready to have bones placed in it.