The Last Patriarch (Novel Cover)

Artwork Finished Projects
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I just self-published my novel THE LAST PATRIARCH at http://stores.lulu.com/mikhailpschalkand I created the cover with Blender. You may be familiar with my thread in the Focused Critique Sectionbut now that it’s finished I thought I’d post it here so here it is. I love to hear feedback of all kinds and feel free to purchase the book too if you want :wink:

(Click for full HD images)
Both took a good while to render and made heavy use of the compositing nodes. If anyone’s interested I can try and neaten up my Node Screen to get pics of the final setups. I would do it anyway but they are pretty complicated so it would take some time to make it look not like a confusing mess so just let me know if you are interested in seeing them and I’ll see what I can do. There’s an early version of the setup for the front cover on my original thread somewhere to start with.
Front:
http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/5208/novelcoverko0.th.jpg

Back:
http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/2168/backcoverwithstufflp7.th.jpg

If anyone wants more information on the book or the movie production my blog is located here too: http://patriarchproduction.blogspot.com
Feedback on the images themselves is always welcome (Particularly the back cover which i somewhat rushed)

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The only problem i see is its too cg looking. you should photoshop it to death so its more stylized and less 3d looking.

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very nice looking!

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-I suppose it would help if the sunlight was all pointing in the same direction lol. On one layer I have it coming in from the right, another on the left and the 3rd layer it comes in through the window straight toward the camera.

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Here is the back cover with ray-traced light (It just finished rendering now -It took 31 hours:spin:)
http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/715/backcoverwithraytracingpv6.th.png

The file is still open so I can make Node adjustments if anyone has any suggestions. Here’s a quick screencap of the Node Setup (I tried to organize it as best I could):
[http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/1079/backcovernodeslj0.th.jpg](http://img136.imageshack.us/my.php?image=backcovernodeslj0.jpg)