# Bloody Mary the Mirror Witch- Happy Halloween! **URL:** \ **Category:** Finished Projects\ **Tags:** hair, modeling, blender-29, characters, texturing\ **Created:** [October 28, 2020, 12:51pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/bloody-mary-the-mirror-witch-happy-halloween/1261940 "2020-10-28T12:51:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mattbag3D](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/mattbag3d/32/712451_2.png) [@mattbag3D](https://blenderartists.org/u/mattbag3D)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 12:51pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/bloody-mary-the-mirror-witch-happy-halloween/1261940/1 "2020-10-28T12:51:23Z")
![BloodyMary](https://blenderartists.org/uploads/default/original/4X/f/d/d/fdd2eef34722d4b66965d0ec85c248a221482ac7.jpeg) Don’t look in her eyes! ![BloodyMaryBase](https://blenderartists.org/uploads/default/original/4X/5/5/b/55b1e418915bd677e8ccc9d081eb7417fef7f09f.jpeg) Blender Render ![Mary_Wire](https://blenderartists.org/uploads/default/original/4X/c/0/f/c0fb12517543e19015ac366018211ea0964729a0.jpeg) Wireframe and Hair Particles You can read more about the creation of the Bloody Mary image in this ‘Behind the Scenes’ article on BlenderNation: > **[Behind the Scenes: Bloody Mary the Mirror Witch](https://www.blendernation.com/2020/12/07/behind-the-scenes-bloody-mary-the-mirror-witch/)** > > My name is Matt Bagshaw and I’m a British guy living in a small town in Sweden. I worked for many years in the UK as a 3D artist and animator in the games industry, predominantly for Eidos and Sony. I made this Hallow-weird Spooky image of Bloody Mary for an Instagram challenge called ‘Storytober’ hosted by @artbysteffani. All done in Blender apart from the final colour tweaks, some film grain and vignette. I used the project as a chance to get up to speed with a few aspects of Blender - still a lot to learn but my knowledge of the hair system and creating eyebrows was given a massive boost following @Nazar_Noschenko1 's tutorials on YouTube- so huge thanks to you Nazar! The skin I made is fully procedural and currently a massive spiderweb of confusing nodes but definitely something I want to develop a bit more to allow me to quickly texture characters ranging from undead/creatures to humans. Shine, veins, freckles, wrinkles, subsurface and spottiness are controlled with vertex painting- I wanted to see how much I could do with a very simple cartoon base mesh without additional hires sculpting and normal maps, but these could definitely be used to add more detail and definition. [Bloody Mary](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Mary_(folklore)) or the Mirror Witch is a spirit said to appear if you stare into a mirror and say her name 13 times- She might reveal your future or more likely damn your soul to eternal suffering -so probably best to steer clear! Thanks for taking a look- hope every one has a spooky and fun Halloween! ---
**Author:** ![Travisty](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/travisty/32/755139_2.png) [@Travisty](https://blenderartists.org/u/Travisty)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 1:11pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/bloody-mary-the-mirror-witch-happy-halloween/1261940/2 "2020-10-28T13:11:49Z")
Awesome character! 💯 Great job on everything!! 👍 ---
**Author:** ![mattbag3D](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/mattbag3d/32/712451_2.png) [@mattbag3D](https://blenderartists.org/u/mattbag3D)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 2:29pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/bloody-mary-the-mirror-witch-happy-halloween/1261940/3 "2020-10-28T14:29:35Z")
Thanks Travis! Glad you like it 😀 This was something a bit different for me- I learned a lot in the process 👍 ---
**Author:** ![bartv](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/bartv/32/1477233_2.png) [@bartv](https://blenderartists.org/u/bartv)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2020, 1:08pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/bloody-mary-the-mirror-witch-happy-halloween/1261940/4 "2020-10-30T13:08:29Z")
I featured you on BlenderNation, have a great weekend! > **[Best of Blender Artists: 2020, week 44](https://www.blendernation.com/2020/10/30/best-of-blender-artists-2020-week-44/)** > > Every week, hundreds of artists share their work on the Blender Artists forum. I'm putting some of the best work in the spotlight in a weekly post here on BlenderNation. Lois van Baarle… ---
**Author:** ![mattbag3D](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/mattbag3d/32/712451_2.png) [@mattbag3D](https://blenderartists.org/u/mattbag3D)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2020, 2:38pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/bloody-mary-the-mirror-witch-happy-halloween/1261940/5 "2020-10-30T14:38:33Z")
That’s Fantastic news- Thanks Bart! Hope you have a great weekend too! 😀 👍 ---
**Author:** ![MichaelColina](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/michaelcolina/32/1417045_2.png) [@MichaelColina](https://blenderartists.org/u/MichaelColina)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2020, 10:08pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/bloody-mary-the-mirror-witch-happy-halloween/1261940/6 "2020-12-07T22:08:07Z")
hello can you share you node setup from the blendernation images but in closeups please? the blendernation ones are too much small to scroll in… ---
**Author:** ![mattbag3D](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/mattbag3d/32/712451_2.png) [@mattbag3D](https://blenderartists.org/u/mattbag3D)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2020, 9:23am UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/bloody-mary-the-mirror-witch-happy-halloween/1261940/7 "2020-12-08T09:23:26Z")
Hi Michael, Here’s a bigger version I hope it’s readable! I don’t know how much use it’ll be- the Shader is still a work in progress and not optimized or properly laid out yet but here it is so far… ![ShadeLayoutBig](https://blenderartists.org/uploads/default/original/4X/c/f/a/cfacf03d9ddc85f920778b30a0c971b5e05e794e.jpeg)