Hey I call this one sewer man if you dont have a name for him. He looks like he would attack one of the X-Men should they enter a hidden area of the New York sewer line. OOo that would be a good storyline for him wouldnt it? hehe
wow, you show people great work and in return they spit on you.
Steven - I still watch your reel over and over.
sad, really. Its amazing, the nerve some people have. What amazes me most, though, is that someone could think he would get away with it in such a niche and involved community as this. And such a top row piece, had to know that someone would recognize it. “Hey, I’ll just crop in some face, turn it to greyscale and add some nifty filter, no one will notice”.
Well, keep up the good work, dude. We’ll keep hunting for the lazy ass copycats.
Immesnly inspiring! Such detail. It’s fantastic. Creepy too.
it appears that steven chen’s plagiator posted his crap on other sites too
http://gallery.artlimited.net/image/index.php?id=35771&lg=en#tab
I found his sh*t on deviantart too.
Miuky contacted us and asked that we pass the following apology along:
" I’m sorry but this image - Monster- had no restriction to download at the time I’ve found it, i really cannot remember where and when exactly, but it was more than 2 years ago. I found it really amazing, and as I was still learning how to use photoshop, and I had no opportunity to get this kind of picture by myself, no camera, no light effects and no knowledge, I used your Monster, to make a monster of myself, my face upon the background you’ve made to get to people my message. I’m sorry for that, someone who admires you a lot, or you, send to me several very unpolite messages, but I can understand, and I’ve erased right away my picture from every gallery I remembered I’ve posted it. I appology in advance, I wont be able to delete it from my own site within 2 month, my server master is not reachable until then, and I had a system crashed down, so I can’t enter into the server. There are some sites, where posted images cannot be delate by the user, so I’ll write to administrators to do that as soon as possible. Let me tell just this last thing. I don’t make money with any of pictures where I used ‘not-mine’ parts, I don’t sell but some of photos ‘click-and-post’, and you can count those on fingers of just one hand, so… I’m not a prof, I just express myself as good as I can, with what I have…and that’s not much… Please, do not hate me, I’m really sorry for what I did… All my regards, M."
I can’t imagine how somebody could be so thick as to beleive they could get away with plagiarism on an open channel global network called the internet. It’s as obvious today as if you were to put your face over the Mona Lisa and hold a grand opening for the atrocity in Italy.
Paul.
PS: I love your work Steve, don’t let this put a stopper on your creativity and sense of wonder. All the best.
How did you go about creating these textures? Did you polypaint in zbrush or did you go into photoshop?
where is this guy? He posts the best reel ive ever seen and then disappears publicly?
Chen - Your mastery over topology is intimidating, id love to see an update as to what your doing lately.
Can you post a link to his reel? I would like to see it. Also Chen, tell us alittle about how you texture.
where did this dude go? still very inspiring work.
Heh still around, i am currently doing look dev at Blizzard cinematic, havent done any modeling works for years now…