Uplift Universe - Image Entry: John Strieder

[johnstrieder]

Hi, Everyone!

The Idea for my Image is: Alien-father is catching his daughter in-flagranti with a human boy :)

I will try to make a Sketch, until then here's a try to describe how the picture will be
composed: Alien Girl and Human Boy will be sitting on the Backseat of a Car, Alien Father
is behind them and tearing the car's roof off ;) Imagine the Camera is placed between
the frontseats and pointing at the couple.

Good luck to everyone!

[Colocat]

Sounds like an interesting idea. I`m curious how it`ll look. Good luck to you.

[dustbin1uk]

Oooooh! Challenging idea!

Knowing your previous work, this should be a great image.

Really looking forward to your work on this one!

Good luck friend. :thumbsup:

[nightwoodwolf]

very nice idea John ... looking forward to see your work in progress :thumbsup:

[johnstrieder]

http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/20/14588/14588_1207185738_medium.jpg (http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/20/14588/14588_1207185738_large.jpg)

So here's a Sketch for it.
Shortly the Story again: Alien Girl and Human Boy sitting on the backseat of a Car, Alien Father is angry and tearing the Roof off :)

[johnstrieder]

http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/20/14588/14588_1207245701_medium.jpg (http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/20/14588/14588_1207245701_large.jpg)

Currently I'm working on the boy's head :)

[Vem]

Hi John,
very nice idea and nice work so far!
I´m curious to see more!

Good luck,
Vem

[johnstrieder]

Thank you very much Conny, Mark, John and Andreas!

Some Info i forgot: Like always i use Cinema 4D for Basemeshes, ZBrush for skrew them up and the "Render Perfect"-Button in FryRender. I have started with the Boy to have time to reconsider how the Alien Girl and her Dad look like. So in the next time it's not impossible to see me doing unimportant things like the car-Interieur, haha ;)

[dustbin1uk]

nice progress John!

For some reason I am not getting email updates from CGSociety.

But as usual your skills in modelling people inspire me.

Mark

[johnstrieder]

Thanks, Mark ;) At the moment I'm painting the Textures for the Head (Color, Bump, Spec). Tomorrow i show a Rendertest with my Skin-Material. See you.

[johnstrieder]

http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/20/14588/14588_1207474274_medium.jpg (http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/20/14588/14588_1207474274_large.jpg)

Hi, here's a quick rendertest (rendertime: 4 Minutes) on the Guy's Head with my Skinmaterial and the Textures (Color, Bump, Spec) I made yesterday.

The Eyes are quickly placed, and everything Hair is missing (Lashes, Brows, ...). This will be done on the final pose/expression.

In the next time I will keep busy with the Design of the Alien. I have some Ideas about a translucent Skin, but the hardest will be a Anatomy different than humans.

[dustbin1uk]

Wow! This is really nice work!

Can you tell me a little more about how you made the skin texture. For example, did you use a photo, or did you paint it?

[nightwoodwolf]

very nice update ... my crit would be the ear something strange about it maybe rotated to the back !! .. texturing is awesome with the hair and eye lashes he will look great .. keep it up :thumbsup:

[johnstrieder]

Hi!

@dustbin1uk: It's painted, but for a start I projected a distorted Photo flat on the head.
Then I completely overpainted it. Photos aren't that good as Textures, cause they
contain Lighting Informtion and so on. But they are a nice Helper as start and reference.

I used Bodypaint and ZBrush Polypainting for this.
The "Color Spray"-Mode in Zbrush is extremely useful for Skin Textures.

But the main Effect is in the Skin-Material I created in FryRender.

@nightwoodwolf: Thanks for the hint with the Ear :) I will fix that when the final pose and expression for his Head is ready.

[Colocat]

It looks really awesome ... as always :)
Very realistic.

[DrLong]

Hi, Everyone!

The Idea for my Image is: Alien-father is catching his daughter in-flagranti with a human boy :)

I will try to make a Sketch, until then here's a try to describe how the picture will be
composed: Alien Girl and Human Boy will be sitting on the Backseat of a Car, Alien Father
is behind them and tearing the car's roof off ;) Imagine the Camera is placed between
the frontseats and pointing at the couple.

Good luck to everyone!

I have an aditional idea for you: Your story needs an end, I think, so, what do you think about that:
In continuation: The father is angry and eats the human boy, and the daughter gets angry too, and says disappointed: "Oh, no, daddy, you do always the same with my boyfriends, and...
I hate it.... because I never get an opportunity to eat them later by myself!"

What do you think?

Dieter

Edit: Oh, sorry. I thought that you want to make a video. But your idea is for an image.
May be, I would realize my idea for a video by myself, in other basic situation different to yours (I am looking for a story...)

[johnstrieder]

@DrLong: No Problem, thought it ;)

[johnstrieder]

http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/20/14588/14588_1208218244_medium.jpg (http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/20/14588/14588_1208218244_large.jpg)

Unfortunately I'm very busy at the moment and there's not much time for this Challenge :(

So here's a tiny little update. A quick start on the Alien Girl's Head.

[johnstrieder]

http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/20/14588/14588_1208315398_medium.jpg (http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/20/14588/14588_1208315398_large.jpg)

Update on the Head ...
Spray for the Pores and Alpha 58 for Wrinkles (like on the Lips and Eyes) are supercool ;)

[Colocat]

Wow ..... really looking great. Good job, Tigger. I like it very much.

[mdavid]

Ah! Every man's worst nightmare: the angry alien father of the girlfriend! It's all looking really good so far. Really nice work :thumbsup:

[Vem]

damn hot!
Nice work, i like the strukture of the skin especially the parts looking like being under the skin...

[johnstrieder]

Thanks, Colocat, mdavid and Vem :)
I've deceided to give her Feathers as Hairs. I had a List of possibilitys what she can have to make her different from humans, for example: Feathers, 4 Arms, 4 Eyes or Tentacle-like Hairs (like on the Sketch) ... In the End she is more humanlike than the rough imaginary - but I wanted to give her a sexy look :)
Later this Day I'll show a rendertest of her with Textures, Material and Feathers.

[johnstrieder]

http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/20/14588/14588_1208518866_medium.jpg (http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/20/14588/14588_1208518866_large.jpg)

Rendertest, now with Textures and Feathers. For the Colourvariation of the Feathers I'm using Fry's Colorgen, which applies chosen Colours randomly per Object-ID. Very cool feature.
In the next time i will focus on finishing the Aliengirl and the Car-Interieur (Backseat) to have time to think about the posing of her Father and her Human Lover.

[Vem]

ohhhh, sweeeeeet!
I like thist little feather-punk. Would like to see how it looks, when they are adjusted to the back, but this version is very good.

So long,
Andreas

[Colocat]

She`s looking gorgeous. Great work.

[OZ]

FANTASTIC ! this is f a n t A S T I C!... marvellous style!

[dustbin1uk]

I don't understand why I am not getting email updates on this thread! :banghead:

Anyhow, This is great work John! I like the feathers on her head! Very alien!

Well done! :thumbsup:

[varma]

Hi js3d! That's a very hot alien girl! The rendering is so good she almost looks alive!
What soft are using, by the way?
I read about the contest, way cool! It reminds me of my own teenage era, with only one
difference, it was my father who caught us!
I will defintely come back for more!
Good luck!
;)

[decosouza]

GOD!! looks great! the skin and hair of both of them are very well done. I'll keep my eyes here mate!http://forums.cgsociety.org/images/icons/icon12.gifAndré de Souza

[nightwoodwolf]

very very nice updates .. starting to come together really good .. keep it up

[johnstrieder]

Thanks, Vem, Colocat, OZ, varma and decosouza :)

@varma: I use FryRender (rendering of course), ZBrush (sculpting and texturing), Bodypaint (texturing and unwrapping) and Cinema 4D (modeling and scene setup). I'll show in one of the next posts some technical Stuff like Textures and so on.

I was busy with the Backseat and the Fathers Head. I will make a Screenshot out of ZBrush and post him later :)

Edit: Thank you too, Nightwoodwolf ;)

[johnstrieder]

http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/20/14588/14588_1208889933_medium.jpg (http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/20/14588/14588_1208889933_large.jpg)

This is the angry Father of the Alien Girl. Teeth, Eyes and some Feathers you must imagine at the moment ;)

[Fetus23]

Neat stuff going on in here, I especially like the girl with the feather hair. I see alot of heads and no bodies so far, can't wait to see what you have planed for them.

-love

[alexichabane]

Great work on your character modeling, the detail on the aliens face is really nice. I liked the four eyed version from the concept sketch because it looked less humanoid, but the skin texture and hair (on the girl) help her look very alien. Best of luck in finishing on time!

[dustbin1uk]

Looking great John! Keep going! You can make it on time!

[Nahuta]

Hi John!

I like your work very much so far. Especially the alien father! I think I need some Zbrush lessons from you. Very good work! :)

Also I like your Idea. This will be an interesting interaction between humans and aliens!
I'm looking forward to see more of your great WIPs.

[disconnected]

Wow, that is absolutely incredible. I know this is an alien thing goin, but really that looks so realistic that boy does. You are an awesome artist.

[varma]

He really looks very angry! I sympatise with the poor human boy, it won't be a pretty scene
after the father is done with him! Very nice modeling! Almost looks like an orc friend of mine
I knew long ago!
:)

[johnstrieder]

Thanks, Fetus23, alexichabane, Mark, Nahuta, disconnected and varma :)
Unfortunaly I didn't found some time to finish this, whis is hard for me,
cause most stuff for this is still finished. What's missing is primarily
the Clothing. But I'm going to move on to the WIP-Section of CG-Talk
and finish it there. I'll post the Link here.

[johnstrieder]

http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/20/14588/14588_1210675757_medium.jpg (http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/20/14588/14588_1210675757_large.jpg)

Unforunately no final, I didn't had the time :(
But I'm continuing here:
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?p=5147527#post5147527

... and see you next Challenge ;)

John Strieder

[dustbin1uk]

See you there John!

[OZ]

TEH BOOK IDEA IS GREAT!!! compliments...i hope to see more of this beautifull character!:beer:

[varma]

Congratulations! She is so pretty!
Actually a great Idea for a "Forget me not" postcard!
:)

[Nahuta]

I'm sorry to hear that. Your work is great so far an should be finished.
But I am happy that I will see your finished image in the WIP corner.
And yes, your idea with thit photo is very nice. :)


I have a quite similar situation because I also find too few time for my project in the animation area. I hope that I can finish it. We will see...

[Colocat]

Too bad, you couldn`t finish on time. But anyway, I`m looking forward to see the final image.
See you, Tigger. Big hug from your Ball of Wool ;).

[sundoorink]

Wow! Ich hoffe dieses Bild wird vollendet. Es sieht sehr vielversprechend aus!

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