Scared silly entry by Peter Butler

[dustbin1_uk]

Ewwww! Like the guts! The monsters are looking great!

[fizzy]

Sneakpeak at the layout of the scene.

[dustbin1_uk]

I can see this is going to be awsome fizzy, the bikes and the torn up body parts are worng and funny at the same time.

You doing and all nighter to get this done?

[fizzy]

Hey Dustbin. I've just finished one of the monsters, he's rendering now and I have the background ready to go. Still need to add a final touch to the little guy and then it's just rending them out.

Need sleep now. I'm stil at work and people are going to start coming in soon. I really need sleep though so might just see if I can get few hours before coming back in for work . Not sure they'll pleased to know why I didn't get any sleep


Pete B

[fizzy]

Ok, well I left this rendering at 7 this morning but the guy who's machine I was using (he's the only one with a copy of Modo 301) had to stop it when he came in as he needed to get on with work. So this is the first character almost done. Going to render the rest of him in a bit.

Then obvioulsy the others tonight.


Pete B

[dustbin1_uk]

Hahaha I love how cute he's trying to look, while holding a torn apart limb behind his back!

[fizzy]

Hey thanks Dustbin1. I;m actually quite pleased with his expression. It's suprising what a difference it makes when you add eyes. Even though in the sculpt I had spheres to represent them you never really know what emotion they're going to bring.

I'm a bit worried that it might be a little too twisted, what do you reckon?

I'm getting worried I'm not going to get it done in time. I can't start till about 7 tonight as that's when the other guy leaves work. While I'm waiting about I'll post up a lot of the props I made, something to keep me busy.

Hey good work on the tilers by the way, glad you added the reflection and shadows, really connects the whole scene. So you all done now watching from the side lines as some of us struggle to finish

Pete B

[dustbin1_uk]

Trouble is my sense of humour is already quite twisted, as you can tell from my entry. So I find this whole concept really funny.

Possibly the kids bikes are little too far, people can get funny about it sometimes.

Keep the limb behind his back. That's funny!

[fizzy]

I did thik that which is why they're more mountain bikes as I was thinking along the lines of those annoying teenagers you get who throw eggs.

I have actually got a pumpkin basket with sweets spilt across the drive which I guess is probably going against this line of thought so maybe I should replace it with some eggs as if the kids were going to throw them befor egetting eating...so in a way the monsters have done the woman a favour...well in till they eat her that is.

I really don't know I really just want to go with it as it is. I wish everyone had my twisted sense of humour


Pete B

[dustbin1_uk]

Fizzy, here's the best advice I could give:

MAKE WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY! NOT OTHERS!

If you worry about it appealing to others, then it looses your style and sense of humour. I made you paranoid about the bikes. I still think it's a great concept and certainly will fit the competition, and the trick or treat basket is a god idea.

I was worried people would get offeneded at my entry at first, but then I thought, what the hell, I'm doing this for me and the sillyness of the comp, and I no don't regret it.

If you cut bits out to keep people happy you'll regret it later!

honestly keep it as is, in my opinion it's all good.

[fizzy]

Cheers I really appreciate your feedback.
The way I see it is art is art and if it creates different reactions to different people then I guess it's done it's job. Like someone here just told me. How the person reacts says more about them then the work itself.


Pete B

[dustbin1_uk]

That's the spirit, and I fully agree. Now back to it! <whip crack>!!!

Sorry, I'm just iching to see this one complete, if you work so far is anything to go by it's going to be a good'n!!

[fizzy]

Well I don't know if you're still up Dustbin but I'm almost done. I wanted to post some more bits and pieces but the computer is too busy rendering.

It's been a really hard slog. There's been moments of fear, joy and quite alot of swearing but I'm really glad I entered this competition. It's weird as I'm sure Zbrush and many other sites run these competitions a lot so it's probably true of all of them but I really felt a great community spirit on this one.

I just think it's really funny thinking of all of us all around the world rushing to get this finished.

I should have my final piece up in the next hour or so. I don't actually knwo how I've kept going today, I think I've had about 3 hours sleep in the last 48 hours. I have a feeling this weekend is going to be a nice relaxing one...well except for all the fireworks.


Pete B

[fizzy]

Right well while I'm waiting for it to render some final bits out I thought instead of looking aimlessly at the screen I'd use this time to do something constructive so I thought I'd just post up some stuff to show how I done some of the things in my scene...not that you've actually seen it yet.

Anyway so here goes.

First of all here's some pics of some leaves I made for the drive way. All they are are a flat plane with some textures and normal maps on.

[fizzy]

Here is a one of the trees in the near background. Again all it is is a flat plane with a colour, diffuse and normal map on.