You and me and art and stuff

[Krytos]

Nice works fellas

 

@JH: Wasn't that the same bloke who did or inspired the art for Tool's Lateralus

[JediHunter]

@JH: Wasn't that the same bloke who did or inspired the art for Tool's Lateralus

Yep sure is Krytos , his work is just awesome.. if you havent.. you should check out his site... and definately check out the sacred mirrors.. awesome..

[Mitth_raw_nuruodo]

How about a link, JH?

[JediHunter]

that probably would have been good huh?..

 

Here you go http://www.alexgrey.com

[Mitth_raw_nuruodo]

Awesome, JH. Thanks.

[DarthTex]

Since doing the "mod" on the Pirates of the Caribbean movie poster with Dinochick's special appearance, I had such fun with that, that I had to do yet another:

 

STAR WARS: Pirates of Corellia

 

http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/9484/dinotexpiratesz0.jpg

 

(It's all in Japanese anyway, so I made my own title )

[DarthTofu]

Wow... you fit in seamlessly, Tex.

[DarthTex]

If the thread with everyone's picture hadn't disappeared, I would have taken your snowboarding picture Tofu, and placed your face in for Orlando Bloom's

[DarthTofu]

Ah, but then the picture would be too sexy! The three of us- it might well send the world mad!

 

I'll post that pic again just for you, Tex!

 

... But first I have a bit of text on my clip board that is begging to be pasted in the randomness thread.

 

Edit: Bask in my beauty! http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a169/DarthTofu/scan0002.jpg

 

My oddity also makes for nice basking!

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a169/DarthTofu/DSCN0344.jpg

 

And yes, I know that I'm not that good looking. I only pretend to be conceited for the sake of making folks laugh. If you didn't find it funny I believe BS recently posted a lovely image in the "randomness" thread you ought to take a look at.

[Mad78]

Mind if I take a go at integrating Tofu?

I will post the modded pic later.

[JediHunter]

hmm.. i guess... i just noticed this time around... whats with all the trolls behind you there Tofu?... planning an invasion?..

[DarthTofu]

hmm.. i guess... i just noticed this time around... whats with all the trolls behind you there Tofu?... planning an invasion?..

 

*Glances around shifty-eyed* Maybe I am!

 

Nah, we were at Epcot in a 'Norway' shop.

[Krytos]

A test I did for class - a mixture of advanced texturing materials and new modelling techniques (Well for me).

Works for both Maya and Max, the final output was done in MAX. Work in Progress.

http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/5134/thefreak01bt1.th.jpg

[Mad78]

May i ask what the techniques and the materials are? You make me curious.

[Jahled]

Very nice Krytos sir!

[DarthTofu]

People like you are the reason I moved my webcomic out of this thread, Krytos- you overshadow it too much! Very pretty- reminds me of a rather large, naked man chisled out of stone which I saw at an art museum once.

[JediHunter]

Very pretty- reminds me of a rather large, naked man .....

 

 

messing with you Tofu..... anyways.. thats pretty cool there Krytos.

[Krytos]

Glad everyone liked it. It's my very first attempt of modelling a face . . non-human of course

Ok, my VERY first lasted 10 minutes, an involved extruding a sphere ... not cool ... not cool at all.

 

Still, this turned out great by my books - could use a lot more work, but for a first it's fantastic. The material uses mental ray/Max's Sub Surface Scattering Skin material - very cool. Here's an earlier version of the material as I worked on it:

http://img92.imageshack.us/img92/9013/thefreakrubber01tq0.th.jpg

Rubber man! Ah, rubber thing? Rubber freak *mumble mumble*

[Mad78]

Not bad but definitely needs some work.

Are you a partisan of polygon modelling or do you prefer splines?

(I tend to mix them)

[Mitth_raw_nuruodo]

Looks good Krytos.

[Krytos]

I do a mixture depending on what I'm modelling Mad. Spline is best for cured surfaces. But poly's are quicker and easier - and some times better at getting details.

In the case of that head model, it was poly with a NURMs subdivisional polysmooth to give the end result after building up the model.

 

I'm finiky over what I model with, if I start with spline I'll end with spline. Some things work better with spline, basically anything that's a curved edge - simply because to make a curved edge work with poly it involves a bit of work to set it up and then a meshsmooth, and there's only so much control.

A lot of my rescent game models were made with spline - my Ranger gunship for example was 100% spline . . or close to that. I've also got a Strident Star Defender model on hold, that was made primarily with spline, converted to mesh and optimised in mesh.

[JediHunter]

im not going to pretend like this isn't over my head.. hehehe.. cuz i think you lost me back at here look.. lol.. but you said your first attempt took you only 10 minutes but that was a sphere..... how long did this intricate guy take you Krytos?.. just out of curiosity..

[Krytos]

Well, it was following a tute while being on the net, watching TV, working on other stuff, going out for a jog, and other crap. All in all, I did it over the space of a day - but it probably took a few hours to do. Next time it shouldn't be so long. But there was also the fact that the tute was for Maya, and not Max - so some things took a little translation.

 

I've found I'm a bad modeller at home, I procrastinate too much.

[Mad78]

My first try at abstract art.

 

http://s15.photobucket.com/albums/a359/Mad78/th_abstract1bis.png

 

What do you guys think?

[DarthTofu]

The softer wave-like effect on the bottom is very cool and somewhat calming. It almost reminds me of a wave in the ocean, but smoothed out somewhat and softened.

 

The sphere doesn't seem to fit in with it as much, unfortunately...