I sent those half raw half renders to the publisher for authorization. Its for the inner pages. They will be Black/White as they are now. Upon approvment some details will be finished in 3d, rendered, and then overpainted in 2d heavily. Also, there will be cover page in color. I need to compose it still.
I know there are some glitches because unoptimized weightpaind, but ill fix that, if not in 3d then by hand in 2d.
Thanks P1xelated!
Now here are my final black and white illustrations for inner pages. Those are blender renders, but heavily filtered in photoshop and really big time spent on brushing in photoshop. Much of overpainting and leveling of selections. Those finals have more a drawing feel, and contrasts are really high, because they have limitations when they will print it.
Somewhere i applied textures i cropped from some photos, like those far backgrounds and some vegetation. Some of vegetation are free models or purchased through daz3d. I had not much time to paint it all by hand, but they are all modified an overpainted to the level of unreckognition. Some vegetation, especially grass, are done through blender particle hair system. Loads of it. Some are hand painted in photoshop.
Hair and fur are also blender particles, but i have beautified some parts by painting it in photoshop.
As i said many glitches that were result of really quick rig and weight/paint setup were corrected by hand in photoshop.
Now i am working on cover page…
Mowgli and Hathi and his sons:
Mowgli’s victory
Python Kaa
Mowgli and Bandar-Log Tribe
Mowgli, Baloo and Bagheera Idyll
And this is blender render of the visual i send to approvement before detailing, for cover page
It is a little bit rough in colours etc., you know what i mean.
This is scene when Mowgli casts away wolves with fire, but i also added some animals that were not in that scene… for cover page richness.
Please c&c.
Looks good the panther looks too black to me and I can’t see any details on him but I like what you did with the rest. Great work and good way to show off what can be done with open source software.
Nikita: thanks 
Dann-o: yeah panther is really dark, but in color image she will have some reflections which will light up some detailing! Im afraid in black/white image there will be no more detailing, because printing capabilities of this book edition. Even in color variant, there is not too much need for extra detailing, because it will occupy a relative small area (it is a handbook).
But ill try add some details when the publisher approve my colored composition.
And oh, onot completely open source software. I planned to use all open source for this, but i was forced to use Photoshop for postprocessing (rather than Gimp), because i am 2-3 time faster when handling with Photoshop, and my deadlines were really looming.
But i admit that the power of those OpenSource programs are really incredible! Wings3d is clearest subdivision modeler I experienced, and good uv unwrapper. Blender i excellent for everything. It has very fast rendering. In this project i learned much about power of its particle hair options. Interface may be frightening, but now when im used to it, im fine with it. Theyll make it better in version 2.6. Im experiment a little with version 2.5s, but for commercial work i stick to 2.49.
Thanks for follow and support!
it looks really nice! I kinda have a soft-spot for kids books these days, and i gotta say, its really really great, especially with open-source work!!
Hey Jed! Thanks for your kind words
Yea it is for kids, though you know, if you read the book, you will find that it is not at all like Disneys cartoon! It is pretty brutal, savage world of Jungle; and book contains, maybe not in such explicite form, a violent parts. It is more a early teenager book!
I have a go for my color composition, now i am going to detail the cover page
I really like the end result it is an unusual way to get to thsi end but the results are worth it.
Dann - hahaha i agree, at last i could get to this in PS only, more easy way, but of course now it is very easy once i have rendered image in Blender, having all that volume, lights and composition defined, to overpaint it, to smudge paint it and breathe extra life into it…
Remember that i used and reused that models for black and white illustrations also. Anyway, i could get that easier, but im happy getting more experience in Blender and Wings 3d!
Im still working on the overpaint, i have great many of details to work on it, it is time consuming but eventually i will produce some rich- content picture for the kids and onthers
O.K. I need to finish this . I call it finished, though i could paint it more and more. :curious:
Spent a lots of hours in Photoshop painting over a Blender render.
Final picture is here
p.s. At last i put it in 2d gallery because it has more 2d artwork feel in spite it is started as 3d!
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