Character : Scarecrow

[virrgil_182]

Completed using about 50 / 50 Zbrush and Photoshop.

My first attempt at the whole modelling, texturing, lighting gig.

A frustrating, but interesting experience.

Best,
Matthew Goodsell

http://www.goodsellart.com/scarecrow.jpg

http://www.goodsellart.com/scarecrow2.jpg

[Sammy]

very nice! keep up the good work

on your next one experement more with ambient effects like volumetric lights and the such..

the atmosphere is great I just feel that it needs some sorta fog or somethin'

excellent

[Clodhopper]

looks like it would scare more than crows...thats creepy dude.the foreground is cool. but anyway i really don't like that layered background you got going on - doesn't work at all. you got bright to dark, then to bright again, then theres tht big dark tree. its just out of order.
I wish there were more zbrush images on this site. I don't understand z-brush at all, just seems too weird to get used to. but looks like you know some things, that fabrick on the torso and bonnet is nyze!

oh and the blurs! you got crops that are blurred in the middleground against that dark crisp background layer- and then another blurred layer beyond that! the depth is screwy becuase of that-imho

[virrgil_182]

Wow... 2 comments so soon, and both with good crits. Thank you very much.


Yes, I apologize to all for the scabrous lighting and z blurring errors in the background.... it is hand painted in photoshop on about a billion layers and I get carried away screwing around... taking way too much artistic license.

Sammy, I did have fog included in the original file but turned the layers off before posting... put em back in the above images.... understand the "fog" is a very simple painted layer or two.. real quick. I am excited about playing with advanced lighting effects in future work but for this piece all I was really trying was to successfully model the character.

Clodhopper ..... the tree... that damn tree ! ........ I must have moved the layer and turned it off then on again a thousand times.... I posted above two more images.. one with the tree gone and another in it's initial position...

Thanks again for the crits.

[tyboogie]

virrgil are you trying to make me cry?

BTW whats the Z brush?