Red Skull WIP

[bladeflush]

Aside from the channel offset and levels and saturation adjustments in Photoshop here is the composite breakdown

[z-m]

that’s a amazing and beautiful work. The Character looks very awesome.
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z-m@n

[wasa]

while i do like the final image, the focus is off and therefore gives me a headache within a short period of time
the main figure should be in focus, but is slightly out of focus

[Darukin]

I hate to get into this controversy, but I just have to ask what your problem is with the Nazi emblems, hell666, Dali.P. The Red Skull is a villian who was a nazi. That’s his character. When you watch Indiana Jones and you see nazis, and swastikas, does that upset you as well? I think you’re both may be a little overly sensitive. Is it possible?
What if someone who is Christian took offense to the name hell666? Would you change your name? The point I’m trying to make is that it’s just a character. He portrayed him accurrately with nazi symbols. Nazism was an ugly part of history, yes, but it did happen. He isn’t glorifying Nazis. In fact, I think the opposite. Personally, I think it looks great. To each his own.

I agree with this comment completely, was about to say this until I noticed you beat me to it Derek. It’s funny coz I just watched Inglorious basterds, so for those who are frustrated to see this, when u watch movies which portray Nazis (and either way when they do they villify them anyway, it’s the whole concept of ‘never again’ so we shouldn’t forget), does it frustrate you? when u say the symbol is forbidden does it mean movies which portray Nazis and swastikas are disallowed in German cinemas?

Either way, I respect everyone’s feelings but I think we should judge this as an artpiece for what it is only. And in art we should have freedom, that’s what art is about, unless of course it glorified evil or is racist/offensive which I don’t believe this is, if anything it associates Nazism with evil and villifies it, like movies.

Great job bladeflush, excellent model and render, but I agree slightly about the camera focus!

[caffeineandpixels]

Awww, poor Germany. They get offended seeing Nazi symbols???
Tell that to the families of the Jews, Gypsies, Gays, Artists, Politicians, and everyone else who was killed for opposing them and see if they have any sympathy for you. That is the stigma and burden that Germans will always carry with them, and rightfully so. Do they want people to ignore it and act as though it never happened? They saw the trains full of people. They saw the slums being cleared and windows being smashed, and they smelled the bodies being cremated. They ignored it.
Red Skull is a villain. He is a Nazi. Deal with it.