At The Funfair, Carl-mikael Lagnecrantz (3D)

[ErnoBoy]

awsome man, I like it.. very good texture work and scene setup.
Good ground work, you can easily see that its not flat with a texture map over.
maybe little to much blur effect behind the character.?

PS. Can you tell me how you did the ground? Iam not familiar to that technique?

4stars from me!

[rawwad]

HaHa, Great:applause:

[ewrt]

...hehe. that's crazy. makes me laugh too. great work

[francomanko]

excellent work...love the string vest :)

[DAREONER]

nice composition, i like the little rat, good job.

[mindrot]

Hehe!! This is funny. That boot.... that expression... priceless :scream:

Like that mousey thing.

Depth of field is also a nice touch.

Quality..

[JocHaan]

super job :thumbsup:

[mv]

excellent , as usual :) great mood.The blurring in the background looks strange (some edges are very sharp), is it intentionnal ? it does give a surreal / illustrative look compared to the realistic shading and lighting of the scene, but it can be misinterpreted. Anyway great piece, I like that character very much .

[X96]

Pure Genius!:buttrock:

[Romero]

Amazing character, great style

[Lc]

I love the character, and the textures ^^

well done :) :thumbsup:

[Koen86]

Haha, the "shoe"hat is very cool! you got an eye for little details.
maybe you could improve the mouse, by giving it hair.

gr koen

[pthomas72]

That Rules!!!

[TheThidMan]

Looks great, however i think the grass looks a bit dodgy, it looks like its floating. But otherwise, its excellent!

[ErikSvensson]

Riktigt fint :) Kul med en svensk förstasidetallang.:thumbsup: Keep up the good work!

//Erik

[Shortricci]

Ohh chuckle chuckle, the mans got a boot on his head, legendry!

Yes, a very nice and funny image you've made!

Congratulations! :thumbsup:

[RockinAkin]

Amazing image... no crits at all.
Great work Rivendale.

[geoffrey]

LOL. Love the string vest and the boot on his head.
Foreground seems a bit burned out but maybe that's just my monitor.
Background has strange DOF
Cool though:thumbsup:

[AlexLiki]

Beautiful! Great work.

[madart]

Great image! Like the humour and style.

A couple of things I noticed, I think the composition of the image could be improved if the man were moved a little to one side, so that he's not so much in the middle of the image.

The shoe on his head is a little stiff maybe, maybe if it was pushed down a little further and the toe of the shoe dipped down towards his head, gravity pulling it down.

I like the little details you've got scattered around the image. Great work!

[DaddyMack]

OK CML... Now you're just showing off!..

Congrats on a most memorable character mate:thumbsup:... Also saved to my 'bent' folder;)

[Rivendale]

Wow, thanks a lot for the nice comments and feedback, thanks for the frontpage plug as well! It was a lot of fun working on this so I'm glad you enjoy it. Thanks for the comments on the mouse too, It's good you noticed. He has found a nice spot there I think. :P

To answer some questions:
ErnoBoy - Thanks, the ground is a plane that is highly tesselated near the camera and less further back. It has a few noise modifiers for larger variations and a displace modifier. Then there is also details in the bumpmap and some manual vertex tweaking.

m@ - Thanks a lot, yes there are some sharper lines in the back. I didn't intend that at first but I noticed it and decided to keep it like that since I think they add something to it. Although if you focus on it I guess it can look a bit strange.

:)
CML

[Ramtin]

Oh I like fantastic jobs . and it too . great .
goodluck ...

[fattyLees]

"Baby Ruuuuuuuth?!"


sorry it just popped into my head when I saw his face on the front page...

[Tilstrom]

heh, that's pretty cool. nice work. :)

[jdsb]

oh man i say this from my heart, this is just so creatively brilliant that i dont know what to say about it....its brilliant...thats actually the first time i have used this word here

[beelow]

Solid stuff man, 5 stars, keep'em coming holla!:thumbsup:

[makaron]

nice image and funny.. makes me laff and the mouse is adorable... :applause: I really like the colors and the mood in this one...
snacka om att killen ser ut som en byfåne.... :bounce:

[olijosman]

Hehehehe.. I love it, it is a great image. Excellent design of the crazy man:applause:

[Juzz]

Hehe, I love it!

[loocas]

It's cool ;) Cartoony, cute and nice... I like it! http://forums.cgsociety.org/images/rating/rating_4.gif from me man! :bounce:

[Luciferul]

Awsome work. I love this fella ;)

[Mike.H]

lovely work and "fun", great job.

[Ultron]

I like it a lot!

Thx

[bahman]

I like Only Face and shoe on it.

It seems Grasses are floating , because they haven't shadow.
I think realy there is blood under his skin , good translucence matrial.
Is this SSS?

[Deathknight]

Haha thats GREAT!! I love it- the silly dude has a boot on hid head! reminds me of a dude I know who does that where I live with e organ and stuff................:buttrock:

[Rivendale]

Hey, thank you so very much for the nice feedback. I appreciate each of your comments very much.

bahman - yes it is subsurface scattering, the shader is based on the brazil skin shader wich I also used for the mouse and the cheese.:)

cheers,
CML

[RBerg45]

Great piece. I love the style. Nice job.

[richcz3]

Excellent. Priceless expression.
And the mouse and cheese round out the scene. :applause:

[luima]

awesome work!!! i like the mice character !!

[moondreams]

Good rendering. I love the lighting and shadows in this scene. Nice muted color, as well.

[HapZungLam]

great job. From character desing, to texturing, lighting, and overall colour composition are really well done.

[fr3drik]

Haha, great work! I love the character design!

It seems you might have some issues with the DOF ...did you do it in post?
If so, you could try to render out a 32-bit defocus/blur matte using a custom shader which would give you this kind of result:
http://homepage.mac.com/bauer/portfolio_shaders/zDepthDOF/gfx/zDepthDOF.gif
Black means focus and white is where you have defocus. This is not the same thing as a Z-depth render and you should render this antialiased.

[adel3d]

Excellent work:thumbsup:

[Windmill]

heheehe, funniest picture I've seen here, I like it alot. His expression is perfect but that boot is the touch of a master. :thumbsup:

Some issues with the DOF but I'm sure your aware of it

[Thewipe]

Hey , you did a great job !

i just have one comment on the blurring of the background , usually a very bright sun will not cause the camera to have a very shallow depth of field , meaning a very bright sun will sharpen all the object up to the back , but of course maybe thats why this picture is very special because to blur the bg in a very sunny day is weird .

nice work!

[akin]

very nice work. l liked the mouse most :)

[rosasylum]

wow...nice character :thumbsup:

[Rivendale]

Thanks a lot all!:)

Fredrik Averpil - Yes I did it in post with the help of a z-depth pass. I did actually have a completely blurred transition at first but I later added more layers on top wich still had details so I ended up doing much of it manually. Maybe I should go over that part once more, but I can't update the image here now anyway I think. Thanks for the suggestion.

CML

[mschrd110]

Nice work, I like the concept. The only issue I see with the image is the shadow colors. It seems like your value gradation is backwards. I think the shadows closest to the camera should be darker than the shadows in the distant. Also, all the shadows should be darkest at the base of the object casting the shadow, gradually getting lighter as they go away fro the object. This is only my opinion, regardless the image looks amazing

[Rivendale]

mschrd110 - Thanks. In bright sunlight the light is very paralell so there will not be much fading to the shadows in that situation. They will be pretty sharp. Not sure what you mean about the gradation, but the shadows in the front are lightened up by what is supposed to be a slightly dusty atmosphere. Thanks for the feedback.

CML

[SUS]

heee heee :) !!! excellent work!

Great characters! and great concept and style!

Love it !

[Rambiert]

Excellent image. I love "One Man Band" :) in your performance.

[reventadin]

Excellent character! is seen at the same time really very good, very graceful and very interesting!
Great style!

[astronomus]

great work:thumbsup:

[Rivendale]

Thanks a lot for the support and feedback.:thumbsup:

CML

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