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Finally back in business with a personal project. It has been a long time since I finished “What Will Never Be” which was quite a different type of image for me. So, I’m back to a project that I left hanging far too long since last year, I’m still undecided to put it together in Unreal editor or just go for more hyper realism in Maya, I still have time to decide…

I have started to put the scene together even though I’m not done modeling assets. I wanted to see how the main characters were jiving and wanted to “lock down” the camera angle to see how it was working. I do like where this is headed, the low res girl is FPO (for placement only) so never mind her feet sticking out. I’m gonna make this creepier by placing dead bodies in the water.

Another update, that’s 2 days in a row, new record! Anyways, Here is a quick ambient occlusion test render of “Death” with sword in hand. I hope the final image turns out as creepy as I’m looking for.

Finally an update for this image, a small one but at least some progress. Finished modeling Death’s hands and sword. I found a very cool LoTR sword reference online that I think looks very menacing.

Here is the girl in her final pose but her orientation will be different in the image composition.

Finished sculpting the girl, now it is time to pose her. Right now I am happy on how this image is progressing.

Here is character 2 of 2, I started from a base mesh I found at ZBrush central, lmc if I can find who made the base mesh to give him/her credit. Once opened in ZBrush I deleted the high level subdivisions in order to really start from the base and not be influenced by the original details. I used James Busby’s female model and my anatomy books for reference. This still needs to be polished, sculpt the ears, add muscles, tendons and fleshy tissue to the hands and feet. I feel like this is a good starting point.

woop woop, here we go again with another personal project. This one will be very creepy but with a strong message or at least that’s what I hope the outcome will be. The idea was sparked over a conversation I had with a friend about a controversial issue. Will not be so literal so let’s see how it turns out. Here is the beginning of character 1 of 2 that will be in the image.

Oh yes! After so much time working on this on and off, getting sick of it and putting it off for months to keep going on/off again and again, I can say that it is finally done. Lots of friends and colleagues gave me great feedback during the making of this image; so thank you to all of you that critiqued, commented and supported me during this process. On to the next one!

Came up with a preliminary lighting take of where I was thinking for this image. I usually try to light after texturing but I wanted to give this a shot and see how I felt about it.