Tomato Plants second visit :)

[picsas]

Okay i tried to post them on the end of a previous post but i believe that it was closed prehaps, which prevented images to be uploade to it, so here ya go.
Thanks EZ for trying to assist, and thanks RH fothe suggestions of adding the yellow flowers. This is a nearly complete advertisment.

http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/zbc_uploads/user_image-1025950875jjq.jpg

a close up

http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/zbc_uploads/user_image-1025951032isu.jpg

[Ron Harris]

first image to look at of the morning and I like it....that is a unique way to grow maters....and the finny thing is, is that ifyou either ran a stake of wood thru it to the ground that would work....and then you tie the mater plant to the wood stake/post...mater plants are vines actually..snicker...and only support themselves so far up..maybe at 2 foot tall is when you stake them....and you can put a mater cage around them....I have known of people to take a five gallon bucket..put soil in it and cut a hole in the bottom about as big as a half dollar piece and putting the plant in with the green sticking out the bottom ...add dirt and suspend the bucket from a limb or something and the plant grows out the bottom see...you add water to it and never have to stake the plant.....though it looks like you are growing mater soup with this illustration....very nice idea.....but I like the bagged soil idea....also....fried green tomatoes...sliced a quarter inch thick or less and rolled in a little flour with a touch of cornmeal and using a milk bath and fried in a skillet of hot grease....well you have me jump started now...my tongue is beating my head crazy thinking about it......very nice mater plants.....something that you normally dont see in the art world... :tu: :tu: :tu: :tu: :tu: :tu:

[Hanuman]

I must say arran that after seeing some of your superb human modelling, (particularly the not so slim lady you modelled a while back), I'd have to say these plants are somewhat disappointing.

I don't know how you are using them, so the plastic look might in fact be what you wish to achieve.

However as far as tomato plants go, they just look wrong. No doubt it is an engineering feat with the MultiMarker but the fronds are too even and all the leaves look identical.

But as I said this could very well be the look that you were after.

[DeeVee]

As an Agriculturist I must say that I am impressed by your grow bags, they are very well done. As far as the Tomato plants are concerned, my only suggestion would be in the size of the main trunk, it is a little big, the leaves and flowers are also well done, I think you got the colouring right. Those are MHO's.

DeeVee
Joe

[banez]

:tu: picsas :tu:
way to go the hole pic came out nice..
my momma used to make Fryed Green Tomato's and you want to talk about some good eating
:tu:
there tasty good

[Ron Harris]

well I have to tell you that your plants are just fine....here are a couple of mater plant images I found...you also have a PM....

http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/zbc_uploads/user_image-1025964541rvo.jpg

[Kathy]

Fabulous. :D

I love the can opener and utensils hanging. :tu: :tu:

[Belleski]

Wow...how very odd and imaginative.
Love the richness of colour and the yellow flowers add more realism. My fav part is the can opener...Why? :D

[Vikki]

This is awesome! Very real likeness.

Belleski, there's a can a soup in them thar mato plants! You've got to have a can opener to open the can of soup. :D

These are really cool images!

[juandel]

i for my part love them a lot, Arran! :tu: :tu: :tu:

:qu: did you polymesh one branch "only" and construct the plant snapshooting them or did you build up the whole plant as one tool... the latter for sure would have been a :eek: job (and a megapolycount)!!!

- juandel

[Tag]

The flowers add a perfect touch to an already good image :tu:

[picsas]

Thankyou for all your comments especially yours Hanuman, because you are correct in pointing out that i am not so good at plants as i am human anatomy, non the less i will persevere and take enough steps forward to become the best i can, in the areas that interest me. I had an idea of how easy it would be yo create a very realy tomato plant by simply scanning in some different leaves, applying them to a 3d plane, making the texture transparent where the black is and they would surely be real, but not so much fun as making this wacky image i assure you. One thing i know is that every opinion has a value and I value a critisism, my teacher realised that when she critisised my work, then i worked even harder, maybe I get complasant after a while, well in fact I know I do!
I created a leaf using a 3D plane then using the multimarker tool and snapshots i put together a polymesh branch, i then created a tomato and then after Ron suggested, I created a flower using a 3D sphere which worked out fine :). if you plant your seed with Incredible then you get more than you bargained for!! (in a good way of course)

picsas

[Grub]

Great multimarker mastery(how do have the patience!), nice job all round, the concept is great. :tu: :tu: :tu: