Character: Meduse !!!

[CroitiX]

wow thats very nice man!
:thumbsup:

[typeA]

there seams to be a strange black line on her chest

[Joril]

Wow, I saw this one in the challenge, looks really awsome now.
The chest does look a bit weird. The head and the snakes are really kick ass.
(About the eyes, wouldn't it look good if you put a little iris texture on it? Just the structure of it. Just a thought though. :D )

[Jan]

Great job! I already feel becoming stone :applause:
But she seems to be frightened. Is Perseus there to cut off her head? I love old greek tales!

[baby]

scary:eek: :surprised

[Wylander]

Holy smoke- thats a frightful pic ya got there!

Kick ass!



:thumbsup:

[JBruckner]

Nice, although the snakes are nindered by the lighting you have, a bit too bright. I think that the eyes are going to change the whole thing and make it look loads better.:wip:

[toma]

6:24 am

well...

just will post a real critique later...

[Gameleo]

Good model, for me it' s too bright, why white?
good wotk:applause:

[Pistols]

Hey thanks for the kind posts :thumbsup:

The Strange Black Line is just a non-welded chest...
shame on me

i put this light in her back just to have a fun render, and because I don't know how to light really well

And for the eyes, I'm on it !


toma : eheheh I know what u did last ... night :)

[stephen2002]

:eek: GAAAA :eek:

The eyes need help, also the texture map on her chest looks rather low-res.

Otherwise, nice model. She looks about as scared as the person looking back at her.

[Phrank]

its all in the eyes ;) ...
try to give them more substance - for illuminated eyes, give them a glow... and not forget to put some textures on (even it it seems like if it would make no difference to some eyes without textures.. know what i mean?)
lighting isnt perfect, too but im sure u are going to improve that. :D
exept that: REALLY GOOD!!

[Mangled Poly]

thats really cool i really like how you composed that model makes it almost 1000x better

[dungbeetle]

y'know, maybe a low light from the front can add the dramatic eerie feeling. :)

[Pistols]

mangled poly : that's what I wanted to do ....
The model itself is not so detailed (snakes are all the same ...etc), I work a lot on mapping (unfortunatly it's difficult to see) but the posing was the funiest part !

Jan ; stephen2002 :
I wanted to put on her face some kind of madness, mixed with a bit of suffering too... I wanted her to be tortured.

dungbeetle : thanks for the tip, check the next render


Im looking for inspiration about lighting (70's and 80's horror movies-like )

... any help will be welcome!

[toma]

Hi Pistols...

That time I have been able to sleep :) i just thought i would first go to *puke* last time I came writing in this thread... not because of your model, but because of that "flooded" night ;)

OK my brain and stomach are now almost completely healed, so I'll do my best to give you constructive advice.

Here we go.
First, I like it. This pose is so wicked, so weird, it is really expressive. That's true too that this "creature" looks a bit scared, as stephen2002 said bedore. Is it done on purpose ? Otherwise, it would be nice to remove that "scared" feeling of her face.

I have the impression that with that lighting, you loose the detail on her face, and I think it's a pity, because her face is really well modeled and textured. As dungbeetle said, maybe you could add a some light source in front of her, at the bottom to gain detail on this area.

About the chest, I think that the "purple" part (lower) looks almost not from the same model. The separation between the "dress" and the skin is a bit too sharp.

And maybe in the composition you could add something. I don't know exactly what... Maybe trying to remove the hands from the front of the body, making it easier to read her pose. Do you see what I mean ?

Anyway, that's a great artwork. Please keep going and show more !!!

ahh btw, cute Avatar ! ;)
Bye Pistols

toma.

-- 12h15 bonlieu

[TIO_MATT]

I AM NOT SURE ABOUT THAT THUMB FINGER...!!..PROPORTIONS LOOKS...STRANGE...LIGHTING IS FINE...

[Pistols]

Here is another cool camera angle ...

eyes still the same


http://pistols.free.fr/meduse02.jpg

[baby]

I think the first one was working very well...(better)

the thing I love on this one is the wet look of the snakes !!! :thumbsup:

most important thing is the feeling that comes from the pic...much more than showing modeling details or stuff like that...
the purpose/aim more than the technique(even if it's pretty good here)...

I mean the white one was very scary...and it's not easy to scare with a such bright picture !!!! it's a very intersting contrast indeed...the pure reassuring white become evil/very scary...

The black one doesn't work as much...much more classic/less original...and I think much less scary...

voila that's all...

[Henrik Hörlin]

I'm sitting in a dark room and that pic just poped up on the screen and that thing scared the SHIT out of me!!! (metaphorically)

Scary! Damn scary!

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[slaughters]

I liked the lighting in the first image better. It seemed much more dramatic. It has a contrast, or harshness to it that seems to fit well with the image of the monster you made.

As for eyes you just might cheat a little and use lensflares or glows for the eyes. Something simular to this:

http://users.ev1.net/~slaughters/images/Halloween2001-7.jpg

[piajartist]

great picture and concept, i also noticed the black line, and the cutoff of the chest towards the bottom

[Wiro]

Wow, great model! I like the first pic way better because she actually almost looks translucent, her expression looks like she IS suffering (which I do love) and the tilt and bend of her head comes over better, giving it more of a surreal feeling. What I'm not sooo keen on is the pure white light. Maybe something else could happen behind her in addition to the light? Like the edge of a doorway (as if someone just opened up a door and out she pops). It's just that it looks a bit empty.

I like the color of the eyes though, I think green might not fit into the rest of the colorscheme.

Great work!

Wiro

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