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Here's my entry for
 's Bee competition [link]I'll probably keep working on this a bit more since it's still over a month and a half until the deadline and a piece like this doesn't really risk being overworked. It can still do with a bunch more detail and roughening up. Only thing I really need to be carful with is bright colours since they're important in keeping the focus here. Any crits, comments and suggestions of course welcome. Some elements, most notably the basic shape of the setting, modeled and rendered in Blender [link] . The rest painted in Photoshop. Used a couple of brushes by David Nagel (a ground cover brush and a canvas texture brush) and John Kearney (hair brushes from an ImagineFX tutorial), but mostly just my own. edit: There. A bunch of detailing and some atmospheric stuff and I think this one is ready to be submitted. If you want to look a little closer, click download for a somewhat higher res picture. edit: A small tweak to make use of some suggestions I got on Polykarbon. edit II: Added some stronger textures. The ground texture is based on a photo I took of the rusty hull of a beached ship, quite heavily painted over. |
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"Just coz someone hates you, doesn't mean you have to put in the same effort of hating them too."
So what'd you do, render it in blender and then do a paint over?
I'll see what I can do with the monk. I really need to get more practice at character painting.
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"And much of Madness and more of Sin/and Horror the Soul of the Plot" E.A. Poe.
Now with these latest tweaks I'm starting to feel it's almost finished.
There is so much emotion in that bee - the pose doesn't say dead, it says defeated and it's just beautifully done.
Like you said, I think the stone work especially needs roughening up. Take a look over on `pendlestock I've got a few textures that may come in handy
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Tasty Juice - drink it then convert it to pee.
I did end up basing the ground texture on a photo, though in the end I used one of my own. It's actually a rust texture, but with a lot of tweaking I think it came out quite nice.
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