My Contest Entry wireframe

[John Bigboote]

Here is a wireframe to final gif of my mosquito image contest entry.

 

This image was 100% generated in A:M with NO Photoshopping at all... not even a levels or curves. Image took about 4 hours in all, 2 hours in 2 days... I like to 'come back' to a project with fresh eyes after sleeping on it overnight- that is when I decided to add the hand. A:M's hair was used on the CU arm and on the mosquito- with a little grooming on each to get it to bend in the right directions. Image was rendered with Depth-of-Field ON in multipass with 100 passes, taking about 32 minutes. The part that worked surprisingly well for me was the lines in the wings, I employed 'render as lines' feature and was very happy with the results. Light in the sky for the sun simply has Lens-Flares turned ON at 10% intensity. The texture for the mosquitos body is a Darktree material... TX Abstract/absCreepy with a bump setting pushed up.

 

Rob asked me in the interview why I made him look menacing... and I was really just going for photorealism this time and the photo reference I had googled up looked menacing. Plus, when you think about it- mosquitos are something to be feared... they offer very little benefits like a bee does, they are flying parasites that can smell you from 20 yards away and are able to land on a vieny area to bite you. The bites leave swollen itchy red spots and can transmit lethal diseases such as typhoid, HIV, malaria and more.

 

CLICK ON IMAGE TO SEE GIF ANIMATION

[johnl3d]

why am I suddenly itchy....thanks for posting wireframe

[robcat2075]

Everyone should definitely click thru on the image to see the dissolve effect in the GIF. That's quite instructive.

 

 

I was thinking of making a requirement of the contest to submit a wireframe along with the final render so we could all learn more from each other's efforts.