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This is a character I've made for a school project where we had to build a carrousel. So I decided I was going to make a troll-powered carrousel using inspiration from The Lord of the Rings designs. The normal map was made in photoshop and the texture was entirely hand painted.


To see the diffuse texture step-by-step progression, please visit:
http://www.artbydvl.com/stuff/tutorial-unwrap/progress.swf (16mb)


HD 720p video presentation:
http://www.artbydvl.com/3d/Troll-HD-720p.wmv (50mb)]]> Thu, 28 Jun 2007 03:08:38 +0000 http://danvl.cgsociety.org/gallery/327445

"Only when all light has vanished can the moon reveal the path out of darkness"
This is a picture I've done for a personal project that will be presented at school. I've done it to practice Matte Painting as well as to refine my hand painting skills. Though I had to move on and cut short because of a lack of time, I'm still pretty satisfied with the results.
On the technical side, it contains few photographic elements: only the foreground cliff and parts of the clouds (which have been modified A LOT) are based off photos. Original size is 4000x2288px.
I've submitted it to EXPOSE 4, though I'm not having too much expectations on this
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I've been working on this character since quite a while now, I made it to practice my modeling/texturing skills and I must say I really feel like I've improved even though the work isn't perfect. I could've worked on it forever, detailing again and again but got tired at some point and felt like moving on to some other project.
Any kind of comments are most welcome as they'll help me improve a lot and figure out what I need to work on!
Thanks a lot!

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