Strange Behavior (Illustration) Entry: jim heathcott

[soapy]

Hi kids. Sorry I am late, I had a previous engagement.

Time to party!

[mdavid]

Time to party indeed! Bring it on. Great to see you in this one

[soapy]

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Even a poor little toy can have gender issues. But now with the miracle of modern surgery you can have what you want, when you want it! As for the feet, well, they are just great for swimming, whether in the Black Lagoon or your very own Malibu pool.

[musi]

Strange indeed!
Curious where it will go :)

Good luck!

[DaddyMack]

Man, how funny I was wondering a coupla days ago where you were...

Great to have your trademark style in here mate:bowdown:

[mdavid]

He may look unusual, but I'm sure there's an internet forum somewhere for people just like him. And the important thing is, he looks happy. Hey soapy, you haven't disappointed us mate. That kind of strangeness is kicking off your entry to a great start. Really nice render too

[soapy]

Musi- I have some ideas but for now I am just going to experiment and see where it wants to go rather than letting the cat out of the bag prematurely.

D-Mac- Hey thanks, yeah I am glad I finally made it over here. This contest looks to be lots of fun.

Mdavid- Everytime I look at this thing it freaks me out. Talk about an ugly little sucker.

Well I will say this much, the trollop up there who I havent got a name for yet is the first secretary to the high priest of the Choads. More later.

[soapy]

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Ready to spring into action at a moments notice this pretty crocopony is a loyal companion to the holy Choad warriors.

[handlebar]

Glad to see you've fired up the jetpack Soaps, looking foward to your take on strange, and a great start with the characters.

Steve 8)

[mdavid]

That croc head looks brilliant. Although I'm not sure I trust him

[Gunilla]

Good, finally things are back to abnormal here, glad to see you enter.
That trollop is reaööy disturbing, especially the thong-tan gives me the creeps... and your renders looks great, just as expected :)

[soapy]

H- thanks buddy, I am going to try and pound something out every day I get a chance.

Mdavid- That Choad attack croc is totally trustworthy provided you believe in the one true path.

Gunilla- eww yeah I agree. I am not sure I will be able to top the trollop for shear weirdness, but of course I will try.

[Ferx]

Hey Soapy, really nice models and cool concept!! nice! I like a lot. I´m very intrigued about the direction you are going to take for your concepts :) but for sure this is a great start :thumbsup: Best of luck and looking forward for more updates!

[soapy]

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You never know who you are going to run into hiking around out in the woods.

[blakbird]

Interesting character, i imagine it now with long long fisherman boots (or maybe duck hunter :) )

[miketche]

I was wondering when you'd show up. Very strange indeed. Good luck and lets see lots of wackyness (is that a word?)

[Ordibble-Plop]

Lovely - could the nipples be more erect?

[DaddyMack]

hee hee

Weeeeeee...

Loving the free range nutty goodness in here so far Soapy:applause: More more

[soapy]

Ferx - yeah I will probably start talking about the full scene a little later on. I have this bad habit of working towards a scene then building the models and making something completely different out of them. But I do have some ideas I am just not sure if they will work or I have time. More later though.

Semsahmer - Glad you like him. He is pretty much done at the moment. I like rubber boots though so maybe I will build some for another character.

Mike - Thanks man yep wackiness is a word, I looked it up, but you spelled it wrong. ;-)

Ordibble P. Lop - it is not so much that they are erect, they are just really red. It is like the dude rouged them or else he just had a really nasty titty twister fight. In any case I noticed after I had posted and have since desaturated them and adjusted the colour too. Plus I did some other fixes on that tex map.

Daddymack - don't worry dawg, some major yummy goodness is in the pipe.

[soapy]

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She can party hearty or she can rip your eyeballs out, your choice.

[Ferx]

Hey Soapy, you are having really fun my friend !!! hahahah :D that model is great, a really pony tail hair, cool !! :thumbsup: - If I can give an opinion about the concept, would be funny a party of trading parts :D , only a comment :) , again great work mate!! :beer:

[octopus7]

Haha this is some seriously wacky stuff:bounce: very good modelling, kinda reminds me of a weird version of mr potato head ;)

[Gunilla]

Oh, what a lovely couple! Are they out hiking?
The creepiness continues, good. The shader for that ponytail is absolutely fantastic too, you're off to a splendid start.

[mdavid]

You keep surprising us soapy. I love it :thumbsup:

[soapy]

Ferx- thanks. I have a couple of idea but keep changing my mind. Right now I am just going to concentrate on building some fun characters and see where it leads. More on this below.

Octopus- Thanks, yeah they are supposed to be toys. I always make toys act out the themes I do. Sometimes I forget I am building toys and the character gets a little too real. Usually I try to add some evidence suggestive of toys.

Gunilla- Yes they sort of are a couple! It started out with the guy getting the hiking boots, then I decided they would be all earthy granola crunchin' types. But she is a little more chic than he is. And of course they are both completely nuts.

Mark- Thanks man.

Thanks again Mark and Gunilla for letting me know of the rule changes. I am not sure I would of entered if it had not been for that. Just being able to rework some old models that never made it into a scene is working for me right now. It is cool to be freed up from the drudgery of starting completely from scratch on a model and spend more time on the texture mapping.

My first idea for this image was to do a huge sprawling religious war scene. Which might still happen. The latest idea is a more sedate sort of garden scene with masked characters dancing around making merry. Like a scene from a Fellini movie or something. Perhaps a masquerade wake or an inpromptu theatre production or a wedding.

So also up in the air is the execution style of the figures. Firstly I thought I would use all kinds of toys of different types all jumbled together. But lately I have been thinking it might be nice to have all the characters be full body figures with toy head masks like the last two posted.

Thoughts, ideas, anyone?

[handlebar]

Maybe a trip to the anual burning man festival for your characters soaps, they'll fit right in. I realy like your religious war idea, sounds epic.

[Gunilla]

How about combining the ideas? It could be some strange religious ritual involving dancing in a park... and I like the thought of it being humantypes with toy heads, gives all kinds of vibes for some kinky cult. Disturbing.

[soapy]

H- They just came from Burning Man. :-) I will keep plugging away and see if I can generate enough figures for a proper war.

Gunilla- I like the humans with masks idea too. So I will keep going in that direction. It occurred to me I might do one group in cute animal masks and the other faction in scary monster masks. I have a couple of monster masks already half built right now.

[mdavid]

It occurred to me I might do one group in cute animal masks and the other faction in scary monster masks. I have a couple of monster masks already half built right now.That sounds like an excellent idea. It seems to work on lots of levels

[soapy]

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Behold the resplendent monument at the temple of the Golden Gourd.

[mdavid]

I've seen, and now I believe.

That's looking fantastic. Duckman looking up back there is an elegant touch. I like all the suggestions of symbolism and mythology

[octopus7]

This looks beautiful. I think the setting you have chosen for the two odd beings is perfectly suitable for them. Is there much more to go with the scene?

[Ferx]

Hey Jim, bloody hell that is fantastic mate!!! great textures !! :thumbsup: and really like the direction of your concept, cool!! Great work mate! Cheers :beer:

[handlebar]

All hail the golden gourd and the strangeness therin. Great progress Soapy.

Steve 8)

[shakes]

haha..Mr Strange Behavior himself! great to see you in here Soapy! classic models as always!! bring on the madness!

[Gord-MacDonald]

u have some odd lookin creatures - I look forward to seeing more!


Gord

[Gunilla]

Ha! Yeah, hail the golden pear :thumbsup: Nice update - the relations between them is working well. I really like her attitude.
The golden masks (?) on the altar looks cool - could we have a close up?

[soapy]

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Hey Gunilla here is a closeup as requested. :-) The shader is a bit funky it blurs the forms a bit which is fairly suitable to what a clean gold finish would do? Also I did a couple of the masks in cel render showing the actual polys, I am not using sub-d's with these. These were made in zbrush, starting with a flat plane modeled roughly into the shape of a flat face.

[soapy]

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Gassy Mack is on a home run streak. Which is handy since trotting around the bases is much preferable to sliding in.

[Ferx]

Hey Soapy, the box and masks are really great!!:thumbsup: and Gassy Mack is totally insane!!, superb!! hahahaha cool man!! :D I like a lot all the design of that character! Great work mate!! :beer:

[Gunilla]

Nice closeup - I really like those masks.

And now I'm really curious about Gassy Mack - how does he realate to the happy hikers? Is he one of the bad guys (as if I need to ask) :D ?

[soapy]

Mark-
Ferx-
Handlebar-
Shakes-
Gord- thanks all.

Octopus- Thanks. A lot more stuff will be added to the scene. This is just the start.

Gunilla- Yes, Gassy Mack belongs to the rival faction. One side wears cartoon animal heads and the other side wears monster masks and such-like freakish headgear. As for Mack I think I am going to change his colours to something more earthy or industrial.

So I was thinking about where my picture is going and I realized that building out a full blown battle scene in the manner I had intended would be really difficult in the remaining time and would probably just make me miserable. So the way I see it is I either build out a battle scene using a bunch of mismatched models or using repeated models. Neither of which options I particularly care for. So another option I am considering is changing the project alltogether. As an alternative I thought I might do a sort of sprawling scene with numerous little tableaus. Something in the manner of Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights or the Last Judgement. This approach might be more suited to the group of models I am working on. There would be a bunch of mismatched models but in this case I think it will suit the scene much better. Each tableau within the picture could then have models appropriate within that happening.

In any case I intend to just keep on building crazy stuff and will put what I have together at the end.

[mdavid]

It's fun watching your characters develop here. The tableau idea sounds excellent. Your characters are so unusual and original that pretty much any scene you drop them into will become interesting. As Plato once said, 'Go soapy go!'

Not Plato? I must have read it here then

[soapy]

Well actually it was Democritus. Plato wasn't entirely down with the soapdawg experience.

[soapy]

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You might feel a little prick.

[Ordibble-Plop]

I didn't feel a thing.

Could it be because that syringe is not loaded?

Juice that baby up for some squirty fun.

[mdavid]

Powerful image, soapy. The juxtaposition of toy with syringe is creepy

[SteevieWoo]

:surprisedOuch!! !! !! I felt it!

[soapy]

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Toxic nightmare of the psychedelic Orca.

[mdavid]

Nice one soapy. The syringe being the arch-enemy of the inflatable orca, this scene adds new levels of tension. Orca is wise not to struggle

[shakes]

you are just hilarious soapy! great new characters..love the masks, and orca is a classic!

[musi]

Oh, my God! Oh pure little whale!
Jimmie, your thread is one the strangest inhere, you know that? :D

[handlebar]

You're master of the surreal Soapy, this is stranger than strange in a strange kinda way.

[Gunilla]

Magic work with the surgeon - wonderful model and a scene in itself.
And having the group of them carrying the whale on their needle tips is - wouah, some tension there, really.
I love the way your mind works, but I'd hate to be one of your phantasies :D

[soapy]

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When you chain a dog to a pole he gets mean after a while. Just pray the chain holds...

[Ferx]

Hey Soapy........... woooooow that models are simply awesome mate!!! The syringe is superb ! and i like a lot the pscheydelic orca, cool !! (toxic nightmare.... hahahahaha :D ) and the textures is great ( a very toxic substance in the syringes !! :D )
The dog is great, looks creepy and savage !! and i want to see the all composition, please!! :)
Again awesome work like always buddy!! Cheers :beer: ( and I'm thinking to replace the tequila for one of your psychedelic syringes... hahahaha :D )

[mdavid]

Now that dog man is just amazing. This is eye-popping stuff, soapy. This character reminds me of those old super-realistic porcelain dolls, except I don't remember seeing a porcelain doll like that one.

[Tremoside]

Hiiia Soapy,

Like these twisted characters! Original! Eye catching and surprising! Am just waitin' to see allthogether!

:wavey:

[soapy]

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Dood look out! RUN!!!

[soapy]

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Oh no, dooood..

[soapy]

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"Shall he stay, or shall he go?"

[Gunilla]

That dog will give me nightmares ... super work, the look in his eyes are spot on.
The skeleton and soldier scene works well too - a match made in hell.

[Ferx]

shall he go!! hahahahahaha :twisted:

Hey Soapy, you are having really fun with this challenge, great mate!! :buttrock:
Again great work!! :beer:

[authentic]

HI Jim. Big work you've done on this challenge. MAybe you wan reduce the arm of the soldier that I find a little to big.

[mdavid]

Fantastic funny stuff, soapy. I especially like the head-lock version. Skeleton man's expression is perfect. I am super-impressed by how you keep inventing new things and keep developing your unique stuff even further. That level of originality only comes from doing the work. Your stuff is always original. Keep it going mate. I love it

[soapy]

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Sketch for a new tree-man type character. I like using envelopes too, Mark.

[Ferx]

Hey Soapy, hahahahah... the tree man character really will be fun and cool (and thinking you maybe can put a neast on the tree head with a crazy bird... only a bad idea.... hahahaha :D ) And cant wait to see your model for the tree man ! Cheers mate! :beer:

[soapy]

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First run through of Treeman. Ideas?

[Ferx]

Hey Soapy, really cool model mate!! i like the plastic texture on it, nice!!:thumbsup: I´m thinking in a sort of mad vulture in his upper branches, only a idea :) Like always superb job my friend ! Cheers :beer:

[Gunilla]

Yeah plastic woodman! Maybe a little bird could build a nest in his head-branches? :)
Keep'em coming!

[shakes]

super funny character soapy..I like Ferx's idea of a vulture up there. you rock!

[mdavid]

Treeman looks excellent. It might be fun to see a group of tree men in slightly different poses, so you'd get an idea of a small forest of them. I think the shadow he casts contributes a lot to his appeal. I don't know what could make him look any better. At first I was thinking of a few random clumps of moss or leaves, but I kind of like the deciduous look

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