Fund Raising
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Fund Raising
Just a little image idea I needed to get out. Basically, a little alien is stranded on Earth and is try to raise money to repair his ship and make it home. Unfortunately, no one is paying attention or helping him much, but he keeps a smile on his face.
Used the usual programs for this (ZBrush, Max, Photoshop, and Brazil). Unfortunately I don't have many update shots for this since it was a marathon run with little stopping.
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Stereo version of the above image. Red goes over your left eye. |
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Here's an animated GIF showing the progress of the models and materials. Some of the colors are messed up due to the GIF compression, but should give an idea. One thing about this scene is almost every material has some reflective properties to it. This really helped anchor the material to the scene. Also, the scene is comprised of one HDR map and one spot light. I really liked lighting it this way instead of painting with light since the HDR image I had closely matched this urban setting. I'm not happy with the jacket, but ran out of time to make the deadline. May revisit it to finish, but initial sculpting in ZBrush turned out to be a bit "blobby". Need more practice making sharp edges and corners. ZBrush v2.5's Flatten brush should help with this. |
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Busted up space ship. Just a bunch of rust and grime maps with simple spherical projection maps. |
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Started dirtying up the ship. Who would have thought futuristic materials would rust so easy... |
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Nice clean space ship about to get neglected. Love that chrome look, though. :) |
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Simple color test. |
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Original concept for this image. Basically, a little alien is stranded on Earth and is try to raise money to repair his ship and make it home. Unfortunately, no one is paying attention or helping him much, but he keeps a smile on his face. |