Some posing and lighting tests. I chopped both models, turning them into two mannequin proxys. This way it’s much quicker for me to pose them, instead of rigging or using transpose. Those processes will be used at the end, when I’m satisfied with the final poses.
Some posing and lighting tests. I chopped both models, turning them into two mannequin proxys. This way it’s much quicker for me to pose them, instead of rigging or using transpose. Those processes will be used at the end, when I’m satisfied with the final poses. I added a 50’s kinda bar stool to help with the poses. I’ll add a 4th character to the scene and two props that will help a lot to tell the story. Stay tuned for my evil plan, muahahahaaaaa…
Just great!
You should leave this chopped characters as they are and give the alien a big and sharp knife 
Good luck to you!
Awesome Kris! The composition, the colors, the light everything is soo perfect :drool:
Love the direction you took for the poses and lighting.
Im sure you got some crazy fur tests on your hard drive 
Ok, i quit this challenge… wait a sec i dont even have an entry on this challenge lol !, this is just Amazing Kris, all my respects i cant really wait to see this finalized!! the IRS thing with robot arms and laser beam eyes, and of course exposed brain it’s wonderful! and still is a WIP :surprised, just great
Vimmy,
thank you my friend and keep the kick ass work coming!
KiMiK, FranciscoAlvarezDelgado, webhead,
thanks a lot!
hemlok,
indeed!
ravioli_rancher,
hahaha! Sweet comment! You’re a funny man and I love your entry so far!
RageOfAges,
I 200% agree with you and yes, my plan is to cover everything is uncovered now, including the girls things (awwww… 
… )
Aven99,
thank you good sir!
MDR,
ha! Thank you
Kong-in-Chains,
the eyes shader is actually incredibly simple. I can post something over the weekend. It’s just a fast skin shader for the eyeball/sclera and a transparent blin for the cornea.
gpepper,
now you got it 
collings,
man, it’s my pleasure. I’m the one who should be thanking the community for being such a constant source of inspiration!
thejeff,
back to you my friend! Love your entry.
PELENG,
you sir are a master and I can’t wait to see your final and kickass entry!
Eskarina,
thank you so much! I love what you’re doing 
jocz,
actually not! I’m kinda concerned about the hair. If everything goes wrong I’ll end up by painting it. I’m trying to use only the softwares that I have licenses, so no chance to try any fancy renders like Modo or Vray or even shave and a haircut plugin. So, I’ll stick with Maya/Mental Ray and will see how far I can go with it!
AdanVC,
thanks!
angel,
long time don’t see you around man! Are you going to participate of this one? Fun theme I’ll tell ya!
-Kris
Ah!!! Love the relation between the monkey and the Pinup girl! Looks so sexy and weird at the same time… Bmovie style! =D
Gostei! Força!!
This is looking just so amazing, Kris! The colors are fantastic and very period. I’m not as big a fan of having the title right over the center of the poster, especially when the upper left is so empty, as it takes a little away from the beautiful image. THe woman’s expression feels a bit empty right now, not sure whether that was what you are shooting for. Sexy models can certainly be vapid, but myself, I like seeing more expression and emotion. But that’s just down to personal preferences, I can’t say it doesn’t fit as is, though!
Great work!
Lookin as if it was straight out of that time period for 50’s or 60s B movies…Very impressed with how you set up the composition…i see rule of thirds as one of them.
Not much to add to the chorus already unfortunately, but really well done!!
Marley
really great to see you in another competition mr.antropus !
i remember when you won machineflesh ;me and my friends in college would sit around saying ’ man how does he do that?!antro is the man!’ you are a major source of inspiration always
cheers,
damien
Wow, some really impressive models. I love the alien and the chimp is just amazing. :bounce:
Personaly I am not sure about the pose of the lady and the chimp. From your inital sketch I was expecting the chimp to run towards the camera with one arm up to shield him from the laser beams. Right now they seem to be quite unimpressed by that alien.
But these are just my 2 ct. You have done an amazing job so far and I am looking forward for the next update. :arteest:
Torsten
Updated on this one:
Now I’m ready to start the UVs for both characters so I can finally add some nice texturing instead of plain polypaint.
-Kris
Malanjo,
obrigado meu amigo!
walrus,
her facial expression is still in progress but should look better on this recent update.
Thanks.
LightSovereign, TyroneMaddams
thank you!
MayaDamien,
thank you so much man. I can’t believe that was 6 years ago o_O
Russel-Nash,
still working on her expression but he is going to have a major update on his facial expression. I’ll model his teeth so he will be showing some anger towards the alien, don’t worry. About her, well, she is caught on her own little world of being pretty… those pin-ups can be so futile!
-Kris
antropus, this is really excellent work. probably my fav in this competition. excellent poses and great character design!.
can you explain a lil bit more in depth about the choped up models; the way your posing them? just curious how your gona go on about reprojecting the detail onto the original models or is that even necessary? never seen posing done like that before, unless its a standard way of doing it and im completely out of the loop haha
thanks!
Gio,
thanks for stopping by man. I’m glad you’re liking it so far
big-whoop,
sure. Chopped characters like this are normally used in production. Animators would pose and animate characters using proxy versions of the final models that sometimes are the actual asset, only chopped so they can animate faster since there are no deformations involved but mere objects that can be freely moved/rotated. So I’m doing the same thing here. Instead of worrying about bad deformations and time consuming skinning, I just chopped them, moved the pivots to where the joints should be and voila: ready for posing in seconds! I’ll not transfer anything from those proxy models. They are merely a reference for the final poses that will most probably be done in ZBrush transpose or Maya, maybe a little of both. All changes are being made to the original models, not the proxies so there’s no need to transfer anything. I can just import those as another subtool and work on top of it
Cheers,
-Kris
