March 25, 2007
This piece was done for a contest at the Danish 3D community 3dmaxer.dk with the theme The Silent Killer. I quickly decided that I wanted to do an alternative interpretation of the subject than what was immediately conceivable (which sadly meant no cool, dangerous and sneaky ninjas for my part). :)
"the silent killer" focuses on a very silent killer we all can be very sure will get us someday: Time. It is one of the aspects of life we can be completely certain of; it will not last forever. The old man here is on the edge of his life, reflecting upon his past. Sadly though, not all pass away of natural courses, but many do, and I wanted to depict that in this piece.
- Work in progress work of the old man.
I worked pretty hard for about a month on "the silent killer" to get it done in time for the contest deadline. The old man is a combination of polymodeling, sculpting upon that and use of the displacement modifier for even further detail. The head ended up in multires level 5 with over 300.000 faces. On top of this is also a bump map adding even more details.
The grandfather clock is polymodeled, and details were added to it with a bump map. It took around 15-16 hours to render this piece at its native 1750x2000 pixel resolution. The photos on the walls were actual photos I manipulated faces on in Photoshop to fit the cartoon look of the old man better. There is a closer look at this work in my 2D Portfolio.
The image is composited, retouched and post-processed upon in Photoshop. Due to the deadline, things like subtle hair strands and slight fluff on the sweater had to be painted in.
Thanks to all who posted feedback in the wip-thread at 3dmaxer.dk!
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