ouch!

[monstermaker]

JonhtheBpost2.jpg modo,ZBrush, photoshop. Modo render

[marcus_civis]

Salome really should stay out of the kitchen ;) Great work :tu:

[Magician]

fantastic work as always. The hair is great, any tips for that?

[Angelstein]

Ouch and a half more like! Bloody great, literally :D

Rick Baker eh?! Really, or just a rather cool coincidence? :lol:

[KrakenCMT]

Alright... Who ordered the head on a silver platter?!

Simply great! Is the hair painted in Photoshop?

[wolfie]

This is amazing :tu: :tu: :tu:

[Drummer]

great work !!
I love how you did the blood, it looks real !
Giovanni Battista?

[bicc39]

Great work!!!
Time to make a dentist appointment also.

edit: just noticed I was the third Great work!!!
so....
Superb accomplishment!!!

[Bas Mazur]

Open mouth like him....
:tu: :tu: :tu:

[alexleia]

Rick,

amazing!!
Alex Oliver

[jmeyer]

Superior craftsmanship !:cool:

[Jason Belec]

I am not eating dinner at you place man! Yyeeaauucchhh! ;) Other than that, great idea. ;)

[VVDFX]

beautifull work!

I love the style of the whole picture, the feeling it has. really well done.

Could we see some pictures of the origional sculpt?

[vlad74]

What can I say. Piece of art. This is my comment.

[GORILLA]

Ohhhh, Rick you know I like this!!!!!! Wicked \m/



GORILLA

[Bonesone4]

How long did this take Rick? I love it. Just for fun?

Bones

[Tartan]

eek! Superb work. Absolutely superb. My mouth dropped open also and I had to check to see if I had the rest of my body laying around lol One of your very Best Z pieces rick. well done :):tu:

[punchatz]

You still amaze and inspire me. I love it! Is the hair Photoshoped?

Nice one Rick!:tu: :tu: :tu: :tu: :tu:

Greg

[Ron Harris]

Heyas Rick,

Knew from the thumbnail who had created this and who the creation was immediately before clicking it open. Another outstanding work! Glad to see you posting. Saved this goody to my screen saver gallery.

cheers,
Ron

[elfufu]

hey rick,
i was at the animatronics exhibit this weekend, your work was very nice to see in person, the postal worker guy and the mighty joe young.. very inspirational.. i recommend to anyone who hasnt been there yet, this is last week i believe.

even better i was cleaning out my personal messages outbox and i found one i wrote to you 3 years ago almost.. made me laugh... :)

in February 2004 i wrote.....

"hey if you practive your topology, either using maya or using another 3d app and THEN bringing it into zbrush. or now that 2.5 will have it built in you will have no problem getting into the industry.

i love your boris karloff.

Cheers.
Miguel"

:confused: ;)

so yeah in case your 3000 oscars dont help you in the industry....... :tu:

[Patton]

Yikes!!

There gos the bar...Up!

PATTON

[SS810]

WOW !!!
I've been following your work for years, and your consistently superb work is an inspiration.
Keep leading the way MM !

[xxxeb]

very great, as always :)

[lemonnado]

Dang..... would have been a masterpiece but.... you forgot the Parsley!
Lemo :tu: :tu: :tu: :tu: :tu: ;)

[strob]

Wow Mr. Baker, you are now as good with Zbrush as with silicon and foam latex!!!

I'm a huge fan of your work!

Is this St-Jean le Baptiste? (I don't know his name in english, probably St-John the Batist).

The Bible has a lot of horror scenes, (like the protagonist of the movie Clockwork Orange discovered in prison).

Keep posting please!!!

[mxhaunted]

Bloody hell, that’s good! Amazing work as always.


MX

[Angelstein]

It seems quite clear this actually is Rick Baker ;) Forgive me, I'm new(ish) :D

Not suprisingly this is top row already, so that really confirmed it for me :rolleyes:

:tu:

[wp_capozzi]

Great work! What did you use to make the hair? Very nice!

Best regards,
Bill C.
Dedicated Digital

[- FoOD -]

WOW insane

[pOiNtPuShEr]

I appreciate some of the highly detailed pieces with all the pore level detail etc. but I think this is a clear example of a "less is more" approach relative to those. Really great forms and color. You are an amazing inspiration sir.

[BokoWar]

Terrific work man! Scary scene:)

[Blaine91555]

Great to see another post from you. :tu: Thanks once again for sharing on this board. They need to just give you the key to the top row and let you post there.

[jantim]

Looking great !..and who needs a hair plug-in if you can paint it so fantastic in Photoshop !..are you going to render in Modo from now on, or is it "just"a fase ;)

jantim

[Bas Mazur]

I need a hairplugin like many others to use with animation. Painting hair can be done in PhS or ZB.

[CAS NYC]

Hi

This is a DANGEROUS piece of art.
Cause, I almost lost my head when I saw it.


GREAT WORK!!

Your a Magician, You strive me to be better.
Thank you for sharing your art with the world.



CAS

[javalabala]

PUAJ, jeje, very nice job

[peterhoofd]

:tu:


edit: stupid

[Art4med]

So, how about a look at the grrrrl, Salome? :')

Didn't Delacroix or Velasquez paint something like this platter?
I like yours best.

[steventaylor]

nice tenabrizm
very carravagio-esq

[coye]

Considering the amount of post I dont really have to say anything

...but brilliant! -all the same.

[godlike27]

Nice....hmmm... amputation Monstermaker, delicious.

[kaibosh]

Jooooohhhhhhnnnnnnn!
We knew ye well.

Very nice. But this illustrates the lack of education in today's cg artists. Few will probably know the subject matter. It will probably take a few years before the prominent art schools have parallel lines of sculpture, oil painting, and cg modeling. Who will be the rembrandt/picasso of the cg world?

Amazing work.

[Elixir]

One of the greatest bible thrillers!! I love your rendition.

I too would like to know if the hair is PS... hell of a job if it is :D

[calum5ZB]

Knocked my block off too!!!!!

[Steevo]

Dear Fellow Z-Brushers:

Seeing this image reminds me of the great historical significance that religious-based art has had in the defining of cultures and history in general. Although this piece is a reminder of a sad and rather macbre subject, (one in which the person who raises moral issues in a public context is unfairly persecuted) the use of 3D technologies has again reminded the viewers that images have power and can inspire or shock us.

While I can appreciate many alien heads and other macbre images for their realism or their technical merits, I think that raising the viewers head to the divine aspects of our exitence is certainly a worthwhile endeavor.

Be well.

Steevo

[monstermaker]

Wow thanks everyone. I didn't expect this good of a response. Ah the hair, everyone asks about the hair. Since I don't have a software that does CG hair, and since I haven't been that impressed with the CG hair that I have seen ,and since this is just a still image, I painted the hair in PS. First I modeled some basic geometry ,In Modo, to represent the hair and beard . I applied a wood procedural texture as a displacement to give it some high ands lows. After rendering I painted over that geometry in PS. I did this in about a day . I posted the progress on the Luxollogy wip gallery.http://forums.luxology.com/discussion/topic.aspx?id=10694
. You might check it out to see the hair wips. I also have some other interesting stuff posted there you can do a search for monstermaker if you are interested. I haven't been doing much ZBrush lately because I have been teaching myself some other software ,and I was having weird ZProblems that are now Fixed ,Thanks Matthew. I forgot just how much I love ZBrush .Can't wait to play with 2.5.
Elfufu, I remember your comment from a couple of years ago,and it is still true I have a lot to learn about topology,but I did think it was funny. Those were the good old days when no one knew who the old monstermaker was.
Again thanks everyone

[Falfa]

Good job ! i like his mouth :)

[Frenchy Pilou]

...of feminism action ;)

[womball]

Awesome work! I thought this was Jesus at first until I clicked on the thumbnail. Quite a shock! Unless its a headless Jesus. :D

[Dickie]

It's John The Baptist and a side of fries, minus the fries...:D

I learn so much from your sculpting, Rick. The draping of the flesh over the bones is just SOOO well done. Really feels like a dead guy's head.

Inspiring work...:D

Damn, now I'm hungry...:lol:


Dickie

[Mr.Monster]

Monstermaker,

Nice charactor to the face, nice slack jawed pose, nice hair, nice lifeless eyes, nice coloring, nice blood, nice plate too ;)

NICE WORK :D

Your work continues to inspire.
Good to see you still posting :tu:

[RaresH]

Very nice Mr. Baker! You portray death very well. And excellent work on the hair.

[Davlin]

Nice and fun little project, I recognized the Monstermaker's touch a mile away. :D

Any more to come ?

Bye !

[pixelinfected]

you did it again!
every times i thought to see an amazing piece of art, you show your new work, and my list restart from you.

great work Rick.

[Antropus]

Rick is back!!! :tu:

Great expression. Love it :)

-Kris

[andyhosmer]

This is a fine example yet again of art making you amazed as well as a statement!

Steevo, you are right about this piece! There is a power in artwork that draws our emotions and deepest thoughts out into the open.

Mr BAker, The subject matter of this work speaks volumes to me. Just thinking about John's end in delivering the good news challenges me to live boldly.

Again, Great work!

-Andy

[EP1_za]

one day when i grow up i want to be just as talented as MM...
freekin cool JtB dude
awesome...10 stars

[Gammillart]

Excellent work, Rick. I've never seen a disembodied head look so... dead. Feels like a recently living, breathing person whose life has just drained out along with his blood in that bowl. Love the lighting and colors. And that hair looks amazingly natural.

[monkeymuscle]

HOLY CRAP RICK! If Your reputation did not already precede you I would be blown away by your new work! But,you have already awed and inspired me since i was a kid. Nothing new there:) The fact that an 'old pro' like yourself has as adapted to this new medium so fluidly is what truly inspires this humble monkey. Especially your jump into fluids and hair! Truely a difficult aspect of 3d. If you were the wicked witch of the east i would be honored to some day fly in your ranks. Bravo Mr. Baker on the subject matter. No one has done Johns head justice since Luini. He would be proud! Thanks for the years of inspiration.

[venomize]

HA!!! That is ****in bad-ass!!!! :tu:

[GUYJIN]

Amasing execution!
My only crit is that if the muscles of the jaw and the mouth are loose (due to the owners condition :cry: ) so should be the ones around his eyes and especially the eyebrows. Currently his face has an expression. I think it shouldn't. But again, great model and render! Props!

[TakezoSunfire]

Yow!! That hurts! I'm glad to see that you've done the transition into the 3d realm!

I wanna see your warewolf from the howling!:D

[arlem]

Impresive! :eek:

[Lead Balloon]

Absolutely fantastic

[Art4med]

Love to see your take on a look of ghastly glee on Salome's mother's face, or see the daughter dancing in scarves.......

[letalhell]

just for ask...How did you do the hair ?

[lemonnado]

Afaik he painted it in PS onto the render.
Lemo

[billrobertson42]

Yes.

http://www.zbrushcentral.com/zbc/showthread.php?p=299104&highlight=hair#post299104

[CalicoWishes]

First of all, ouch! And second good job here lol.

[sybren]

man I love it when they make faces like this one. Guess you're part of the 'they's' now. The lifeless expression is good but my kudos go to the face itself. Uncommon features and a mediaeval look. great work!!