HMC 10 - Tiger Attacks


#41

And here are my beauty renders and little story:

“Limited Edition Genghis Attacks Commemorative Bronze Statue”

Let me introduce you to Genghis, resident male Bengal Tiger of the Ranthambhore National Park, India. Now Genghis was minding his own business, leasurely walking past the ruins of an old fort when suddenly a very loud noise could be heard and something impacted rather violently right in front of him on the ground and sprayed his face with debris. Alarmed, he quickly charged off into the cover of the nearby high grass.

Now, as you can imagine the impact was a bullet fired at him and the perpetrator was a pocher. In this case it was a rich Gangster Rapper from the Hood, who felt it necessary to add “Big Game Hunting” to his manly player credits and had bribed the local officials to get a guaranteed shot at a capital tiger. Since he missed his shot and the rifle jammed directly after that and Genghis took off into cover, our millionaire rapper was of course quick to appoint blame for the missed opportunity to everybody else except himself. In the commotion ensuing during the argument who was at fault, nobody noticed Genghis approaching. Now it was Genghis’s turn to take a shot at our tough mofo from the hood.

To commemorate the sad demise of said rapper, you can now own the limited edition “Genghis Attacks” bronze statue, as illustrated with a few images below. If all goes well, this nice collectible will be available as well in Meji-style bronze on an oval display stand with some bamboo plants added for ambiance. For more information please contact your favorite fine arts store! :wink:

larger version of the above image: HERE

This is it for this thread, I guess.

I have seen some stunnig work by you guys and can honestly say it has left me majorly inspired!

Great work everybody this was a great challenge!


#42

I thougt I’d upload these additional 3 images to make the 360 view turn complete:

As mentioned before, although the challenge is done and over, I still consider this a wip so any and all comments and crits are most welcome!

Skol!:arteest:


#43

What an artwork, congrats thats amasing. will you release a fur version? that would be great.

Where did you find the references for the muscle structure. im thinking of doing a tiger too but cant find any muscle references.

Once again congrats for incredible artwork.


#44

Many thanks for the compliments, xogun!:slight_smile:

As time permits I still plan to tackle the fur version and post it here. I’ll keep the thread updated in regards to that, but it will be a little while.

As far as big cat anatomy references go, I didnt find a lot online and had to collect a massive amount of tiger images downloaded from various sources as well as video resources.

For basic big cat anatomy I relied on the standard works such as: “Animal Anatomy” by Ellenberger etc. amazon.com has plenty of resources available. There is also a lot of dog anatomy to be found via google, which is basically the same but requires some more or less major adjustments here and there.

In case you do start to work on a tiger or other big cat, keep me posted. I always love to look at such works develop and as a lover of cats of all sizes very much enjoy the final results!


#45

Congrats on the amazing final sculpt, TheRazorsEdge! I especially like the first of the last images you posted. The angle and pose is really nice and dynamic.
You’ve done a really good job on the anatomy also. And the stylistic approach on the tiger strips was the icing on the cake. It really feels like a physical sculpture.

I also really like the paws. That was the hardest part for me I think. Mostly because I wasn’t paying enough to the references when modelling the base mesh (as far as the paws go at least) but also because I found them really hard to sculpt. But you did a beautiful job!!

FYI: www.bbcmotiongallery.com is an endless source of animal video reference. I’d recommend going there to anyone doing animal stuff.


#46

Thank you very much! :slight_smile:

Many thanks also for the BBC link. Very handy!:thumbsup:


#47

I like what you’ve done here. Beautiful!
As mentioned, it looks like a real sculpture and the stripe relief is a nice touch.


#48

Thank you very much for the kind words!


#49

Ok guys time to talk
LESSONS LEARNED (Animals in Motion): Lets TalK!
-R


#50

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