Lighting Challenge #10: Flying Spaghetti Monster

[railsplitter]

Kind of variations on a theme: Flying Spaghetti Monster at night and just catching the morning sun.

Pardon the truly horrific rocks. I don't do textures. Click for large pictures. You probably will need to zoom in because the browser will do bad things when it scales images down. No geometry was changed aside from scaling up the FSM and moving it slightly, and lots of trees and unseen land were nuked. Lit in Lightwave + FPrime.

http://www.ribsngibs.com/images/LightingChallenges/FSM/FSMThumb1.jpg (http://www.ribsngibs.com/images/LightingChallenges/FSM/FSM1.jpg)

http://www.ribsngibs.com/images/LightingChallenges/FSM/FSMThumb2.jpg (http://www.ribsngibs.com/images/LightingChallenges/FSM/FSM2.jpg)

[jeremybirn]

railsplitter -

Welcome! Those are both nice images. I think the composition looks a little cropped with him facing off towards the edge of frame, maybe you could turn him so he's looking more at us and towards the center of frame? It would be nice to see some more reflections or highlights to define the water, too.

-jeremy

[CGmm]

I just found there's a new challenge going already!
Can't wait to try, but let me put my latest work here.

Since I add so many plants to the background,
camera angle could be changed for better composition, I guess.
Any comments are welcome. Thank you.

[jeremybirn]

CGmm -

The background plants are nice. The composition is OK, maybe turn the front monster's eyes down so they are looking at us, it looks very stiff staring straight off into space. The monsters really need more shading and shadows, right now there is no self-shadowing on them and they appear very evenly lit. Also, some shadows from the environment, such as the one on the left near the cliff getting into a cliff shadow, would add a lot.

-jeremy

[jeremybirn]

This is an old challenge now, this thread is archived. If you scroll down to the Challenge #10 section of the downloads page, you'll see that the models can still be downloaded for your tests, and also that a gallery has been made of top entries. Feel free to browse this thread to see what others have posted, even though you can no longer post here.

-jeremy