SoB or Summer of Blender, my personal hard-core blender course for this summer. Focuses on boosting my blender skills. topics are: Organic Modeling, Texturing & Materials, Lighting, BWC, Animation…
So it is 1 July and my Summer of Blender has begun.
Topic: Organic Modeling. Concept: “Winner” This should be a fun still-image. Everybody alive is a winner, everybody once was a sperm-cell and was the first in the race for the big egg.
This image will show a sperm cell that is far ahead of the race, and will likely win.
The sperm cell should have a sort of pixar looking facial expression which shows that he is confident to win this race, and have a mean grin (but he must not look angry!)
something much like this => :evilgrin:
So far I have modeled the sperm-cell itself, but as expected I have some problems with the facial expression.
He looks To angry!
I would like to make him seem more confident than angry… Any tips? (he should be more happy looking, he will after all win the race)
Thanks already go out to The M.h.p.e. I learned a lot from his “poor pluto” render and .blend file about expression.
It should not be too hard- make inner corners of eyes more round- should work. You got control vertices just in right plac so it will be really- really simple modification I guess. Nice idea btw
Thnx for the tip! it worked quite well.
I did some more research on facial expression.
This is what i have for the face at this moment:
Critics are still welcome, it is far from finished
I also started working on the scenery a bit:
The bumps and rings should make the scene look interesting.
note: I realized that actually the whole scene is “under water” (kind off :p) so i will probably ad some “dirt” in the scene to make it a bit un pure.
Like the white fussy dirt you can see here: http://www.travel-images.com/egypt-u42.jpg
Hahaha, the background is looking good with the fading to darkness. Also, his expression reminds me of cockmongler (this guy) which is a good thing as it makes me laugh.
The fading to dark is just a little camera tweaking and some mist (and the world color is set to black).
made some new adjustments:
changed the position of the tail so it would look more interesting.
changed the lighting color a bit.
added more competitors in the back.
added more white fussy dust…
Come on! I want some last critics. this is almost ready for Finished Projects.
Very good job! Maybe turn on the SSS feature for the sperm and background… Also, it may be better if the other
sperms in the background didn’t have that much of a spiral “tail”…
Another thing… a little transparancy (very subtle though) is maybe also a good thing to add?
I think you should still not give it up to put it in the finshed forum though… also work on using some DOF here couldl greatly enhance things… but as always don’t overdo things. (not too much DOF)
I think Pixar should really take this idea for their next movie:D
You could look at come human sperm cells for correction of the body (it is humman sperm cell right?). The tail is much bigger according to the head.
The face is too flat and lacks detail - you could model the eyelids.
To make a contrast with the environment make the cells white. You may give some transparency to the tails - cells are transparent in real world.
To make him happy open his mouth (I mean move the jaw down) and lift the eybrows up.
Finaly you could give an angry expression to the closest sperm cell at the back.
(and the world color is set to black).
me too)
