B-Movie Entry: Joel Appugliese

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#22

interesting models, i can imagine masses of humans fleeing before them. but i miss tons of claws, long teeth and all things that bring pains :smiley:

especially like the guy with the single eye, could be a smasher :wip:

#23

I like the designs you are going after. will be a fun watch over this thread!

#24

Hey Joel, haven’t seen you on for awhile, then again, I’ve been less than consistent lately with my posting. Anyway, cool start. Best of luck!

#25

Design Process for Fishman

#26

Hey Tim thanks for stopping by. Yeah I’ve been prety busy at work, and the Ansel Adams Challenge couldn’t hold my interest. I was actually going to start something for it last minute because I was itching, but then I saw this new CGChallenge up so I threw my lot in here instead.

@Yongkiat: Thanks for stopping by and thanks for the comment.

Ok so it’s been a few days since I posted. I’ve been mass producing little monsters and fell onto a concept I enjoyed, and the story developed from there.

[I]It has been generations since sailors all across the world have been capturing Mermaids and having their visceral ways with them. There has been an uneasy truce between man and beast while man has been kidnapping only the most homely of Mermaids, who are still stunningly beautiful by human standards, and the fishmen have been feasting on the unlucky sailors to have fallen overboard, dead to the world anyway.

One sailor saw a beautiful woman frolicking in the ocean and cast his net in the hopes of spending a warm night. Little did he know that this was the Princess of the local school. The fishmen were in an uproar and immediately launched an attack on the lonely sailors ship for a daring rescue![/I]

Cheers everyone!

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#27

Very nice new ZSphere creature mate… I see you are one zbrusher as well. The creature’s looking very promising!

#28

Thanks Yongkiat. The issue now is to figure out how to make him stand on the ship. Ahh…choices. I could make the tail fins horizontal rather than vertical, but I much prefer the shark tail over the whale tail. I was also thinking of making them fly. How, you may ask? It’s a B movie, so it doesn’t matter. That’s my justification anyway. Oh well, I’ll figure it out as the concept fleshes itself out.

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#29

that’s a pretty cool creature so far - looking forward to how it develops!

#30

nice concept man, i like it a lot!

reminds me a bit of Slardar from DOTA :stuck_out_tongue:

#31

Cool start. :cool:

Looking forward for more. Good luck with the challenge. :wip:

#32

I really like the Fishman! This is true B-movie stuff, like “Creature from the Black Lagoon”, one of the coolest movies… haha. Keep it up :thumbsup:




#33

looking sweet so far :slight_smile:
will be keeping watch :slight_smile:

#34

Some work on the creature

#35

Magda, nja3d, Russel, Xion, Cyberone: Thanks guys (and girls). Your encouragement is appreciated.

Well I didn’t get as much work done over the weekend as I was hoping to, but I’ve toyed around with the antagonist some more. The story behind the image has evolved into one including a mad scientist fish creature (current character work) who goes Doctor Moreau and starts chopping up fish and women then sewing them back together to create his bride, a mermaid.

I’ve got a busy week coming up, but I’ll try and post a little every night.

Cheers

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#36

Here’s a small list of assets I will be creating. I’ll return to this post to add and remove to/from the list as my mind conjures 'em up or takes 'em away.

-Jars of various shapes and sizes
-organs and body barts
-eyeball
-Brain
-hand
-heart?
-Vats with half people in them (either bottom or top)
-Vats with half fish in them (either bottom or top)
-Alchemy equipment-alembic, lots of glass tubes
-hanging sharks
-ridiculous goggles
-shelves for the jars
-Surgery equipment - Scalpel, scissors, and other nasty things.
-critters (starfish, lobster/crab, fishbowl with weird looking fish)
-Work station (Large table?)
-dead chick.

-Now this should keep you guessing.

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#37

Haha, sounds like ingredients for a pretty good B-movie mad scientist’s lab.

#38

Wow…load of elements you are planning for your scene!

#39

I was researching evil and mad scientists and came across this factoid. Thought I would share.

Excerpt from article:

In 1932 Ishii is promoted to lieutenant-colonel and placed in charge of the Epidemic Prevention Research Laboratory. He sets up an outpost of the laboratory at Harbin in northern Manchukuo. A second centre is then established at Beiyinhe, an isolated location 100 km south of Harbin. In addition of bacteriological warfare, studies were also conducted on human damage done by burns, freezing, high pressure, and bullets. At least 3,000 killed in experiments at the Unit 731 biological weapons facility. Approximately 200,000 killed in field tests of biological weapons. Between 20,000 to 30,000 Chinese killed when plague-infected rats are released from Unit 731 at the end of the Second World War.

Evil scientists in B movies = cool
Evil scientists in real life = lame

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#40

Laying out the scene here and doing some preliminary light testing. I’m looking for a lighting scene where there is a heavy spot light on the operating table, but with enough filler to show the vats in the back and clutter on each side. The clutter is less important, as long as I can get some variations within the shadows to hint at various instruments, containers, etc.
The vats will most likely be lit from the inside.

Here is the legend.

1 - Vats with mermaids in them
2 - Small table with sharp operating objects
3 - fish tail
4 - Evil monster scientist with…
5 - robot legs
6 - Dead chick cut in half
7 - Shelves with stuff on them (clutter)
8 - Cheesy computers with big buttons
9 - grubby tile floor with blood all over it.

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