My 3December entry ( The Dream Machine) contains nudity

[Matija]

Hi all!
As the title says, this is (a part) of my entry at this years 3December contest.
Since it's a fairly short sequence, and a lot of work flow depended on Mudbox, I thought of posting some shots here, both from Mudbox and from the final version. Just to note, my (not so good) tablet broke down and as a result this had to be done with a mouse :S

Concerning the scene itself, it was partially inspired by Mozart's "Magic Flute", a powerful instrument of summoning and security.
This image was boiling in my head for some time now, and I thought it would fit in to the theme I picked out for myself.
For the portrait I used a couple of images taken from a friend to which I am truly grateful.

Here are a couple of shots from Mudbox.
Head and body sculpt:

http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee285/mvolvox/BodyFace.png

Shot of the complete instrument:

http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee285/mvolvox/Instrument.png

And a shot of the horn, with a sheet of some of the planes that were sculpted, baked to 32bit Displacement maps, and then used as stencils and stamps on various parts of the character:

http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee285/mvolvox/HornSheet.png

And at last, a shot from the final scene:

http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee285/mvolvox/LaMacchinaDiSongo.jpg

If you haven't already, go check out this years entries at : http://3december.wacom.com/ (http://3december.wacom.com/)

You can find my entry at http://3december.wacom.com/entries#13877

If you like it please do leave a vote.
If you really like it mention it to a couple of people. It would be really helpful to me.

I am grateful for any kind of support!

Cheers

[Wayne]

Nice work.


Wayne...

[spindraft]

Great job man. I think you could have cut some of the details on the girl a bit harder, but the forms are there. And the horn thing she's coming out of, that's just fantastic.

Great job. ;)

[Matija]

Hey guys! I'm really glad you like it...
Yeah, I kind of rushed a bit through the girl (and through the player too), I didn't want to get stuck on something and sacrifice the rest of the scenes because of it. But I'll probably return to this scene sometime in the future, and give it some more work. I did plan to make some white doves flying from within the horn, but again I needed to cut that out, in order to make sure I'll have time to finish the rest of the scenes.

Again, if you like it, please to leave your vote.
It would be of out most help!

Cheers!

[Hulahuga]

Really nice piece. The idea was very nice indeed :D:D

[Shawry]

Looks sweet... are you going to detail the chester dude? he kinda feels left out with all the detail on the horn..

[Matija]

Hey guys!
I'm glad you like it. As for the jester... Yeah I did left him out a bit. If I do return to this in the future, he will get what he deserves. Even though I would be cautious, I wouldn't want to get an opposite effect either.

I hope you voted, if you haven't I hope you do!

Cheers!