showing my latest work

[veljko]

Just signed in for the first time, so what better way to introduce my selfe but with a lw pic i made:)

-any comments are wellcome

[dzogchen]

This is such a cool character!:D

[voovoo]

whatta great design! simply love it!

is it gonna be animated? would love to see it moving...

keep up the awesome work

v.

[Trinity]

Very cool! Always inspiring to see such interesting work.

[riki]

hey veljko nice character design. Yep I bought in when I was a student.

[hrgiger]

Looks like something Tim Burton would have come up with. I approve....

[Doran]

looks like a voodoo fetish doll...

[trentonia]

Yeah, I was going to say that it looks like a cross between "nightmare before christmas" and poindexter. Cool.

[KissMyGrits]

Frigginsanity.

[richpr]

Very nice... reminds me of eastern european cartoons...

[MorituriMax]

Very awesome! Waiting for more stuff from that setting.

[veljko]

thanx for the cool replies
im glad you liked it!

i am at the moment finishing a puzzle game with my team- almoust all graphics is done in lw.

here is a sneek prewiev of how it looks:)

[MorituriMax]

You da man! A wierd wierd man, but da man nonetheless!

:D

[KissMyGrits]

Originally posted by jhax2003
as for the poll.... download lightwave off of kazaa, lol

Wow. An intelligent thing to suggest on the official Newtek forum.

[allaboutkeys]

Now jhax2003 got banned...

[Capel]

dude, amazing style, and great texturing. It's nice to see something REALLY original every now and then!

[veljko]

thanx:)

im glad you liked it-
!

[KissMyGrits]

I totally called that one.

[scottn]

Hey Veljko, where are you from? What kind of work are you involved with? By the way, your character is excellent. How did you get the material/cloth right?

[veljko]

hi,

Im from Split, Croatia- Just winished the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb- `em currently the lead artist in a game dev. studio lemonade productions (www.lemonade-p.com) in my home town-Split
But basicly I do all sorts of things in 3d and 2d (mainly 3d)-
about the materials, i just played around- Basicly i trie to picture what would happen over time to a certain material in real world, and then apply thoes things to my materials-
as for the cloth of the puppet the main thing is the bump map-
i used the bump image as a alpha map to make the dirt between the strands of cloth, and for the specularity maps, alpha maps for different colour layers and all sorts of things..

hope this helps..

[lapaz]

First of all, your model looks great, but have you seen the cartoon Lenore by Roman Dirge? Your character looks a lot like Mr. Gosh....

Link: http://soratoyume.4mg.com/lenore/Lenore/MrGosh.html

[veljko]

funny:),
never seen it before-
its interesting how two people somehow have the same mental garbage that pours out in the same form of a sack boy with buttons instead of eyes-:)

[Carbon71]

I just love it. Great work on that "worn look" left eye button.

Can you tell us a little about the lighting setup?

[veljko]

Thanx:)

I was realy pleased with how it turned out, actualy called the first finished image "Pupet-finished-yepee" :)

The light setup is rather simple,

I placed 3 lights alltogether

1 light was an area light for the main lightening of the scene. I learn a little trick of the lw3d user group- If you increase the size of the are light (i size it to 5..) it drops soft shadows.

2 light was a backlight (i use spot lights for backlights..) I place this light on the oposite side of the main light to break the darkness of the main shadows and get the "reflected light" look on the dark sides of the object (it could be considered as fake radiosity trick..). I usually give this light lower value then the main light and oriente it to face the main shadows.

3 light was the main spot light- i used a spot light (offcourse:) ) with some volumetrics with a bluish hue on it.

and, thats it- hope it helps:)

[dmg3d]

allaboutkeys-

"Everybody else is just green"

Pink Floyd? Just curious.