Still: Professionals never retire

[Giles3]

I like it!
Good Work :buttrock: :buttrock: :buttrock:

[Atwooki]

Gorgeous texturing, ssalo! and humerous with it....:applause:

Atwooki

[ssalo]

Thanks!

All the textures are hand crafted in photoshop. When i bought my wacom tablet last summer my textures shifted to another level...

[BunnyBunny]

Very cool, the textures are amazing and the lighting too. I like the biotech thing there too.

[JonC]

woaw great! model! amayzing precision :thumbsup:

I am a bit suspicious about the skin he is standing on, you soulhd work just a bit more on that ( for my opinion )

[ssalo]

BunnyBunny: There's about five to seven lights in scene and for the final touch I used VRay Free.

JonC: I'm not too happy with skin too. It looked good at some point but I kind a lost it. Rendering things in passes would have helped a lot.

[grihan]

ey!! a bug with implants! hehehe...very good! I like it very much!!!

[Yoshua]

Great work, looks awesom.

What software did you use?
Can we see a Wireframe?

Thx :thumbsup:

[Marc Andreoli]

city of lost children...:thumbsup:

[meats]

The six million dollar flea!

I love the little eye, and of course the robotic legs:thumbsup:

[Nakalay]

Astounding! Great textures and lighting :applause:

[PaxtonGerrish]

hmmm.... Prosthetic limbs for amputee fleas... you may be on to something..:D

looks amazing man!!
maybe add a few hairs on the skin / ground

[ssalo]

Thanks everybody!

I used 3ds max 5 for modeling and Photoshop for texturing and color correction. VRay Free was used for rendering.

Yes, skin/ground needs some work and I already had some hairs coming from it but they were hard to make look realistic. That area needs some research.


"The six million dollar flea!" Thats a good one!

The flea from City of Lost Children way back was the thing that really got me inspired about possibilities of CG.

Anyway, here's wireframe/screenshot and some texture samples (in low res).



http://www.kolumbus.fi/sami.salo/pix/flea_wire.jpg
http://www.kolumbus.fi/sami.salo/pix/flea_tex.jpg
http://www.kolumbus.fi/sami.salo/pix/flea_tex2.jpg

Cheers, Sami

[SimonReeves]

thats realllly cool as always sami :thumbsup:

[Neil]

very realistic looking, i like it very much! no real crits.

[ssalo]

reeves1984: Yes, folks from maxforums.org are coming....

[SimonReeves]

:)

[mindrot]

hot damn that is so cool..... great concept...very clever :thumbsup:

[rmatlchans]

you know what..??

What yoou have done is exactly what I have always wanted to do!!!

SO GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

[Error404]

the DOF could use some work, looks like it was done in Photoshop? Around the legs (where the skin fades to the background) there is some blur 'issues'.

otherwise, looks nice :)

[ssalo]

Yes, DOF was made really cheesy way in Photoshop. Right now I don't have access to any DOF plugins (PS or max) so I cheated it really badly. Multipass in max is OK but isn't really a option when you use GI ( = too long render times...)

[Error404]

for that, I would render out just the bug and shadow (targa with alpha) and the background seperate, then blur the background with the blur tool, and plop in the bug! badabing badaboom! :)

[ssalo]

Yes, that would be normal procedure to do things right but I deadline for competiton was looming ( only few hours left and I was really tired) and I couldn't afford to do another render. I'm a bit annoyed about it can spotted by careful looking but, what can you do, a deadline is a deadline.

[GrafOrlok]

Very cool indeed! Fantastic concept too.:applause:

I feel the hair strands are a little too symetrical though, and I sure like to see some sub-surface illumination on the flea. That would really make it perfect!:)

[ssalo]

Graf Orlok: You are right. I'll probaply fix them later. I did some quite neat 2d-composition/multpass -hacks for sub-surface scattering but it still needs more work.

[goodlag]

wow very cool~~




:buttrock: :buttrock: :thumbsup: :buttrock: :buttrock:

[hwachai]

amazing stuff ..

nice texture!!!!!!

[ssalo]

I fixed the DOF issue. I used Vray Free's DOF because of to my surpirise it was quite fast. I also color corrected and desaturated render a bit. I think this is thee final version. Time to move on!

http://www.kolumbus.fi/sami.salo/pix/flea_dof.jpg

Anyway, thanks everybody for your kind comments.

And, here is a high quality 1280 x 1024 desktop wallpaper version of it. I Hope you like it!

http://www.kolumbus.fi/sami.salo/pix/wallpaper_flea.jpg

-Sami

[shaangfx]

oooooooooooohh! stunnnig!

[Werner]

5 stars mate! :buttrock: :applause:

[Chabee]

Nice job!!! :applause:

[facial]

Wow, so, now i understand why the flea can jump so high.:D
Well done. Keep post up more.

[tomokazu]

very nice:bounce:

I like it;)

[singleguy]

good work should always be in the front row!

[eLm0]

when a artist thinks the works done its done
bloody top top top notch work
but i just have one quick think have u thought about like you said a bit of a 2d comp thing like background the blacks working thought of maybe like a flea hommy envo like on a dogs back or in the bush just to have the whole thing still very very sick work new background for my cpu right now

great stuff:buttrock:

[ofir3dvb]

amayzing!! great work!

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