Stoneman Grab render2

I wasn't happy with the pose on the last, so here it is again with some changes...

Stone men

Some renders of a few background objects from my thesis.

StoneMan Pose

Stone Man wip

The third character (and final) character in my thesis animation is the Stone man.
He is a statue brought to life by an ancient curse.

Here is my progress:











I was super happy with how the leaves came out.

I decided to not use an alpha channel for the leaves;instead, I modeled the shape using 24 quads on each leaf.

I used a normal map on the leaves, but I added some funky depth in random places on the map to give the appearance of volume.
The do kind of remind me of banana leaves though :\

While I was suposed to be sleeping...

I stayed up until 2:00 last night(or should that be "this morning"?) Starting and finishing a new scene. This will probably go into the surrealist inspired experimental animation I wrote of in my last post, but I'll write more on that later.

It was mostly made using Zbrush and photoshop, so I'm going to project the final image of the head, with all the grassy fibers into the texture maps, if I decide to animate it.