Thank buggery thats done. Its taken a couple of long nights and hurried restarts but i finally finished this months 3dworldmag contest to model an underwater ruin. My initial concept was for an underwater church with Deep Ones in praying to an idol of Cthulhu but sadly I had to scrap it as somewhat overly ambitious. Taking a small amount of Cthulhu inspiration and adding some more aquatic themes i ended up with the render above. Overall i’m really happy with it. Its gloomy but its clear enough to see the scene and feel a sinister mood. I don’t know why the pillars came out with a reddish tint but its adds some colour to the scene so its not overly dominating. I tried to make the viewers eye follow the line of the tentacles from the bright spot down to the eye peering through the broken window.

The whole scene is rendered in c4d, the tentacles and head are zbrush zspheres which are textured in zbrush and imported into c4d. The altar is a c4d model exported to zbrush then brought back to c4d. The pillars and walls/floor are 100% c4d and the textures on the walls are taken from photos I took while in Aldeburgh at the weekend and painted on in c4d/bodypaint.

Things I could have added. More rubble, broken glass, vegetation, some more furniture in the church like pews or the priests lecturn.

More renders are on my picasa album

Using GoZ I dumped old bod here into c4d to do a quick test render of the material i’ve been painting and he’s coming along nicely.

The specular is far too high but then I should probably do a map for that as well. I think a tiny bit more work on the skin then onto the rest of the body.

I’m getting in the mood for the summer ‘super-family-special-holiday-funtime’ by clearing out some of my harddrive and playing with unfinished projects, so here is a little update of frogbear with a touch of colour. This is the start of a base coat for the skin and I have no idea what I am aiming for but its pretty fun to play with brushes paint tools, even if the damn thing keeps crashing… I’m not sure about the green at the moment and may go for a more browny tone but the sickly green does have a nice unearthly feel.

I will try and refine the body next then onto texturing.

I have a vision of a small mass of these hopping around the pond in Christchurch park. Only a foot or two high they could explain the lack of ducks lately. Look for feathers.