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Nosferatu (or This Picture Sucks)
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Post by W!ZARD // Jan 28, 2007, 2:03am
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Howdy Folks.
Here's a little something I knocked up using some of my earlier models. The suspension bridge has appeared in various other pictures and the church building was originally built for my "Autumn in Venice" pic. These were built in tS 6.6 then exported to Vue 5 Esprit which I used to compose and render the background.
The result was then used as a background shader in trueSpace. The vampire character was started in Makehuman 0.9 and finished and textured in tS 6.6 with textures painted using The GIMP.
The final touch was building a bat in tS 6.6 and bending several copies to make a small flock then composing and lighting the results in tS 6.6.
I've just finished reading "The Night Watch" by Russian author Sergei Lukyanenko which inspired this picture. Not my usual type of subject.
I hope you all enjoy this and please leave a comment or two.
Cheers
W!ZARD |
Post by TheWickedWitchOfTheWeb // Jan 28, 2007, 2:54am
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I like! But then I have a thing about vampires.
Only real comment would be o move the head a fraction as the bridge loks like drool off the teeth or pierced to the lip! But then maybe that was the intention?
Hope this'll be a series. |
Post by W!ZARD // Jan 28, 2007, 3:45am
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Cheers WWOTW. I'm glad you like. I too have a thing about Vampires, ever since I read Dracula as a young man and Salems Lot was the first Stephen King book I read (scared the willies out of me IIRC). I've read pretty much everything ever written by Anne Rice too - Lestat rocks! There's something sinister and sexy about Vampires.
I wasn't planning a series though, although the Gothic motif is quite appealing to me. In fact I was thinking of going to the opposite fantasy extreme and trying my hand at a fairy picture next as I got some interesting ideas on making wings when I built the bats....
Re the head placement - that didn't quite pan out as I originally intended - I sort of wanted to give the impression that the bridge was symbollicly entering his mouth, delivering his human prey as it were. The Vampire was originally going to be in full profile but I later decided to turn him toward the viewer a little which altered the effect somewhat but hopefully still works |
Post by TheWickedWitchOfTheWeb // Jan 28, 2007, 4:09am
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Fairies schmaires - bring on the vamp pics! |
Post by Ambrose // Jan 28, 2007, 11:00am
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Where's my Garlic...
SeYa/Ambrose... |
Post by btspro // Jan 28, 2007, 11:11am
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Hay W!zard:
Love the Vampire I am related to Bram Stoker. I loved them even before I found that out, the modeling on the head is great and the lay out is wall done too, one thing I would put some sort of reflective light behind the head turned way down where you could see a little of the contours on the side of the head, gust to give the head a little more interest, because what I can see I think it is cool:) please do more of this kind of pics!! |
Post by W!ZARD // Jan 29, 2007, 1:38am
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Well I guess if there is sufficient demand for ampires I might be persuaded to try another vampire picture. But first, in the interests of equal representation for BOTH sides of the Force, I'm doing a Fairy picture, Fairy Nuff?
btspro, I experimented with lighting the near side of his head a little but I felt the hard silhouette was more dramatic. |
Post by ProfessorKhaos // Jan 29, 2007, 4:11am
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Your last comment just gave me an idea... specifically the slight mispelling of vampires part:
Well I guess if there is sufficient demand for ampires...
Sounds like the perfect villian for a energy conservation commercial. Instead of blood sucking teeth he can suck current from your wall outlet using plug shaped canines instead. Makes the electric bill go up substantially! :D
I like what you did with Vue5 in the background too. Must be building up an impressive library of objects by now! I'd agree about the bridge part the way it leads to the mouth. I notice you have Venus in the background (sorry folks, talking about the sky... not one of the windows on a far building :)). Just the geeky astronomer in me realizing that tidbit... |
Post by digitaldali // Jan 29, 2007, 4:44am
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I love it! Very Carpathian:D great job! |
Post by TomG // Jan 29, 2007, 8:48am
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As a kid I used to play in Slain's Castle, a crumbling ruin teetering on the edge of dramatic cliffs down to the sea below. Bram Stoker used to holiday in Cruden Bay, the nearby village, on a regular basis, in the Kilmarnock Arms (where we'd go for pub lunches), and it is said that Slain's Castle was part of the inspiration for the Dracula novel.
It was a cool place to play anyway, since I knew none of that at the time :)
Cool pic too!
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Post by W!ZARD // Jan 29, 2007, 11:00pm
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Your last comment just gave me an idea... specifically the slight mispelling of vampires part:
Sounds like the perfect villian for a energy conservation commercial. Instead of blood sucking teeth he can suck current from your wall outlet using plug shaped canines instead. Makes the electric bill go up substantially! :D
I like what you did with Vue5 in the background too. Must be building up an impressive library of objects by now! I'd agree about the bridge part the way it leads to the mouth. I notice you have Venus in the background (sorry folks, talking about the sky... not one of the windows on a far building :)). Just the geeky astronomer in me realizing that tidbit...
LOL - Ampires! I hadn't noticed that! I like the way you've 'amp'lified the idea - though in my experience it's the utility company that makes the bills go up!
"Ampire" - could be the guy who officiates at a Robot Wars meet. Do Ampires live in the Ampire State Building? Apologies for all these shocking puns :D :D .
Speaking as one geeky Astronomer to another, well spotted Professor, yes it is indeed supposed to be Venus.
Wow Tom. I never knew you had pub lunches with Bram Stoker - and I thought I was old!! ;) ;) . Seriously though, I'd guess that means you are a long way from home.
I'm glad you all enjoyed my picture, thanks for taking the time to comment. |
Post by TomG // Jan 30, 2007, 6:34am
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Haha yes he was a fun person to chat to, gave him a few pointers here and there, you know how it is with having a lifespan measurable in centuries ;)
Yep, long way from home, approximately 4000 miles give or take. Of course Slain's wasn't a ruin in Bram Stoker's day, according to some places that was where he stayed (Bram Stoker that is, in Slain's) so I guess it was still standing back then (either that or he had a thing about sleeping in ruins).
I also see from doing a web search on it due to this posting, that it's going to be turned into a set of holiday homes now :( Oh well, glad I got to run into darkened cellars, and race between crumbling walls, and stare out of windows almost straight down a cliff face to the roiling sea below, while I still could.
Anyway, keep the pics coming, great to see such a variety in theme and content!
Thanks!
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Post by W!ZARD // Jan 30, 2007, 1:03pm
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you know how it is with having a lifespan measurable in centuries Oh yes! Some mornings more than others! ;)
I think I'm a bit further from my ancestral home than you though - 19003 Kilometers between Kent, England and Christchurch New Zealand (that's 11808 miles for the metricly challenged!).
Well you've tweaked my curiosity so I've just googled Slains Castle - it certainly looks pretty spooky, even in the sunny photos. It might even make a good subject for a trueSpace scene so I've bookmarked some sites for possible reference images. Certainly looks like a place to fire the imagination! |
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