reworked an old image (stone corpse) by retexturing it and adding the background and tenticle things. A couple textures in photoshop, everything else pure blender, no post-processing. Render time approx. 55 minutes on a 2.4Ghz processor. C&C very welcome, thanks.
< larger version at http://www.freewebs.com/arowe/holocaust.htm >
Holy crap Arowe!
This is probably the most artistic and original Blender piece I have ever seen! :o
Superb texturing and the lighting is perfect.
I have nothing else to say.
BgDM
awesome work indeed 
, Im doing the similar tenticle thing on the eagle war im working on.
That’s pretty freaking amazing. This piece can easily pass as a painting. Very cool!
NICE!
Tell me. How do you make those tentacle things? I hear its called ‘Paricle Duplicating’
I read about it here:
http://www.blender3d.org/cms/Particle_duplicators.443.0.html
I’ve been trying for ages to understand how to do it. But it never works.
Is there a tutorial I can follow to do this?
Thanks
looks like me in the morning and wauw what a great pic and thats what I can call a goood job right? no great job!
Awesome! You should be making movies with blender! 
Interesting textures you have there and very artistic pic.
BTW, in case some of you don’t know, Arowe has received 4 stars over at CG Talk for this image.
Congrats Arowe!
BgDM
Whoa!
Awesome :o
Stefano
Cool image Arowe!!! This is Art!!!
And seeing Blender artists presence in CGTalk growing up more and more is great too
(wow, 4 stars… this means award winning, is’nt that?)
Aargh! That’s right on the spot… sickening…
md01
Hmmm, I personally don’t like the image. The head model seems to be out of proportion - nose too small compared to the mouth and eyes too high up and too far forward. Topology looks a bit off too.
I’m afraid I don’t know enough about the symbolism relating to the holocaust so perhaps the wavy lines mean something I don’t understand. I do see the reference to decay but no more.
Don’t take my crit to heart. I’m sure that the people here and at CGTalk know far more about art than I do. Congratulations on the stars at CG talk, btw.
What I am impressed by is how you got the image to look like that without post-pro.
Oh man… This is amazing… :o And sickening…
Awesome Work!!!
Excellant work, great style
BgDM - thanks! That’s a real compliment, coming from you!
Rolando - thanks very much!
Skottish - thans
redbyte - thanks alot! Ok, basically here’s what I did for the tenticles: I duplicated the top half of the head to make the particle emitter, added a musgrave texture in the 8th texture channel(the one that affects particles) and set the particles to static, “step” to 1, and played around a bit with the other values. Then I added a lvery ow-poly sphere, set a size keyframe in frame 1, went ahead 100 frames and scaled it smaller and set another size keyframe. Then I parented the sphere to the emitter and clicked “dupliverts” on the emitter, and then I set the Life of the particle emitter to the same as the number of frames in the ipo for the sphere. Then I released the dupliverted objects(shift+ctrl+a) and joined them all as a single object and applied a displacement map to add some variety. Hope that helps!
Hykëp - thanks:)
toonist - lol no chance I’m making this into a movie. It took almost an hour to render this, so a whole animation will take ages :o
S68 - thanks!
TiZeta - thanks alot:) I am honoured by the 4 stars.
md01 - thanks!
osxrules - no worries, everyone has their opinion. It actually has nothing to do with the actual holocaust, really, the name just seemed to fit for me.
lemmy - thanks!
Kansas_15 - thanks alot!
you people are too kind:)
ouffff what a greate job… EXCELENT… I love this illustration.
Idea is cool.