Spectacular 3D Entry: Marco Fantechi

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This is my starting point. It's a very quick sketch of the image I have in my mind: A big spaceship full of lights breaks the speed limits; two italian police officers check its driver, a strange alien, as they usually do in these cases...

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I try to find the right point of view and the right position of the characters and of the vehicles. I'm looking for a very imposing shoot. The spaceship has to look wonderfull, beautifull and dangerous

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I start to think about the design of the spaceship. I like this shot. For now, I'll work on it

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I forgot:It's night.

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A closer look at the characters area.

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This is a sketch of the first police officer's attitude.

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This is the othe police officer. He's checking the alien's driving licence...

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This is the alien. I was working on this character few weeks ago and I decided to put him in this scene. I like his face and I think he will work very well in this situation.

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This is the first color version of the alien made few weeks ago. I started it for another project, but he works fine in this scene...

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This is the first sketch of the head of the alien

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Some costume sketces of the alien. I'd like to mix in this dress a pyjama and something like the costumes of the some rock band of the '80es.

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Other ideas about the uniform of the alien

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Other ideas. I like the shape of the uniform on the shoulders, but I think it's too cumbersome...

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Well, I think it's time to begin the model now!

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I started to study the shape relations of the spaceship. I'd like to make it not so symmetrical...

[ChrisThatGuy]

I like your concept. Maybe you could do skid marks on the road weaving back and forth, so it looks like the alien was driving drunk. Good work.

[medunecer]

Thanks Chris!

Your advice is very interesting, but maybe I can put some speed limit signal back and forth, because I don't think the alien is really drunk...I have to think about it...Thanks again.

[gardogg]

Cool concept. Now go go go!

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Finally the first steps of the modeling of the alien. I'm going to finish the whole model this night (I hope so...)
Thanks Gardogg

[alex.h.]

great sketches and start on alien. see you and :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

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Thanks Alex! And good luck!

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This is the head of the alien (almost finished).
And now, the body!

[Pooyag]

aaaaa, you are Way Cool:bounce: I Love your Style Marco:wise: Keep it up man:thumbsup:

[YasushAzush]

very nice design on the alien face .... keep it up mate:thumbsup:

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Thanks fellows!

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Almost a complete alien! Late nigh, I have to sleep...

[mmoir]

Hey Marco,

I like the concept , very nice idea and your character sketches look great:thumbsup: . I also like the style you have to these sketches and hope it translates well into 3d.

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Thanks mmoir! Today I'llpost a bigger render. Good luck!

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Here are the cops. This is an old concept of mine that I used as a reference for my first cop model, made three months.

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A closer look to the heads of the cops.

[(o)ne]

hey, you have nice idea! looking forward to see it in 3D :thumbsup:

[medunecer]

thanks (o)ne!

[MacAndre]

i like your sketches and chars. modeling it very good to. you alien has so mutch charakter, even you do not added the textures.
i´am sure this will be a spectacular entry. good luck to you... :thumbsup:

[medunecer]

Thanks mac_andre, I'm going to add some txtures in this week (I hope so)...now I'm quite worried about the spaceship modeling...Thanks again!

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This is the model of one of the cops. He's an italian policeman (carabiniere) and he is the fellow of the other patrolman.

[gardogg]

Keep up the pace. Good work so far. Looking forward to more!

[WesleyTack]

awesome work!
both your drawing and modeling skillz amaze me :buttrock:

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Thanks fellows!

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I made a mistake. I was thinking to use this character that I modeled three months ago. But I read the instructions and I learn that I can't use models made out of this challenge...

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...I had to think about another character and I made some quick sketches...

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...so I retouched my story; Instead the italian cops, I'll put an american police officer of the highway patrol (I don't know yet which state) in the composition, a new character to model just for this challenge.

[gardogg]

Wow, I thought you just pulled an all nighter or something to get that done... Its too bad you can't use that cop model. Its cool! I'm sure you'll make a better one for this contest though ;)

[medunecer]

Thanks gardogg... I really need some encouragement after that news!
I hope to model something nice. If you have some advices about cops from your country, let me know! Thanks again!

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...so I retouched my story; Instead the italian cops, I'll put an american police officer of the highway patrol (I don't know yet which state) in the composition, a new character to model just for this challenge.

[gardogg]

Advice about cops from my country? Make at least one of them FAT! I'm not necessarily suggesting that they all are, however, its a funny popular stereotype that cops in this country are fat and like to eat donuts.

If you model this guy, I'll be SO HAPPY!

http://www.kellie.de/pics/fm3/justonedate2.jpg

This man starred in Family Matters, a popular tv show last decade. He also played a role as a cop in die hard. He'll be someone fun for you to caricature and I'm sure a ton of people will recognize him.

Some more pictures of him for ref can be found here (http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.kellie.de/fm1/fm_reg3.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.kellie.de/foto_fm3.htm&h=390&w=210&sz=14&tbnid=IiBkjSQ5ldYJ:&tbnh=120&tbnw=64&hl=en&start=2&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcarl%2Bwinslow%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN)

Hope that helps. Nice job so far!

[medunecer]

hey! I know that cop! We have the same tv show here in Italy and I saw it! You give me a nice idea! Thanks! I'll try to model him!

[gardogg]

Yippee! I'm glad to hear this! I think a tall and skinny white cop will be well complimented by a short and fat black cop. This serves to show the diversity of the people in America and it just works well in a aesthetic sense. I'm sure this will turn out very cool with your style of modeling!

[medunecer]

Thanks gardogg. I was thinking to made one of them mexican and the other black...what do you think?

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I think I'll make this one half mexican; In the scen we are next to the boder, maybe in the south california.

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Now it's time to model a police car!
Different nationality for the cops (in the very first concept they was italian), different nationality for the police car... Now we are in the U.S.A, maybe in south california...

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Dear fellows, I'm going on with car modeling. I hope to finish it tomorrow; in the same day I should start the spaceship modeling.

[authentic]

I didn't really take care about his thread because there were no nearly finished composition posted but now that I see the different element and the concept I think it can be really great.
Good luck.

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Well, I think it's finished now...

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ths is the other cop in the scene. It is a mod version of the first one.

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some ideas about the face of the second patrolman.

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I have to add more details, but it's quite finished...

[YasushAzush]

very nice stuff going on here dude ....:thumbsup:

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Finally he has a surface! Need more detail...

[ThierryS]

Totaly cool work man, I like your modeling it's very solid and looks cartoony at the same time.

Very nice rendering too, those last alien heads seem like they could be made with real materials. Keep going like this, your on to something! :applause: :beer:

[medunecer]

thanks thierry! You made me a great compliment!
Infact, I'm working on this: making a cartoon character more real in the same time.

[Gunilla]

Ecellent sketches and modeling here!
It looks like it can become a really good scene from this - lots of personality. Looking forward to see where it goes :thumbsup:

[medunecer]

Thanks Gunilla! I hope it's going in the right direction!...

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keep on texturing the cops...

[monks]

very good work and great style ! :thumbsup:
Really like your characters design, especially the cops ! Keep going!

[gardogg]

Awesome work so far man! I think you will have no problem getting done in time :thumbsup:

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Finally I made the sheriff logo; I drawn it thinking about the american police logo. In general, I'm not completely satisfied about the whole texturing of the car... I'm in trouble with reflections...

[Gunilla]

"Inspect and Restrain", haha - I love that tagline - very good :thumbsup:

I think the car looks good - perhaps a bit to much specularity on the tires ... but that's just details. You work very fast, and really well :)

[Atris]

Hi! Your idea is very great! I really like it! The very expressive characters! Especially I like the desing of the spaceship! It's so cool! I look forward to seeing your next updates! I wish you good luck! :)

[medunecer]

Thanks fellows!

Gunilla: You're right; I have to add more specularity on the tires.
I'm happy you like the logo!

Atris: Thanks for the encouragement and for your word!

Good luck to you fellows!

[jddog]

wow, very nice figure style, just I love it and the car fit perfectly this kind of style... sembra un modellino BBurago :wip: complimenti !
jdd

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Actors on stage, it's lighting time! This is my first step: in the third picture you see the scene with just one distant light and the ambiet set to 5.

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Some sketches about my idea of the final scene setup; There are some changes from the first concepts, especially about the camera angle and the expressions on the faces.

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...setting up the atmosphere...soon more details.

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I made some changes. Now the car's lights enhance the presence of the characters, but I still have troubles with the background.

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A clean version of the spaceship. It's very hard to light it in the scene because I don't want to add too much light but in the same time I don't want to loose details. Any sugestion?

[authentic]

I love the design of the ship. And nice texture. Congrats.

[Hoju]

Boy, I sure have come to this thread a little too late. Your idea kind of reminds me of Futurama – It has that same kind of attitude.:buttrock:

That looks like a difficult lighting situation. Perhaps you could have some light from the sirens hitting the under side of the space ship. You could also adjust the rim light from the moon to isolate the top of the ship from the background. The space ship has some nice details; I hope you are able to reclaim them.:)

[medunecer]

Hoju: Thanks for comparing my work to futurama! It's a great copmliment for a big fan of futurama like me! Thanks for the advices about lighting too. Very useful...I'll try it!


authentic: Thanks! I always think that its design is not so original. I'd like to make better design for the future models.

[meatpuppet]

great piece, a lot of style, character, and fun. i'm really digging it.

what about relying on the ship's self-illumination as much as possible? having all the little tiny lights on the ship lighting itself may solve your issues. it would also give the ship a greater sense of scale, which may help.

i also think the angle of the police car is a little weird. if you're going for a routine pullover feel i'd have the black and white simply pulled over to the side of the road. when it's at an angle like that it looks like they came to a screeching halt after a high-speed chase.

hope that helps.

cheers,

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I made the first rendering of the cops. Unfortunately, I realized that I have troubles with memory limits, so I'll made all the final rendering in a not so high resolution (approx 2600 high x 1800 wide).

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I made 5 different rendering of the spaceship blended together in photoshop in this single image.

[ThierryS]

Yep Marco, very nice ship model and super cool characters (the expressions are working well). The whole scene is so funny, hilarious stuff !:bounce: The only thing I think you should work on is some wrinkles on the pants and shirts of the police guys.:thumbsup:

[Hoju]

It looks like you’ve overcome your lighting issue with the ship.:thumbsup: How does it look in the scene with that lighting?

[MadnesS]

UHAUHAUHAUHAUAHA...

Great Ideia...

:thumbsup:

[Gunilla]

Oh - I really like that ship! The texture is fabulous :thumbsup:

[medunecer]

Thanks fellows for your words!

MadnesS: Thanks, I was afraid it was not a very original idea in the first time...!

Hoju: I'm having lot of troubles with lighting in general, and I don't know how to integrate the spaceship lights with the scene...

thierry2005: Right, I have to add some wrinkles on the pants and shirts of the cops. I hope to be in time!...

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Well, it's time to verify my idea. This is the final compositing; Now I have to adjust all the elements and add some effects.

[ilusiondigital]

ahahahaha, great great humour:

The funniest image i see in this challenge and overall an outstanding sketches, great designs too.

Good luck mate

[cLos71]

This is great! Hysterical! Keep it up, looking forward to seeing the final piece.

[(o)ne]

the ship is very nice!


but why the light comes from the side where camera is?

[shemosus]

i like the expressions on the officers faces a lot, i loke the idea too , it's really funny.:thumbsup:

[medunecer]

Thanks for your comments fellows!
I'm very pleased to hear your words!

shemosus: Thanks! I like the officers too and I prefer the one checking the driving license of the alien. He has a very disturbing expression.

(o)ne: You're right...I should make darker the ship. Thanks for the suggestion!

cLos71: Grazie! Your italian is very good! I hope you'll like the final piece too!

ilusiondigital: Thanks! I'm happy you like the sketches too!

Fellows, your words and crits give me a great charge! Thanks again! And good luck to you!

[SILMAETH]

Nice concept! really funny.
I think it would have been funny to have a more contrasted look between the 2 cops, I mean for example a shorter and fatter black cop.
You should work a bit more on the texture/shaders and lighting
What do you think?

[MoonVisionStudio]

Holy Smokes! That is one of the Funniest things I have seen on these boards!! I LOVE IT!

[medunecer]

Hi fellows!

Jose Pardo: thanks my friend! Your words really make me happy, especially after I saw your spectacular 2D entry that I consider simply wonderful!!!

SILMAETH: Sure, I was going to make the black cop shorter and fatter, but I had no time so I modified the mesh of the other cop's body...this is the reason because they're not so different. Sure, I think you're right about texturing and lighting and I'm going to adjust these aspects in these hours. Can you give me some suggestions about the road and the ground textures? Or any advice about lighting in general? Thanks!

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I'm adjusting the whole feeling adding lens flares and lighting fx. I still have to modify the uniform of the cops and other things. What do you think? Any suggestion?

[Lemog]

In first, thanks for your comments on my thread Marco, very kind...

Just discovering your project... I read the good evolving of you creation... great drawing skills and very funny stuffs here...

I come now with some clear eyes, and if I can say something about the last update, the first thing which jump to my eyes is the aliens clothe... that seem for me a little bit too much plastic, too shiny... maybe something more as rubber will be better... or adjusting the specular and adding very little procedural map... to catch more shadows and light, and transcribe more the shape of this alien...

About the design of the cops... nothing to crit, maybe the pants are so much straight... Their shoes appear very glossy... yes, it's possible, but very rare for the sole part... (I know, it's not the real life... but the "spectators" have always "our" references...).
Always around the foot... these guys are enlightened by some lights, not... that's appear a little bit poor on shadows at this shoes part... that give us antransition very hard between the ground and the foot.

Always about trenasition... the one between the road and the ground... too much clean and clear... no reliefs, no pebbles, no duts... that can enriched this part...

Remaining parts are perfect for me... I love the ship... and I appreciate a lot the alien head... very beautiful on the close rendering, few page before.

Well...best wishes for finishing your Spectacular entry, and good luck Marco :beer: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[medunecer]

dear laurent,

Thanks for your crits, very useful! I agree with you about the alien's uniform material and I'm going to post a first correction right now;
For the other things, I think I'll fit all the errors tonight. Please, tell me again what you think if you can. I'm learning a lot thanks to this challenge and to the comments of all of the fellows like you! Have a nice 3D day (or night)!

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adding rimm lights to the characters.

[Lemog]

dear laurent,

Thanks for your crits, very useful! I agree with you about the alien's uniform material and I'm going to post a first correction right now;
For the other things, I think I'll fit all the errors tonight. Please, tell me again what you think if you can. I'm learning a lot thanks to this challenge and to the comments of all of the fellows like you! Have a nice 3D day (or night)!
At each level, we have lot of to learn... it's the principal interest in these challenge... that's make me happy each time...
I just profit of this post to point you 3 another little things for the police car...
- tires appear very clean... then more dusty... more rubber and less oily...
- and the "avoid-shock" (para-scossa ?) maybe need some chrome... and eventually little chocks and/or rust...
- that can be good to see the ray light of the car light...
- the grill is rather simple, it doesn't have there a grid, it has there the possibility of cheated and to gain in the details without too much work, by adding these bars of protections which we often finds in front of these vehicles of police force. It are often black... I hope you see what I mean...

That all for now... family time now :shrug: e buena sera Marco:beer:

[medunecer]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/11/9340/9340_1132172146_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/11/9340/9340_1132172146_large.jpg)

I try to blend the road and the ground. This is the first attempt.

[medunecer]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/11/9340/9340_1132191106_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/11/9340/9340_1132191106_large.jpg)

adjusting the cops...

[angel]

at first I thought the alien was floating because the left foot's shadow is directly below the right foot; then I saw the right foot's shadow... optical illusion I guess. I love the cops but specially the white cop's expression. I also have a tiny nitpick; the white cop almost looks like he's smoking a pipe when it is just a piece of the UFO. I would rotate the ship a little to move that piece of the ship. Consider rotating the ship a bit to put that part of it behind the cop, just a thought.

-å

[kingfish3d]

your model and te spaceship are really nice, really funny picture!
personaly i prefer the previous concept in witch we see the giant spaceship and the scene with the policeman and alien really in the bottom in little size, it did a nice scale effect to your picture , more spectacular i think.
good job :thumbsup:

[medunecer]

Thanks for the advice friends!

SNoWs: Yes, I see it now! You're right, it seems the white cop is smoking something! I can't rotate the ship, but I think I can isolate the cop from the shop with a red rimm light to the white cop too and some blur on the ship (and maybe I can erase the pipe behind). Thanks for your words!

kingfish3d:I agree with you, in the first sketch the whole scene was more spectacular, but I like more this camera point of view because it remarks the silly side of the story. Thank you!

[medunecer]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/11/9340/9340_1132226472_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/11/9340/9340_1132226472_large.jpg)

I changed the rimm light of the white cop and I added some blur to the spaceship. Then I tried to add some warm clor to the bottom of the sky and some smoke. I hope it will help the whole feeling of the image.

[sergioKomic]

Hehe your entry put a smile on my face... :thumbsup:


(somehow Id missed it so far...)

Good job!

[medunecer]

Thank you sergio! I'm happy you like it! Good luck to you!

[medunecer]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/11/9340/9340_1132249809_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/11/9340/9340_1132249809_large.jpg)

I'm going to finish...let me introduce you my actors: starting with officer R. Jackson.

[melkao]

jajajaja thats very funny. an alien drunk test...very M.I.B:cool:

[medunecer]

thanks melkao! Happy you like it and its M.I.B./x-files feeling!

(I agree with your last sentence...)
Good look!

[Lemog]

Hahaha... very nice care to the details.. I love the star on this guy... glad to meet officer R. Jackson :thumbsup:

[medunecer]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/11/9340/9340_1132340699_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/11/9340/9340_1132340699_large.jpg)

Introducing Pudrux the alien!
(In the mean time I'm adjusting the final image)

[monks]

too cool work :applause:
really like your style ! very good shaders on your characters ! keep it up :)

[Lemog]

This huy is fantastic, I love his face and his design... very great Marco :thumbsup: I happy to meet Prudux the Alien... :scream:

[Hoju]

Hello medunecer and Pudrux.:wavey:

I like the shading of Pudrux’s skin. It looks kind of oily, but still dry and not overdone. Well done.:thumbsup:

[medunecer]

Hi fellows! Thanks a lot! From Pudrux too!

[melkao]

jajajajajaja nice alien:thumbsup:

[medunecer]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/11/9340/9340_1132824412_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/11/9340/9340_1132824412_large.jpg)

Well fellows, this will be my final image. I hope you like it!

[SONIC-X]

It looks great ,well done.A cool commical piece.

[Istmo]

LOOL!!! I love this work,haha.Good luck!!:thumbsup:

[dannyfalch]

LOL:D

Cool work!
nice sceptic expresion on the police men,.

Sir, please step away from the big, giant space craft and walk the white line please, he he.

[angel]

it turned out great man! the white cop looks better without the "pipe":)

[gardogg]

Very cool work man. You whipped this out like it was nothing! You got a late start and got done early! Congratulations.

[Gunilla]

Hey! You've finished! Congrats for a real cool entry - and finished in such style :thumbsup:
This is one of the funniest around - good luck!

[medunecer]

Thanks fellows! Your comments are always great! Good luck everybody!

[ThierryS]

Hello Marco,
Hey congratulation man on finishing a fine and fun styled illustration!! Your modeling is great and the rendering is awsome.

All my best for the judging. Wish you luck. :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :)
Till next time!!

Thierry

[melkao]

very cool final image...congratulations:scream:

[medunecer]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/11/9340/9340_1133267842_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/11/9340/9340_1133267842_large.jpg)

I made this work thinking about the incapacity that sometimes people have to recognize the wonder around us; It's like that some people are unamenable to the great things of our world.
And sometimes great things are tiny and very common in life. Maybe we lost every enthusiasm, or someone is trying to make us loosing it. And most of us start being sceptical as the policemen in my illustration. The idea came to me quickly; two policemen of a fake county of the U.S.A. are checking a "driver" and the alchool-rate in his body...
All the actors are on a road of the non-existent "County of Meduville", but in a first time I was thinking to use an italian policeman that I made few months ago and that was ready to act in my scene.
But I read carefully the rules of the challenge and I realized that I can't use that model because one of the aim of the "Spectacular Challenge" is to push everyone of us to made something totally new. It was really great! Difficult, tiryng but great!
I had the opportunity to test my ability to build a 3D illustration with all new characters and props in less than two months; Really a great challenge! So I started sketching and modeling all the "actors" and props almost at the same time, because the hurry of the deadline; So I did for the rigging, IK and textures, all at the same time and in the last weeks I started to make some render test. Unluchily I have not enough ram, so I made the final rendering in a not so high resolution (just 1800x2732). I made separate rendering of the different elements, output in .tga files and composed in PS. I made some manipulation on the layers and I added some effects with my pen tablet (the smoke under the spaceship and its volumetric lights).
Thanks to the advices of all my fellows of the "Spectacular Challenge" I fixed some of the bugs inside the very first version of my illustration and I finished it in time. I think there is a lot of work to do on this piece, but no more time to do it. Anyway I'm quite satisfied of the final result. I'm going to use the characters I made for this challenge in other works and maye in an animation. It was very important to me looking at the works of the other fellows; It was (and it is) so inspiring to me and every day that I look at theyr pieces of art I always learn a lot of new things very important for my work.

[daWinky]

Hey Marco,

Congratulations:applause:

for your finished work! Well done, very funny and with a good message. I really like it...
Good luck for the final voting!

-sabrina

[(o)ne]

YOU MADE IT! :beer:

[Lemog]

Just Spectacular and Fantastic... Congratulations Marco... you're right to be proud of your extraordinary work in this challenge, and proud about your skill and progress... :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[shemosus]

Congrats Marco,you'll never know how much your work makes me laugh the minute i lay my eyes on the alien trying to stand steadly or dissatisfied mocking expressions on the policemen faces.well done marco:applause::applause::applause::applause:,this one will make me search for more posts by you ,to chear me up,i wish you good luck and a happy new year.

[medunecer]

Thank you so much my friends! You give me the right charge!

[Ramitxon]

Congratulations Marco, you have a fantastic concept and an incredible image, very funny and great characters. :thumbsup:

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