Scared Silly Entry by John Saleem

[nightwoodwolf]

This is going to be my first work post here in ZBrushCentral. Since I’ve always wanted a wacom tablet but wasn’t able to afford to buy one, I am going to WIN IT .. lol

OK guys, I wish the very best for everyone. This is really going to be fun. A big thanks for Pixologic for the amazing challenge opportunity. :tu:

Idea: Big, stupid, strong troll…..who decided to participate in Halloween scaring ppl standing , wearing a pink, lacy, women’s nightie ( this is his Halloween costume he think that’s scary) Looking into a hand mirror….SHOCKED at what he sees!!! The mirror’s image is a scary jack-o-lantern head laughing hard at him….The troll is confused about what he is seeing because he wants to be scary…not to be laughed at. :o

[Harmonic]

Hey nightwoodwolf, I like the concept, but I am not sure that it will clearly come across an single image. I am just not how people will no that he is tiring to be scary?

[soulreaver]

Hi, nice idea..Keep it up..:)

[-WOODY-]

I like the idea, very funny indeed. Tell you what nightwoodwolf, in the far-far-fetched off-chance that I win this event and you don't finish in the top 3, I'll give you my old wacom.

It's stil fairly new and huge......toooooo huge. It's an Intuos 2 12 x 18 I think, but I'm sure that we all would love to have that Cintiq. That is if we can get Aurick to put it back in the box and stop playing with it.

[Ctrl-Z]

That is if we can get Aurick to put it back in the box and stop playing with it.I'm not even gonna touch that.



Idea: Big, stupid, strong troll…..who decided to participate in Halloween scaring ppl standing , wearing a pink, lacy, women’s nightie ( this is his Halloween costume he think that’s scary) Looking into a hand mirror….SHOCKED at what he sees!!! The mirror’s image is a scary jack-o-lantern head laughing hard at him….The troll is confused about what he is seeing because he wants to be scary…not to be laughed at.
Definitely sketch this one out, get a feel for the framing, and how much you can fit on the page. ie, if the hand-mirror is big enough in the frame for us to make out the laughing pumpkin, can we also see the trolls costume?

Also worth noting: the default jack-o-lantern face is a giant grin. It might be difficult to convey that this particular one is laughing. Likewise, you hear laughter with a pumpkin head, that brings up images of "Legend of Sleepy Hollow" -- so you also have to convey that the laughter is condescending; not maniacal.

(if one misses that last point, they might interpret your scene as the troll being shocked to learn that the headless horseman is about to kill him.)


...that said, I don't believe the rules specified it had to be a single image. If you need to make a three panel comic to get your point across, there's nothing stopping you.

[threetails]

i like your mind, this is a cool idea with lots of potential. are you going for some realistic elements or cartoonish. either way the concept is great.

[nightwoodwolf]

Harmonic- thanks for you input I am gonna do my best to make it a single image
Soulreaver : thank you.
-WOODY- : thanks for the offer and I wish you the best seriously.
Ctrl-Z : the laughing pumpkin id gonna be in the mirror, and hopefully , the troll’s facial expression and his body language are gonna convey that shocked angry kindda pissed off look, there will be an opened box next to his feet that has a sticker on the lower part of that says
“Troll’s Halloween Costume – made with love, Mama Troll”

and it is going to be written in trollish writing, haha

threetails : thank you, the only thing am not really sure about yet is if I am gonna make the whole thing cartoonish style or realistic.

[nightwoodwolf]

alright here I am going to start working on the troll first and posting the steps of the creation every now and then, I always start with a basemesh in Maya but for this particular project I am gonna use zsphere modeling and go from there.

thanks for your C&C

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[Blaine91555]

Troll in a Teddy :lol: :lol: :lol:

Nice start.

[duckstab]

Cool looking just like the LOTR Troll :D
Keep it up

[nightwoodwolf]

Blaine91555 : thank you.
duckstab : thank you.

I am glad I found a lil bit of free time to continue working on him, work still in progress.



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[dustbin1_uk]

Looking good! Hate to try and get past him on a small hallway!:D

[nightwoodwolf]

dustbin1_uk : hehehe .. well that happens a lot in any contest, good luck

[Carsten Lind]

this is great :D

I love the hands..

[nightwoodwolf]

Carsten Lind thank you, gonna continue working on him today i hope

[-WOODY-]

It's looking pretty good so far, but don't get into tooo big of a hurry. We have until November 2nd.

[chemkid]

-WOODY- - i feel like i have to run!!! hurry up!! everythings looks so cool already. a few more days and the contest is over!!! aaargh!

nightwoodwolf - i really like your model. oh, and don`t forget to relax... you`re not in a hurry... not?! hehehe...

chem!

[nightwoodwolf]

cham : thank you ... i am relaxed and i am enjoying the contest
-WOODY- : just making sure i'll be covering most of the modeling since i might or might not get busy next week, still not sure.

good luck everybody
:tu:

[nightwoodwolf]

ok guys here is my latest update, haven’t done with him yet, gonna work on his face next, hope you will like it, thanks.
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[nightwoodwolf]

alright, I thought of giving him a pose before refining the details on his skin and detailing the face, something like he is in action, c&c are welcome.



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[fabritz]

Very nice, coming along fine. You sure have the 3.0 figured out. I'm still getting over the learning curve. Best of luck!

[-WOODY-]

Wow, I like the skin detail. It seems to fit him perfectly. I also like the pose except I can't help but feel like his head is a bit stiff.

Is there any way you could twist / tilt his head to match his movement?

I'm guessing you haven't reached that part yet cause you haven't finished detailing and texturing his head?

[nightwoodwolf]

fabritz : thank you .. we are all learning now matter how good we are.

-WOODY- : thanks and you are right i didnt touch the head, i was just seeing the body muscles and everything but the head, next i will work on the head and then start texturing him.

its gonna be my first time texturing in Zbrush for that i am excited, i am checking Scott Spencer poly painting video, great tutorial.

cheers

[snowkaren]

very fine detailed character.
Like his legs

[Crazy Horse]

Hey there!

Looking good! Love the pose!:tu:

P

[Brutikong]

Looks alot like the LOTR Troll.. Is that intentional?

[nightwoodwolf]

Snowkaren : thank you.

Crazy Horse : thank you.

Brutikong : nope not intentional, this guy has muscle body structure kindda emphasized and more close to human like in his nails with his toes and hands, LOTR troll has more accumulated fat and folded skin, different legs, and I believe even taller, the LOTR Troll is always gonna no.1 of course they are the masters and the inspiration

Thank you.

[aurick]

Your thread title violates the rules. I need your first name so that I can edit it.


Thanks.

[nightwoodwolf]

aurick : its Ghiath .. didnt know we cant use initials


thanks

[nightwoodwolf]

ok I decided to take a lil break from our fat detailed troll and work on Jack, still work on progress on our beloved pumpkin head n' i thought of keeping you posted.

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here are the steps of the making … I started with a sphere converted to 3d of course n' I went from there sculpting a rough pumpkin without adding any facial features, just normal pumpkin .. then once I am satisfied with the overall look I started adding the face features.

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[nightwoodwolf]

yes I didn’t finsh Jack-O-L head yet but I am one of those who like to roughly sketch what I have in mind even in 3d and also not get bored with one model ... so I decided to create the mirror without detailing it ( since Jack gonna be the reflection of the Troll in mirror remember !!? ) so I it would be nice to model the mirror and add it in the scene so the fast of imginging the idea and the pose would be easier and faster.


I created 2 alphas in Adobe Illustrator to use them in Zbrush .. here comes the powerful flexibility of Zbrush allowing you to sculpt and model in so many different ways, down I included both Alpha A and alpha B.

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after importing Alpha A to 3d and as you can see in the image, I used 256 Mesh resolution and Mesh Depth of 5 other settings left as default, I used the DragRec stroke with inflate Brush to draw Alpha B on the created mesh, and now i have my mirror ( without the stands ).

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soon I am gonna create the mirror stands and detaling our yummy pumkin .. ops I mean Jack and keep you posted i better go eat something now i am hungry :D ….. hope you find this helpful for you, C & C are always welcome, thanks

[dustbin1_uk]

Yeah! I did find this usefull! It gave me some ideas on how to make the toilet for my project. It's my next job and I've fretting about how to even start.

Thank you! :tu: :D :tu:

[Intervain]

it's coming along real good! Keep it up!

[soulreaver]

Great idea, keep it up:)

[-WOODY-]

I like the way you did your pumpkin. I almost did mine that way, but I couldn't make up my mind how I wanted to go about it. A stylised pumpkin with facial features or an actual carved look. Your way probably is much better because since I used mesh extraction, I'm stuck with a high resolution mesh.

Your mirror is cool too.

[nightwoodwolf]

dustbin1_uk : glad you did find it useful .. good luck.
Intervain : thank you.
soulreaver :thank you.
-WOODY- : I kindda struggled myself with facial expression, I sculpted about 4 or 5 n’ i wasn’t really satisfied with how the laughing face coming out, some of them was cool but didn’t maintain the scary look or in better words the EVIL look in the eyes while laughing, for now I am staying with this one till we see how it goes, good luck with your project. :tu:

I got am email asking me about the pumpkin material, I created both colored spheres in Maya, anyway, I am not sure how it works here but I noticed zipped files are acceptable to upload !!

[Disco Stu]

nice work

[Jassar]

Hey Ghiath ( or Ghaith ? ) nice nice work man, that troll reminds me of LOTR :D

Cheers and good luck!

[nightwoodwolf]

Disco Stu : thank you.
Jassar : thank you.

here is a gray-bluish everyday sculpting material, new updates on models coming soong, thanks.

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[Eddie Ellis]

ha ha .. cave trolls are cool

[nightwoodwolf]

Eddie Ellis : yes they are, thanks.

Ok here is how the mirror is coming up.

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the following images are how I created the stands from zsphers.

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as usual C & C and suggestions are welcome, thanks n' good luck :tu:

[nightwoodwolf]

ok I know the idea says hand mirror but I decided to create a big mirror where I can show more of jack-o-lantern reflection, I might go for half body reflection of jack instead of his face only, and maybe its gonna be kindda embossed like reflection .. still not sure.

I hope that slight concept change doesn’t violate the rules of the contest !!

[nightwoodwolf]

our troll now got his nightie and he is wearing it, i used the topology tool to create the nightie, still trying to decide what color/texture for the nightie fits him, also worked on Jack's body and gave him more evil sarcastic laugh and placed him in the mirror.

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Troll's face expression


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[henrysouth]

awesome. ive given up on mine. too much work on and got caught up in another project. win this for those who bottle out mate!!

[nightwoodwolf]

henrysouth : thank you, and sorry to hear you are leaving the contest, more luck with the next one :tu:

[Giantsun]

Amazing stuff nightwoodwolf. :tu:

[squeige]

This is turning out to be an amazing entry O.o

[monicaM]

really interesting concept. scary but funny.... sweet!:D

[dustbin1_uk]

Holy crap that mirror pumpkin dude looks good! By the way..... and I can't believe I am about to say this.... I like the dress the troll is wearing on the left!:rolleyes:

[Slosh]

This is coming along so well, wolf...I actually made an audible chuckle when I saw the latest updates. The troll's facial expression is wonderful, and Jack coming from the mirror is 10X better than I imagined it.

I have to step up my game big time, now. Thanks for making my job harder. ;)

[nightwoodwolf]

Giantsun : thank you.
squeige : thank you.
monicaM : thank you.
dustbin1_uk : thank you, i am still deciding which one i like on him more, glad we still have time, best luck.

Slosh : thank you, jack coming out of the mirror is better than the idea of the refelection only, still working on him :tu:

here are some images of textured troll and nightie, still WIP.

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[Disco Stu]

i love it! at first i thought oj no not a realistic monster again but the toon eyes and dress are great i got to catch up on that hope ill have time to brush later. :tu: :tu: great

[sadicus]

That is to Funny!
Great modeling, and texture.:D

[Blaine91555]

Great character. You should go with a pink Teddy.

[Morbius]

What a great critter! I could see having one of those for a pet! Very cool. Love the textures on him. And that expression on his face is cracking me up.

Pumpkin-dude coming out of the mirror on the previous page is just AMAZING.

Really sweet work. I'm lovin it!
:D

[dustbin1_uk]

Ok now I like the red dress it goes with his eyes mmmooo........WHAT!?..... ok my wife gets tips from her friends and I happened to over hear...... honestly stop looking at me like that..... I just like the color red...... no that is not my weekend dress hanging in my wardrobe..... no my wife’s heels are not stretched from my feet....I just thought the red goes better...... look I just like red ok? <sulk>

[-WOODY-]

Sheesh dude, that model is excellent! I love the color, texture, and the pose. You're really zipping along rather nicley. Hopefully you wont have time to finish so I might have a chance to win hehe.

[Tallin]

Enjoying your work. You are very good. :tu:

[nightwoodwolf]

Disco Stu : thank you, i start with simple stuff then i build up more details.
sadicus : thank you.
Blaine91555 : pink is nice, but i am trying to find a good balance with his skin, dress and other parts color, i am even finding the eye color is too strong, i might tone it down a bit later.
Morbius : thank you.
dustbin1_uk : :D .... dont worry i like the red one too, thanks for the funny comment :tu:

-WOODY- : lol .. glad you like it, by the way i really like your post about the old cowboy he is really cool, i had to stop working on a centaur character i think i will post the work after i am done with this contest, good luck :tu:

[nightwoodwolf]

O.K. I'm glad I found the time to work today. I created the clothes box that his mom is going to send the nightie in. I must say it was really harder than I thought to model the box and all the pieces without basemeshes in maya.

I had to start with primatives from zbrush and use the Deformations a lot. there were no zspheres involved except for the handles, still WIP.


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[nightwoodwolf]

Tallin : thank you i am glad you like it :)

[piz]

Very Cool Stuff here! I missed it... Bravo! ;) :tu:

[snowkaren]

I'm happy to see these recent wip images, very lovely texturing. I'm loveing ur character much more than before. Great job, nightwoodwolf (http://209.132.96.165/zbc/member.php?u=77765) vbmenu_register("postmenu_402615", true); .
BTW, how did u created the tex for the character? I'll be glad if u share ur workflow with us, thx.

[KOSOVA]

Looking great and the idea is good too.

[nightwoodwolf]

piz : thank you.

snowkaren : I will show more of texturing workflow with images soon, quick and short, I start with dark color on the model and of course that dark color is close to the final texture overall color then I add more details to the skin with different alphas using spray stroke, DragRec and free hand stroke ( low rgb intensity ) those alphas may n may not contain different colors, and after I get the skin color variation close to what I want I mask the model using Mask by Alpha and add more details on some places.

KOSOVA :thank you.

Here are some images of the textured version of the box, c&c welcome, thanks.

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[piz]

Very nice texturing! Bravo nightwoodwolf! :D :tu:

[Harmonic]

Looken really good nightwoodwolf! You are moving right along. I really like how you are doing the pumpkin guy coming out of the mirror. :tu:

[-WOODY-]

I like the texturing and eveything for your chest. It kind of reminds me of the old looking chests that you can buy at Hobby Lobby.

[nightwoodwolf]

piz : thank you.
Harmonic : thank you.
-WOODY- : yeah it is kindda that type, thanks.

its been crazy busy here on my end i couldnt find the time to work on this project the last couple of days, hopfully tomorrow i'll continue working on it a lil bit, thanks everyone and good luck. :tu:

[ravioli_rancher]

nightwoodwolf,

Amazing texture work and zmodeling. Some of the most amazing work in a competition full of amazing works. Tell everyone to leave you alone so you can finish. :D

[nightwoodwolf]

ravioli_rancher : thanks alot man your words are really encourging. :tu:

not a huge update, but i am glad i found the time to continue working today,i textured the mirror in zbrush, had to build a topology for it too,then exported the texture, unwrapped the model and did quick test render in Maya.

thanks everyone n' good luck.


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[XSI Apprentice]

Hey, sweet idea, this sounds like a pretty funny concept. Just an idea, could/could-not work, maybe too show that he will be trick or treating, have him in a 2 story or so house, and you can see kids out the window trick or treating down the street, and maybe place his lolli bucket next to him on the floor or something. just an idea :), look forward to the finished piece.

[nightwoodwolf]

XSI Apprentice : thats funny :D ... specially the idea of adding lolli bucket next to him on the floor even the kids from the window .. but thats seriously alot of work and with the days we have !! .. hmmm too bad we cant do that cool idea tho :tu:

[XSI Apprentice]

Hey nightwoodwolf, no probs, haha yeh true regarding the time left, glad you liked the ideas :D, good luck, your going pretty sweet so far :D

[nightwoodwolf]

XSI Apprentice : thanks you

thought of sharing my Jack's body and head texturing WIP, still needs to add tree leaves on his body.

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[DMerchen]

That is pretty cool looking! So, I am interested how you got the holes in the head. I can make a pumpkin, but getting a carved look is not going so well. Any hints how to achieve this is appreciated.

[XSI Apprentice]

That pumpkin dude is looking really sweet :D

[dustbin1_uk]

This is amazing progress, I love the texture on all these models. Getting excited to see the finished image now! Well done! :D:tu:

[Rory_L]

I like him!

You could extract some of those tendrils from the mesh and make them stand out beyond the surface a bit.

Add to that, some corkscrewy tendrils here and there might be nice.

Cheers,

R

[nightwoodwolf]

XSI Apprentice : thank you.

dustbin1_uk : thank you i hope i will finsh in time

Rory_L : thank you and thats not a bad idea. :tu:

DMerchen : there are couple of ways you can make the pumpkin with the face features,in the images below i included 2 ways .. A and B ... both starts with masking first, i added another image for detailing the pumpkin as well, hope this will help .. good luck.


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[XSI Apprentice]

Wow, awesome tute, i might use that for mine :D, Thanks nightwoodwolf

[nightwoodwolf]

XSI Apprentice : thank you im happy you liked it :tu:

as i mentioned before things are really busy here on my end hope it wont stop me from finshing with you guys, 30 minutes ago i was free and i decided i should sculpt the cave that the troll gonna be in with jack and the mirror, i started with plane3D in Zbrush and inflated some places then created some alphas in photoshop to detail the wall, due to my lack of experiance with rendering in Zbrush i decided to render the final image in Maya and use photoshop for compsiting.

thanks every one .. and good luck

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[nightwoodwolf]

alright ... i needed to put everything together to see how would the final image look like, here it is so far with some basic lighting, i decided to model 1 or 2 framed pictures to hang them on the cave's wall, just to give the impression of thats where he lives, i will also sculpt some fast rocks to scatter here and there around the cave, also i am thinking of some kind of rays coming from the above with some sparks with the light, alot of ideas and we are running out of time :lol:


comments and crits are welcome and good luck everyone :tu:


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[Rory_L]

It's coming together well now, but you still need to make the dress sillier if you want us to get why Jack's laughing at the troll. As is, it could be that this pumpkin just finds all trolls innately laughable.

I thought it was to be a pink nightie, wasn't it?

Cheers,

R

[dustbin1_uk]

Ah! that's the shot we were all waiting for! Looking great!

One or two things I'd consider. Maybe withdraw the camera a bit? You may also want to rotate the Troll slightly round to the Camera so you can see his expresion. Maybe mirror ('scuse the pun, not intended) the pumpkin dudes body the other way? His nearest arm seems to cover alot of him up.
Even so this is looking cool! Well Done!

[LittleDedder]

Just something to try if you built the geometry.


Maybe a little more of an over the sholder on Jack so we sort of take Jack's perspective and see what a silly sight the troll is.

[nightwoodwolf]

Rory_L : thank you, yes the nightie suppose to be pink but the current color fits the scene colors better and for sure i will add more details to the nightie hopfuly soon.

dustbin1_uk : i agree with you the camera should take a better place but its kindda hard to show both of their faces with one single camera shot, we'll see, thank you very much.


LittleDedder : you'll get it with the next render :) thanks

guys all of your comments are really being a source of inspiration to a better render, thank you and good luck all :tu:




here is a little update with the lighting and added some rocks around the scene, i'll show the making of the rocks next post.


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[sasquatchpoacher]

Coming along nicely. Cool to see the final composition come together.

[Ctrl-Z]

I think you need to cheat the camera a little more. Meaning, rotate the mirror and the troll so that they're much closer to facing us. Remember, this is comedy -- you can break a couple of rules.

In fact, if it grants you a more flattering angle on both of your characters, consider making it a moment later -- the troll, hurt and confused, stumbles away from the mirror and looks to us for validation. (Why pumpkin man laughing? Troll look pretty, yes?)

I think that would grant you a more dynamic shot, and allow you to crop in much closer.

In any case, I'd encourage you to render a handful of composition tests and ask the group for feedback before you finalize anything.


(I say much of this because the individual character renders were so good)

[dustbin1_uk]

Sorry I didn't explain what I meant too well in my last post. I'd take the body of the pumpkin dude, and mirror it, meaning the left hand becomes the right and visa versa, the deformation menu should enable you to do this, and just see how it looks.

Then just rotate the troll a little towards the camera so you can see his expression better.

After seeing the second light test I take back about pulling the camera back, I think it is positioned fine.

Other than that, no other crits to offer. Maybe a few more flowers on the dress for comedy's sake. :D ;)

It's a winning peace man, I'm torn between this and one maybe two others. :tu:

Like Ctl-Z said, make a few low res composition shots and let us help you choose, I've found when staring at one peace for hours on end I loose perspective on it and often find showing others means they look at it 'fresh' and see something you didn't through simple over exposure to it.

[squeige]

Dustin, just wanted to add a little something, hope you don`t mind, but I would work a little more on the pumkins hand maybe stretch it into a pose that will show the silloute of the hand a little better and maybe scale the hand just a little to show more emphasis on it... looking great by the way :)

Oh yeah I love the way you created the pumpkin very nice!

[nightwoodwolf]

sasquatchpoacher : thank you.

Ctrl-Z : i wish i have the time for more than one composition really, but i really started to like your idea about him looking at the camera ( the troll ), i also agree with the individual render for the characters but they were in show poses if you know what i mean, now they are in the scene and they have to follow the lights in the scene, thanks for your great input. :tu:

dustbin1_uk : thank you pal your comments always helpful, i like your concept very much. :lol:

squeige : very interesting input, thank you .. i'll work on it.

well guys all of your feedback is really helpful, i like how we all learning from each other here in this contest, which is not something new in ZBC, thanks everyone ... and very good luck :tu:

[nightwoodwolf]

well this is "Not" the final render but it is very close to how it will look like, hope you will like it ... i hope i will finsh it as i am getting really busy the next couple of days, thank you and good luck for all.

c&c are welcome.


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[LittleDedder]

Great work

[dustbin1_uk]

That's much better! This one is now a real winner! Congratulations, looking forward to seeing the final render! :D:tu:

[Ctrl-Z]

Agreed! The changes are subtle, but make a world of difference. Quite striking to compare.

[Slosh]

Sweet render on the last one, night...I was going to suggest the same thing that Ctrl-Z said...the facial expressions you made for the characters are so good that it was a shame to lose some of that in the positioning. This is not real life, so turning them to the viewer more is fine...and you did it just great in this last post. I'm thinking about not offering any crits for you, this is just too good and I'm trying to win as well! :D :D

[squeige]

I like it.

[-WOODY-]

Your modeling looks good nightwoodwolf. I also like the lighting and dust effects in the light rays.

The only crit I have is the scene in relation to the character layouts. I'm not sure, but I'm guessing from what you said is that maybe your models are already stuck to the canvas?

If not, then the suggestion I had was to maybe move the 2 main characters a bit closer together under the main light in front of the chest and crop the width of your render to better focus your attention on them. It's a good setup, but I think that becuase of all the other space around them, your eye tends to wonder around elsewhere in the room.

[Rory_L]

I'd like the flower pattern to be bolder, more instantly visible. There shouldn't be anything subtle about the dress!

Cheers,

R

[nightwoodwolf]

LittleDedder : thank you.

dustbin1_uk : thank you pal.

Ctrl-Z : thank you i agree.

Slosh : thank you, i wish you good luck.

squeige : thank you i am glad you do.

-WOODY- : yes there are alot of different ways you can position characters in a scene, its endless, i am kindda enjoying my final setup, thank you.

Rory_L : thats ironic .. i agree, the nightie was the first thing i was going to work on today .. hopfuly i will tomorrow, thank you.

[threetails]

wow, nice render and lighting, the textures a well done, i love a good paint job. good luck, i look forward to seeing the final.

[XSI Apprentice]

Yes, i gree, render looks really nice :D

[nightwoodwolf]

threetails and XSI Apprentice thank you i am glad you like it

ok i almost forgot to share the making of the rocks and the nightie .. nightie created using topology and the rock from a sphere

good luck everyone.

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[Rory_L]

Oh yes: frilly lace! :D

And a good rock. What size is it going to be in the scene? Looks a little pebbly to me, but a very good one!

R

[nightwoodwolf]

Rory_L : thank you

here is the modified render in Maya, i changed the color of the nightie and added the lace, also added the letter he got with the box from his mom, now i am kindda satisfied with it, thank you every one and very good luck.

23_render.jpg

[dustbin1_uk]

I love it! that's wonderful! The letter is a nice touch! And the dress now looks perfect..... ok..... ok...... I know! But seroiusly, you took the advice of everyone and made this image your own.

I am very impressed and i think this will be a winner.

well done! :D :tu:

[henrysouth]

thats awesome man, i hope you win one of those graphic tablets that are goin! definately deserve it!

[Rory_L]

It's all come together very well. The point is clearly made; and the over all colouring balance is appealing, with the red dress being echoed in the pumpkin's head.

Best of luck!

R

[Dondemaker]

Great work. Everything works well together and I agree that the letter helps to make the humour immediately clear. This looks like it might be your final render? Best of luck,
Jason

[sasquatchpoacher]

Great work nightwoodwolf! really enjoyed seeing this one come together.

[Lucky_1]

Great work nightwoodwolf !

Lucky

[UncleZ]

wow nightwoodwolf ... scary, silly, funny, and perfectly finished love this one.

[threetails]

Got to say that this is a great one. Wonderful lighting, It has come together very well.

[XSI Apprentice]

Sweet as, the lighting and render look really good :)

[fizzy]

Yeah looks like you've nailed the lighting now. This has been solid work from the start. Nice going!



Pete B

[animastur]

Good render and funny picture!

[Vexona]

nice work with the character. great WIp shots as welll.

[calum5ZB]

One image that has covered everything for me , goodluck !

[GregV]

Thank you for the great fun. :tu: Awesome work.:tu: Cheers.

[nightwoodwolf]

your words are very appreciated n' i wish everybody the best luck, thank you.

[Rastaman]

Beautifull.

A very good work. :tu:
Good look.

[panstar]

Great concept/modeling and texture. I like the humour as well.

Good luck

[LittleDedder]

really nice work

[dustbin1_uk]

Hey Nightwolf!

Now the forums are open again and the competition is over, I just wanted to say that it was very entertaining seeing your amazing picture come together. You really did well and I loved the feel of the whole thing. It was very Terry Pratchett in it's feel and I guess that's why I liked it so much.

Shame it wasn't in the top 3. It deserved to be for the effort and skill you put in, and you also showed us in detail how you made this image.

Well done.

[nightwoodwolf]

thanks friend ,,, It was nice to work with you and the other artists. I was honored and I am really glad I partcipated in this contest .. I will work with you in the next contest here on ZBC... more luck. :tu: