Scared Silly entry by Alex Velazquez

[AngelJ]

Brutikong,

Thanks for the laugh my friend, I had a good one when I saw the update with the before and after type pics. Hope they can be seen somewhere decently because its very very funny.. adds more mirth to the image!! Can't wait to see more.. MORE!

[dustbin1_uk]

YAY! Good to see your still here! Looking forward to this one!!

[threetails]

Kick Its A** and lets see the final result, this is a very cool sculpt and concept, I hope to see this complete, its a winner for sure.

[Brutikong]

I thought I would preface my Final post with my thoughts on my entry, my motivation behind it and my experience on this contest.

When I started, I knew I wanted to do something different. I wanted to make a piece that worked outside the boundaries of this contest, and outside of Halloween in general. Something that could work in July and ultimately something I could frame and put up on my wall.

I knew I wanted to make a piece that had some stylization, but that was rendered pretty realistic. And that had a subtle humor. Basically I wanted to make a Norman Rockwell painting in 3d. The more I worked on it the more I knew I wanted to make my piece a kind of homage to his work. If you don't know Norman Rockwell I encourage you to google him. It guarantee it will be worth your time.

I don't count how many megs or polys I use, but I used Max and mental ray for rendering the enviroment. I created a base mesh for Frankenstein (tweaked in Max), detailed, textured (polypainting and zapplink), and ultimately rendered him using multiple passes with standard and custom materials in zbrush. He was then composited and tweaked into my max rendered scene in photoshop.

It was a great learning experience, I definitely know zbrush much better than I did when I started the contest, Although I still can't figure out what a multi marker is for..

Anyway enough of that.. This is my final entry, thanks to all who commented and helped me finsh this piece.. I'm pretty happy with it.

[KOSOVA]

Looking Awsome.Good luck.

[-WOODY-]

That is excellent. I'm glad you stuck with it and finished the contest. The rendering is perfect with the radiosity and soft lighting. It does have that Norman Rockwell feel to it.

Great job.

[boozy floozie]

Amazing work - I love the subtlety of your idea.

[AngelJ]

Brutikong,

Really glad you got it finished and I'm sure your as happy as we are that you did!! Gotta love the rockwell homeage. Regardless of the contest this one rocks, and we are the winners having been able to see it completed!!

[Carsten Lind]

This is simply brilliant!! I love it!

[Lucky_1]

I missed your entry somehow...

This is absolutely fantastic work...

Lucky

[sasquatchpoacher]

Love it! Render looks great

[dustbin1_uk]

Wow! Simply awsome work! Glad you stayed, in the comp. This one is clearly a winner!

[kramskoi]

Great Job man... I havent been following these Scared Silly posts since there are SOOO many of them. Just waiting for the voting to take a look at all of them but I did click yours today and Im glad I did. Really nice job. The final render is beautiful.

[sephirothsinic]

very nice idea execution and render ")!!

[aminuts]

As a big Rockwell fan...I think you did him justice with this pic....the overall look and definitely has that "catch/caught" a moment in time with humor and humility look that Rockwell did so well. I hope you don't mind but I am gonna use as wallpaper for a bit...very well done!!