Meditating Insectoid

s7ryk3r

Hello everyone,
This is my first post on here so I figured I would share my latest personal piece for starters. Its is a meditating insectoid alien I have had in my mind for a while now (also been sitting unfinished on my hard drive for a while) but I downloaded the latest version of the CryEngine and thought it was finally time to share this piece. You may have seen it on other 3D forums already... Hope you enjoy!

Sculpted, textured in Zbrush. Rendered in CryEngine 3. Some raw texture compiling in Photoshop. Base mesh modeled and posed in Maya at 15200 polygons.

SouthpawSid

I'm tripping balls right now

SouthpawSid

sorry. In all seriousness though, ditch the rainbow bg. It's destroying your presentation. Go for something subtle that wont detract from your model. Your bug model is pretty awesome though.

BARDLER

Your model is getting completely lost in the background you picked. There is nothing wrong with having a background or environment to go with your character presentation but it shouldn't over power your character, it should be there to make your character stand out.

daphz

I like this, but it's really hard to read your presentation with that crazy background. The DoF helps bring focus to him but he's still similar colors to the stuff behind him. The red shell of the bug is also kind of monochromatic, I think adding some secondary purples or greens in there might help balance things out

Aga22

i'm the only one who likes the crazy background ! heh. really good job mate.

Uninter

Haha, yeah I like the background, it makes it super unique... although if you're trying to present the model rather than just have a nice render, you would definitely benefit from having something less busy!

AimBiZ

He doesn't strike me as meditating, rather dancing. Might be the rainbow background that makes everything look more dynamic but maybe you should fold his legs together and have him in a more symmetrical pose.

e-freak

awesome work Andrew

s7ryk3r

Thanks for the critiques everyone!

I was aiming for an overall nice render but if it takes away from my character you are all probably right, I could tone the brightness down or something like that in the background. I just wanted to make sure it was setting an obvious psychedelic mood. I pictured him as sort of a guardian to some spiritual journey leading the way on a lotus flower through a kaleidoscope of colors!

s7ryk3r

Oh and thank you Frieder, I didn't realize you were on here too :P