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[froyd]

Hi dear community,
time for another piece, I thought. Its dedicated to someone special and I worked on it with soaring enthusiasm. I´ve gone some of the "good old" ways, those very handy techniques I easyly forget about all the monsterhead-modeling, but also some of the actual and popular things like rendering different passes to compose them inside PS. Any of your comments is very welcome:

some closeups at original resolution (2600x1950):

I used 3 types of plants to populate the ground behind the fence (rest of bg is a photograph):

http://static.flickr.com/46/106205882_66ad20712e_o.jpg

it took a lot of time according to that small part of the image, but it was a good exercise. To save me work i used a adjusted depthgrab of the fence layer as a stencil, i just needed the room between the fence plank.


the fence itself was quite an easy job:

http://static.flickr.com/19/106205881_d2859689c6_o.jpg

I took a Plane3D (init-parameter for x/y-res changed to 6) and made a polymesh out of it. Then I hid all poys except one row, deleted the hidden parts andpressed tool->deformation->unify to bring that row to center. After that I stored the morphtarget and displaced the row in z-direction by -5 and clicked morphtaret->create difference. That will result in a new tool with appropriate edgeflow for later dividing. then texturing and at the end at a high subdiv-lvl using the texture or a modified version of it as mask to deform (deformation->inflate) the tool with the cares of the wood-tex.
The screws in the fence are made of pure jantim-metal

The butterfly was the most fun part and I recorded a ZScript how I modeled the base with zspheres. I hope it runs without errors and you can enjoy watching!

http://static.flickr.com/52/106205880_0403a855c2_o.jpg

Download the butterfly-ZScript here!

Every comment and every crit is very appreciated, so dont hesitate to drop your oppinion


greets
froyd

[theXbucket]

hi froyd,

I like your piece! A totally different work than most of the others did so far.

cheers
xbucket

[DHARMAESTUDIO]

I love evrything on the image, color composition, detaills.
congrat!!!
hope this sopmeone special love it too!!!!
Arturo

[Zoetrope]

The details are really nice, I like how it starts to look like a pencil drawing up close. The clover is so green an fresh while the wood is so dry and the butter fly is crisp and delicate. A nice place to rest my eyes...
Thanks for posting

[Erklaerbar]

top Love it.

[Blaine91555]

Awesome! Thanks for the script. I'm getting ready to do some insects and it is very helpful.

[froyd]

theXbucket, DHARMAESTUDIO, Zoetrope, Erklaerbar, Blaine91555- thanks a lot for your kind comments, I´m glad about them and happy that you like it. The person that image is for will see it tomorrow and with your words you ease my mind when i wonder if she´ll like it.

If you want to see a bigger version click here.
Again, thanks for watching!


greets
froyd

[JackHorner]

Beautifull scene!

I salute you!

[Frenchy Pilou]

Cool tut and script
Old school is always terrific
Bravo!
Pilou

[jantim]

Did not know you were such a romantic guy ....the picture could use some trolls..and bloodstains on the wood ..Now Seriously,.. great picture Froyd and clever use of the attractor ZSpheres..have to do more with these ZSpheres !

jantim

[Cral]

Hi froyd, nice picture
I particulary like the butterfly. Great textures

[mathieu77]

Froyd it s very cool pic. Can u explain more deeply the way you texture the fence? Tried once did look like wood fence at all.

Thanks
Matt

[lm]

Nice artwork and tutorial.

[Atwooki]

Beautiful image and explanation, froyd - thanks

Chris

[Izikael]

So much atmosphere, like a summers day in your childhood. Beautiful, and different