cyberpet 3: mecca pillar

[LavenPillay]

Sweet!
Dude that 'hopper looks wicked. In fact i frikken' love it! ;D

With regrard to the composition, the most obvious problem is that the focus is not correct.
Since you have the little bugger almost completely done, i would suggest using a different leaf image for the background. One thats in focus.

I'm not much of a photographer, but the trick is that if your final "photograph" was taken close up then, depending on the camera lens' focal charactistics, either both the leaf and the hopper would be in focus, or both out of focus.
Obviously since you want the little jumpin' insectoid to be in focus, the easiest thing i can think of is :
1. getting/creating a photograph of leaves the way you want with at least the foreground in focus
2. place the grasshopper in there
3. choose light source and add appropriate lighting and shadows to make the 'hopper look "in place"
4. <optional> Blur out the background, if necessary, so the focus is on the foreground.

Try this site, Stock Exchange, for royalty free stock photography.
Stock Exchange - http://www.sxc.hu

Again, the grasshopper itself looks amazing.
Where can i see the rest of your "pets" ?

[shyamshriram]

Hey Good one :)
keep it up! :thumbsup:
btw if u put some shodows it will look more beautiful :)

[solipsism]

Hey Good one :)
keep it up! :thumbsup:
btw if u put some shodows it will look more beautiful :)

didnt do any of the green reflections or the shadow work yet, about half done I would say.
as far as focus, there is a real grasshopper underneath that i was going to match the focus of once all the chroming was done.

[pongball]

Holy sweet mother of pearl. Do you have any tutorials on your work dude? That HAS to be CG. I'm not kidding. Get the leaf right and you have yourself a CGTALK award winner, hands down.

[solipsism]

redid the leaf...still more to do

[SebastianPatric]

Seems like you used distorted photos to assemble the grasshopper. It would look more interesting if you painted your lighting in a more organized and dynamic fashion. In fact, it might be easier to paint the whole thing instead of stitching it together. I've tried something similar once and I wasn't happy with the results, but if you think you can get this looking right, I wish you good luck.

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