B-Movie Entry: Patrick Schemat

#81

hi steven6,

the v-shape pointing to the undead is a good suggestion - i’m currently experimenting with it in photoshop. :slight_smile:

greetz from underneath the bog’s surface,
bran

#82

next wip!
though it looks like only a bit has changed, there’s been much work:
barks on the trees, removed some foliage from the farest tree to get a subtle v-shape :wink: and changed the lightning.
detailing on the front undead, added some more fog and there’s a hand showing the middle finger. :smiley:
and now i’m working on some reflections, blood spots and moss and grasses…

hope you like it.

decaying greetz,
bran

#83

Hey Patrick,
Sorry its taken me a minute to check back with you, But it makes me uber happy to hear you were able to get some of your files back and keep working!

And I’m lovin the changes and progress!

The flip of the img works just fine for me! but I might think about flipping the main front character back, only because as it is his arms seem to mirror the arms of the two main characters behind him, makes me see a pattern that draws my attention away.

Love the highlights, and I don’t think it makes anything look metal like, if anything, promotes slimyness, hehehe

Can’t wait to see how this finishes out over the next week :smiley:
I’ve really enjoyed watching your thread!

Cheers mate! :beer:

#84

hi aaron,

thanks for your support!
i hope you can finish your entry until friday - barbarians have to raid the challenge! :beer:

as a note, i often flip my images during working on it, because thats a good method for me to find bad areas in the image.
i definately will flip the main character - but i’m afraid i’ve too little time left.
in school, we had to change rooms some minutes ago. now i’m sitting at a pentium4-computer with 1gb ram :banghead: - and this week, we have important lessons in webdesign and on friday we’ll write exams.

i hope i can use my breaks for working on my challenge-entry. :argh:

rotten greetings,
bran

#85

hi,

this is almost done.
added more blood spots, did some reflections, worked on the sides in the lower third and made a new lightning. and i’m happy with the sky, although it will be mostly covered by the title “bog of the rotten scum”.

nex step will include some color correction and -tweaking (maybe change the bluish tones more to a subtle violet to get more contrast and a more threatening look) and finally the lettering: a stupid title with stupid shadows and “a cheap b-movie production featuring bored dead”.
and, of course, an age restriction hint. :smiley:

phew, hope that i can finish it in time.

greetings from out a foggy bog,
bran

#86

so, final spurt!

  • bog of the rotten scum
  • 65 minutes uncut abhorrent carnage!
  • a cheap b-movie production
  • featuring bored dead
  • crude violence
  • nc-99 (no one 99 and under admitted)
  • in oldschool 2d

somehow i’m not really happy with the title, but i can’t tell what is it :frowning:
first i had it in full red. it had a huge contrast to the background but that didn’t fit the style of the image somehow.

what do you think?

hurrying,
bran

#87

small final, greater final will be uploaded soon. :slight_smile:

#88

Software: Photoshop

bog of the rotten scum

who ever did evil, won’t ascend to heaven.
they stay on earth.
some curious tourists discovered an unknown spot in a grand bog, where a mob of undead criminals - drug dealers, homicidal maniacs, bruisers, mass murderers and all what was evil in elder times, too - ambushes them at night.
well, that’s the story. a b-(splatter)movie showing crude violence and buckets of blood don’t needs much more story.
there are no heroes, the whole movie is a carnage orgy what can be done with a low budget.
this could be a (fictive) b-movie of the eighties.

my idea was to create a dark coverartwork for that movie, that has those special bad contrasts between the image and the writings on it.
it shows the undead scum looming out of the bog’s mist during a thunderstorm. against the gloomy sky, some hung skeletons dangle from the trees.

fonts used:

  • impact
  • britannic bold
  • crackles (“in oldschool 2D”) - note: don’t know if i spelled it right, i had to work on different computers during the challenge.

modified:

  • nc-17 .eps-file from the mpaa (motion picture association of america) modified to nc-99

thoughts:
this is my first challenge. painting a b-movie-image, was indeed a huge challenge, because i never was interested in those films. i learned more than i would have learned in a year, and that’s a great reward for me. participating in this event among the great artists of the cgsociety is an experience that i won’t forget.
but there were some problems, too. i am a trainee and i had to work on the challenge during classes, so i had to listen with the ears to the teachers while staring at photoshop and thinking about the weekly exams.

we had often to change the rooms and the computers. working on imacs and the next day on a p4-windows-pc is… evil. i lost some challenge files last week, but some could be recovered.

thanks:

  • … to all artists that gave me feedbacks and motivated me. thank you mates!
  • … to my class and especially our tutors who gave me the time working on my entry during classes :slight_smile:
  • … to the buckets of coffee

bran

#89

Congrats on finishing, Bran! :applause:
Amazing brush work and colors! Even the characters are looking slow to move, the whole image is full of dynamic and is looking very dramatic! Superb work!

Yeah, and thank you for feedback!:slight_smile:

#90

Great to see you cross the finish line, Bran. Especially considering you went through 4 different concepts before settling on this one. It really is finished beautifully, STRONG b-movie theme present.

How did you get that wonderful textured look. i never know how to get textures like this.

Fantastic and congratulations on finishing!

Marley

#91

peleng and lightsovereign,
many thousand thanks to you!
great to have you here! :beer:

just take a layer with some huuuuge brushstrokes on it, mix some textures with varying colors onto it, put the layer mode to “soft light” (i think it is so called, i worked with the german version of ps where it is known as “weiches licht”) and play with the layers opacity. i used 76% opacity and some additional colorsettings, increased saturation and added another layer with texturebrushstrokes on it (there’s a great tutorial of linda bergqvist’s site furiae.com about creating texture brushes!).

#92

Congrats on finishing a great piece! The texture you added does a lot to grunge up the smooth paints and is a great effect (although perhaps a bit strong… just imho.)
And I love the lower right corner: Oldschool 2d FTW! :thumbsup:

#93

Good job, bran!
Impressive output… it’s like you did 3 Images for this challenge. :smiley:
Congrats, you’ve done very well.

#94

Hey Bro!

Congratulations on an Awesome Finish!!!

I love the final texture look you gave everything, and the title works so well! :smiley:

Cheers to an incredible competition! I must say you did freakin amazing for your first challenge!
And I loved all the ideas you kept coming up with before this bog idea, they were all fantastic

Cheers! :beer:

#95

Fatastic Finish!

IT gave me a creepy feeling. Congrats:applause: :applause: :applause: :applause:

#96

walrus, thank you for looking in :wink: yeah, the texture is strongly visible, but i think, that is okay.
that is a problem when i’m working on different computers: not all monitors are calibrated, and not everywhere i’m allowed to calibrate them because of missing admin-rights. :smiley:
overall, i’m really happy with that what i produced. and that’s a good reward.
btw i would like to congratulate you for your entry. its great to see how professionals work. :slight_smile:

yakonusuke, it would be better for me if i had started with only concept and finish that instead of reorientating myself a few times, hehe. your work is one of the most convincing entries, and it gave me some smiles looking at it. especially the “lvl 99” - that was a huge lol for me. :smiley:
geeks rock! but i miss a monochrome version of it :stuck_out_tongue:

bergquist, great you’ve finished your work! now barbarians can raid the jury and plunder their beer supplies.
and thank you for stopping by and motivate me! best wishes to you!

aven99, thank you. when it creates a creepy feeling, it shows me the concept works. :smiley:

#97

Nicely done, I liked all previous version of your images and this one is cool too. Cool idea with special filtr on top, it add something extra to it.

#98

hey serio,

glad you like it. :slight_smile:
also congratulations to your entry; the guy with the stereoglasses on and the one in the womens underwear made me laugh. :smiley:

best wishes,
bran

#99

hey! Your composition, colors, tones, all preparation is impeccable. All is well impressive. great work, brother!

#100

good old zombies… nice image man…great mood… Congratulations on finishing!