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zoo poster

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#1

Hi all, Here is a timely piece.

I’m the 3D supervisor at a post production company in Atlanta called Artistic Image.
We put this poster together for the city zoo in order to promote the opening of their haunted house this season.
The concept is fairly simple in that the elephant has wrapped himself up like a mummy in hopes of participating.

I created all the 3D elements using Zbrush and Maya.
The elephant was pretty straight forward, building a low rez poly mesh in Maya and brining it into ZBrush to create displacement maps based on the hi rez poly (You all know the drill.) The cloth wrapping was then created using the SubTool “Extract” function.
The pieces were then rendered in Mental Ray and the final touches were added (such as the fog and spider webs) by my supervisor and co founder Ed Die using PhotoShop.

final_zoobooMummymy2a.jpg

John Wissler

www.artisticimage.com

#2

:smiley:

wa

#3

It’s a great image overall, except the “cloth” wrapping is looking a bit thick, more like pie crust dough.

#4

Initial impression very cool…

If you want my critique, there are a couple of details that would have made this piece more “finished”

1-the branches infront of the moon are transparent.
2- I would have taken some of the straps and soft selected them in certain areas like the trunk and pulled it down… So it hangs instead of hugs.
3-Adjust the position of the sign. Currently his trunks are aligned with the bottom of the one post… And actually the scale is really high. Think how high that sign would be if a human were in the scene. It throws off the scale of the elephant… actually that whole fence would look better smaller
4-The pumpkin next to his leg is not pushed back far enough into the image… I’d adjust either the position saturation, or contrast to move it back where it belongs.
5-His front left foot doesnt look grounded in the scene

Nice work guys!!!

#5

actually upon further inspection… his back left leg is clipping some foreground elements…

#6

Hey Brutikong,
Thanks for the feedback.
After reading your comments I realized, I uploaded the wrong comp.
That was an older version.
I do agree with what you said about pulling the wrapping down
on the trunk. I should have thought to do that around other places as well.
I would have help sell it.

#7

I like the image, not sure what it’s actually about though :slight_smile:

Justin