character: Lord of the Birds

[phoenix2k]

wow... great picture... you should have posed this in the lotr challenge :)... again... great work!!!

[Dreamwave]

cool, can you post a close-up or picture of the tattoos too?

[DrakeX]

finally we meet the guy responsible for all the trouble in Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" :D

great work :) i love the scenery, the guy has some shading issues but very well done overall.

[FatAssasin]

Looks really good. I like the landscape in the background. Is that modeled or a photograph? And another question, is his hair supposed to be flapping in the wind or does it just stick out in different directions? It's hard to tell.

[JIII]

love that. I have a thing for soft renders. just cant take to many teched out hard as heck pics+renders.

nice peice of artwork.

[Zmaster]

very good,the environnemetn and the character look great !

[pascal_blanche]

really neat pict raph :) (cofee?)

[E.Z. Schwartz]

Looks good. His right hand seems to lack nuckles though. How'd you do the trees? They look very nice.

[MROGER]

Hey :)
El Rafo qui fait des persos maintenant :)

I want more characters and if possible females characters ;)

[Matt]

Truly inspiring. Most people use formulas when creating characters. "A little of this guy, and a little of this guy." So really they're using elements from other creations.

This looks strikingly original, and I'm glad to see a lot of stuff like this appear lately.

Keep it up.

[g3n]

whoo thats great :bounce:

[KolbyJukes]

I'd say the foreground (the guy and the platform) is lacking in detail in comparison to the background (which is beautiful :thumbsup: - is it a painting?).

Is it just me or is there some weird geometry around the hip?

Can we see a wire?

-Kol.

[Nyceane]

nice, what program you used?

[DZL]

very well done. i like the soft render as well - could you give us an idea of what software/renderer you used, and how you got that soft look? the background is amazing - great detail...

[imashination]

Is the background made in Vue4 by any chance?

[baby]

ilzonleutandeufèrmumuzeulékaribou ?! ;)


Nice pict...

[Reza_82ir]

WoW!Realy Great Work:applause:

[draconix]

That is a cool pic!

The character is interesting. The background looks like a painting, like someone mentioned before.

Software(s) used ?

[S_3D_A]

damn:)

[Raphael-Lacoste]

thanks guys! I used Max 4, after Softimage 4... I think I won't go back on softimage now :)
the mountain in the background is 3d with a huge texture of several landscapes I shooted during my holydays in quebec ;)
The foregrounds trees are 2D fakes, from Bordeaux in France!
its a magical mix of france and Quebec ! :p

I used a scanline renderer :bounce:
No GI, just omnis and direct lights,


See ya!

[iggiza]

That's a awesome render, beautiful ligthing and colors!!!

[Mr_BUG]

well the composition is really good but i think the lightning on the character doesn't match the rest of the scene, there is a kind of difference i can't really define

btw very niiice pict, i love the details of the background.

[goodlag]

wow great work

good lighting & background work

[ACFred]

Nice job. The image has a really nice feel to it.

I think the pose of the character is a bit unnatural, though. If he's going to have his hand on the staff without putting his elbow on his thigh/knee, then I think it'd look better if his hand was further to the right, causing the staff to also lean more to the right. If you want the staff in that location, have him lean his elbow on his thigh, which would also affect the position of his right shoulder/clavicle region.
Also, with that pose, his right hand is kinked just a bit.

If you were to move his right hand to the right some more, making his staff lean to the his right (picture left), you'd create a bit of a diagonal, which would help the composition a bit. Right now, the darkness and vertical nature of the staff is really glaring.

If you change his pose at all, make sure you go in and give a little weight to his pose, as if there is an effort to have his body in that position, even if it's slight.
Many posed models have the feel that they are infinitely light and that there is no stress involved with the pose they're holding. In those cases, the general shape of the pose looks good but doesn't go the extra distance to portray the weight of the character, too.

I really like the character you've created. What are those tentacles on his head used for?

Alec

[John_Shaft]

Amazing work but the only thing that caught my eye was that stomach and his left leg. The stomach looks weird and the leg looks bigger then the other one. But all in all its really sweet.

[Michael Chen]

I like your style, looks a bit toony :) (just my opinion)

He looks like some maori character :D

[piajartist]

It has that Protoss look for fellow Starcraft players:cool:

[Chaos Maximus]

love this pic and all of the detail visable.

if you make a bird, a detailed one it would be awesome to have him interacting with one, possibly on that stick to the left, seems sort of obvious.

it would show some more controol over the birds he is 'lord of'

awesome job, i love it, mabey one day ill be this good, seigh

have fun, keep it up

[Psycholink]

Very cool! :bounce:
can you post a wirefire?

[TheWireframe]

That's freakin amazing! Can you do a closeup on those feathers? They are simply unreal to me!!:bounce:

WTFG!!!:applause:

[Raphael-Lacoste]

thanks for your comments! they are very helpfull :)
here is the Wire for people who asked for it!

thanks Michel, j'ai utilisé ton tuto! et oui, un jour si j'ai le temps, je passe à la femelle ;) ça va bien à lyon?

ehe pascal pas trop de Café! je suis nerveux en ce moment :buttrock:

yes mr bug, I didn't use exactely the same light for the character, I didn't want so see i too backlighted, I think its Ok but your right :)

baby, where do you work @ ubi? france? non..hélas je crois que je n'aurais plus beaucoup de temps pour ce genre d'à cotés!
ps: vous cherchez du monde pour l'année prochaine? :)

http://raphael.lacoste.free.fr/ftp/CG_forums/wire.jpg

[phoenix2k]

wow... great job eith the model and especially the background!! :eek:

[insanelight]

Amazing! :thumbsup:

[Psycholink]

gentil! Combien de temps heure de faire?

[hanzo]

cool/excellent work man!

noff said.....

[Biohazard]

Joli taf mon Raph.
Vanille française ?

Nice faked landscapes ! It's impossible to recognize the "Parc Lafontaine". ;)
And very nice atmosphere too... :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[kr3ml]

Man this is a very nice picture... Love the style... keep up whit it

[Raphael-Lacoste]

thank you guys!:beer:
unfortunately, I won't have a lot of time to do another picture soon...Too much work now, pfffff ! need holydays!:bounce: :bounce:

[michelleblue]

I like the look of the character alot:bounce:
Did you design it yoursef?

[pascal_blanche]

baby c'est un asti de francais ubisoftien comme nous ouais... on va finir par tous s'y retrouver :P
bon sauf que nous a montreal, on est dans de plus chouettes loacaux, on a les meilleures equipes, le meilleur cafe..... ;)

[baby]

déprime...

[pascal_blanche]

LOL

[baby]

que tu voulais dire 2* moins cher aussi a la fin de ta phrase... ;)


mais c vrai qu'ils sont forts ces canadziens... :thumbsup:

[facial]

Hey,El Rafo, Glad to see you work again. This work looks great, LOve it. Keep post up.:thumbsup:

[Raphael-Lacoste]

hey! thank you panda facial :)
I love your work too, when will we have the complete short movie of your 3d chinese water color ?
I'm waiting for it! keep me aware:bounce:
cheers,


raf

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