Autumn of Terror, Jaakko Luukanen (3D)

#1

Title: Autumn of Terror
Name: Jaakko Luukanen
Country: Finland
Software: CINEMA 4D

Return to Victorian Whitechapel i.e. another Jack the Ripper-themed pic. This time a book cover. A job I got as a result of (and based on) a reconstruction /article illustration project I did last year.

Client request was for a man in ordinary clothes. I would have liked to have him kitted with a billycock hat (a kind of bowler) instead of the cap. A top hat? Don’t be silly :wink:

Made with Cinema 4D, with pass adjustments in Photoshop. C and C wekcome, of course.

#2

excellent. love the textures

#3

en en …I love the picture…soft lighting …very nice painting style and I like the mood…no words…****4stars from me …good job…keep it up … :bounce: :bounce:

#4

Great job, hi love the atmosphere.

#5

What a great piece!

My only crit is that the paper in such a wet scene is pretty dry and unstained by water marks or fading, sure it looks ripped up but its more like what a gerbil would do to paper in 10min rather than what water and the elements does to paper over days/months.

It really does look great, amazing piece, excellent work!!

Mark D.

#6

coooooool :thumbsup:

#7

Great scene. Tells a story. I dig your style! The texture work is awesome.

-Sakari

#8

Oh wow stunning piece…Liked it…Lighting and textures are just perfect…Really great setup of things…Telling a scene briefly…Nicely balanced…I really admired that reflection on the surface where water is there…Absolutely fantastic…Great work…:thumbsup:

#9

Really love the atmosphere of the work and the shady character.

#10

Nice on! keep it up!

#11

nice one. keep it up.! :thumbsup:

#12

Nice, i love it and i am a fan of the ripper :smiley: but i think that there is too much light because the hadn’t so much of it in the streets where this happened.

#13

Great new work!
The posters are an accurate new ingredient and the menace of the murderer is very powerful. I think I agree about the posters not being wet enough on the walls also the paper would be very thin so it would shrink bond more over the the brick surface. I also particularly like the granite cobblestones and the puddles- well done.

#14

Thanks for your kind words, everyone!

     Mark and Bill:
     
     You have a point about the posters (especially on the left). I'll have to examine various thicknesses of wet paper and posterboard in the future... 
     
     My main issue was with the texture stacking-alphas-SPD combination, as is clearly evident from the attached illumination pass. 


 
 In order to keep the murderer's face obscured, I lit him separately with hi-contrast lights (and excluded him from AO).

StarScream:

     I agree (I prefer them murky myself), but I was asked to brighten it up.....) When doing reconstructions, light-level accuracy matters, but in this case not so much. and the positive thing is that even the people with non-calibrated monitors can actually see something ;)
  
  Cheers,
  
  Jake
#15

:slight_smile:
Hi!
I like it a lot!
I like the pose of the guy, and the general mood.
bye!

#16

i remember les miserables (a novel)… this man like jan valjan…
good aura my friend, good work…
lighting and render excellent…

congragulate…

#17

Nice pic! I really dig the lighting :thumbsup:

#18

Thanks,

Although the pic was done ages ago, the book is coming out only this spring. 

I provided two versions - the one posted here and one without the character. The understanding was that they can "Put stuff on top", which I took to mean historical photos, etc.

To be honest, I felt a bit gutted (excuse the pun), when I saw the [result](http://www.historiskamedia.se/upload/historiskamedia/2008/omslag_var/JackUppskararen.jpg).  :scream:

But a paying client is right, I suppose…

/Jake

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