Author Topic: Frankenstein (FINISHED! june 29, 2005) (Read 13052 times)

Felsir · « **on:** March 31, 2005, 01:34:47 am »

I'm working on two projects now... the DDR cab (Winxclub theme) and a project on request. A Frankenstein cabinet. I'm making this one for someone else and I have permission to put a WIP thread here so all can enjoy

tbombaci · « **Reply #1 on:** March 31, 2005, 09:12:36 am »

Do you have any pics or posts regarding the DDR cabinet?

-Tom

Felsir · « **Reply #2 on:** March 31, 2005, 09:29:10 am »

Quote from: tbombaci on March 31, 2005, 09:12:36 am

Do you have any pics or posts regarding the DDR cabinet?

For the artwork: not yet, it will be another thread in this part of the forum.
For the cab itself, see this thread

Pixelhugger · « **Reply #3 on:** April 01, 2005, 03:27:55 am »

Love the green lips and eyes. Nice work. This'll be fun to see come together.

Felsir · « **Reply #4 on:** April 05, 2005, 05:26:57 am »

I found much better source material (3 times the details of my current source) so I'm redrawing various parts with this new "insight"

Felsir · « **Reply #5 on:** April 06, 2005, 06:48:48 am »

So, reworked the face. Yep, things look quite different now I have a better source

... yes, both images are part of the same artwork ...

Felsir · « **Reply #6 on:** April 07, 2005, 02:35:53 am »

Had an hour or two of spare time:

Felsir · « **Reply #7 on:** April 11, 2005, 07:07:52 am »

Another update. I also traced the outline of the characters to indicate the size and a rough estimate of the progress.
Comments or questions are welcome

walls83 · « **Reply #8 on:** April 11, 2005, 09:19:13 am »

Comments or questions are welcome

I feel like a broken record. Superb as always. Looks really good.

Felsir · « **Reply #9 on:** April 12, 2005, 07:11:58 am »

Thanks Walls83!

Another update:

BobbyG66 · « **Reply #10 on:** April 12, 2005, 11:17:08 am »

Looks great, like the way it's detailed on top and fades to black at the bottom.

...does she have two moles?

oldsage · « **Reply #11 on:** April 12, 2005, 11:56:40 am »

Quote from: BobbyG66 on April 12, 2005, 11:17:08 am

Looks great, like the way it's detailed on top and fades to black at the bottom.

...does she have two moles?

That was intentional? I just figured he didn't finish the black parts yet... (after all, this WIP)

Felsir · « **Reply #12 on:** April 14, 2005, 06:58:15 am »

and another update...

@BobbyG66: I'm not sure what you mean by 'mole' (English is not my native tongue) but if you mean the spots (like Cindy Crawford has) - yes

Oldsage is correct: it's a WIP and I traced the black outline to indicate the % of work done. Sort of a visual reference to what the total image size will be. So the black part represents the "to-do" part of the image.

BobbyG66 · « **Reply #13 on:** April 14, 2005, 10:00:24 am »

Quote from: Felsir on April 14, 2005, 06:58:15 am

@BobbyG66: I'm not sure what you mean by 'mole' (English is not my native tongue) but if you mean the spots (like Cindy Crawford has) - yes

Yes, good to see that Cindy Crawford translates to all languages...

My bad on the artwork, can't wait to see it finished!

Bones · « **Reply #14 on:** April 14, 2005, 10:13:46 am »

That big ugly dude is going to look sensational at the rate your are going!

Amazing work...

oldsage · « **Reply #15 on:** April 14, 2005, 01:26:17 pm »

Quote from: BrokenBones1 on April 14, 2005, 10:13:46 am

That big ugly dude is going to look sensational at the rate your are going!

Amazing work...

That's a weird sentence... Kind of a contrast, don't ya think...?

I agree though, that thing will look amazing... Who's the lucky bastard that's getting the Frankenstein cab?

Pixelhugger · « **Reply #16 on:** April 15, 2005, 02:16:01 pm »

Holy crap Felsir! You're giving me a huge inferiority complex. I'm just in awe. That is spectacular.

AceTKK · « **Reply #17 on:** April 15, 2005, 03:10:52 pm »

I really, really don't mean to be a jerk and I'm not trying to hurt anybody's feelings, but what exactly is so great about his work? I agree that it's an awesome image, but he's just tracing someone else's drawing right? That's not particularly difficult to do, just time consumning. Please help me understand why this is so spectacular.

-Ace-

Pixelhugger · « **Reply #18 on:** April 15, 2005, 05:00:48 pm »

It's amazing for several reasons.

1) Artwork like this is meant to print out at a very large size. So the traced detail has to be extremely accurate. Unfortunately the source material is generally very small.. a matter of a few inches across. Scanning the material at a high resolution doesn't help after a certain point as all you are doing is enlarging the dot pattern of the printout which doesn't help define anything for tracing. So there is generally quite a bit of interpretation that you've got to do. That may not sound significant, but I've spent PLENTY of time pencil sketching from J Scott Campbell's artwork (this image's original artist) and I'm always amazed at how different the girls look with even the slightest variation in line curvature and even line thickness. This is especially true in the small regions like the eyes and lips... which are likely no more than a fraction of an inch on the original. So reason #1 is that the "tracing" itself can be interpretive and consequently hard.

2) Vectorizing precise detail is easier seen than done. To call it tracing is a bit of an over-simplification.

nullb0y · « **Reply #19 on:** April 17, 2005, 11:39:37 am »

gah looks like i gotta change the name of my frankenmame cabinet now....

Felsir · « **Reply #20 on:** April 18, 2005, 03:20:08 am »

@Pixelhugger: thanks for the kind words! I can only say that I'm also very, very impressed by the Mission Control cab design -and building- and I watch that thread with equal awe! Everyone can create a cab as well that everyone can pick some image to slap on the sides, but to create something (be it cab or art) with so many subtle layers is a whole different thing.

@oldsage : one of my friends wanted a cab too, he gave some indications on what kind of cab he wanted, so we discussed some images. I got sorta 'carte-blanche' in cab design. Since I will see the cabinet quite a lot I want it to be pretty to look at

Probably no update today, I've been out this weekend so I had no time to vectorise anything. Oh well, maybe later today during lunch break

Felsir · « **Reply #21 on:** April 19, 2005, 07:27:49 am »

Sort of an update... I forgot to take my USB memorystick with me, so I couldn't work on Frankenstein & Doc. So I started work on the marquee.

The bakcground will be altered with stone slabs, another gargoyle will be added to the right and the gargoyles will have rings in their mouths. So there is also a lot of work to be done here... (ppfft! ...and I didn't even start on the CP, wich has images of rats on it...)

Felsir · « **Reply #22 on:** April 20, 2005, 06:55:18 am »

Since I figured that the marquee was 75% done, I decided to complete that one first: both the gargoyles are finished, started work on the background.

The attached image is a bit distorted in the forum. Click the file to see it in a better quality (~ 850x220)

Felsir · « **Reply #23 on:** April 22, 2005, 07:16:39 am »

Finished the marquee. I'm still fiddling with shading and hilighting. I'm going to continue with the main picture now, and see if the marquee needs tweaking later. Sometimes it helps to "step away" from it, to come back to it later.
Comments on the finished marquee are appreciated.

again, click the link for a better quality version.

Bones · « **Reply #24 on:** April 23, 2005, 10:52:47 am »

I really like the brickwork. It completes it well.

SNAAKE · « **Reply #25 on:** April 23, 2005, 04:35:20 pm »

One word,HOT !

walls83 · « **Reply #26 on:** April 23, 2005, 06:39:04 pm »

**shoots Paris Hilton**

Felsir · « **Reply #27 on:** April 25, 2005, 07:11:43 am »

Quote from: walls83 on April 23, 2005, 06:39:04 pm

Felsir you gots mad scientist skills

*throws back his head and clackles with insane glee* "and for my next project I need a purple and a green tentacle ...

Back to vectorising the main art. Added more detail to the monster's sweater, finished doctor's top.

SNAAKE · « **Reply #28 on:** April 25, 2005, 06:30:35 pm »

You might consider changing the color of her lipstick to purple.Green looks like kinda weird

Everything else looks great..all hail Felsir !

Felsir · « **Reply #29 on:** April 28, 2005, 03:10:52 am »

Started work on the monster's arm:

Goz · « **Reply #30 on:** April 28, 2005, 03:54:36 am »

I've said it before, but you do damn fine work.

-Goz

elvis · « **Reply #31 on:** April 29, 2005, 04:54:13 am »

If I could draw the ladies like that, I wouldn't go to work.

I'd stay at home... drawing ladies like that...

Veinman · « **Reply #32 on:** April 29, 2005, 08:02:27 am »

That's looking great! You have a LOT of patience.

Felsir · « **Reply #33 on:** May 02, 2005, 06:52:21 am »

Completed the monster's arm, started work on the monster's pants.
As a result from the poll, the doctor has purple lipstick (yeah!

)

DreamWeb · « **Reply #34 on:** May 02, 2005, 11:05:02 pm »

Awesome AWESOME! Are you going to make this vector available to download by any chance?

d.

Pixelhugger · « **Reply #35 on:** May 04, 2005, 12:13:31 am »

WOW!! Man, I'm just consistently amazed by your work Felsir. I love the mechanical detail in the arm. Is that what you lost in your spontaneous reboot a few days back?

If so I'd say that's quite a voordeel for your nadeel!

Just beautiful.

Felsir · « **Reply #36 on:** May 04, 2005, 02:30:47 am »

@Dreamweb: sorry, not available for download. I create this artwork for someone who pays for it.

@PixelHugger: Yep, I had to redo the arm, the nadeel indeed turned to a big voordeel!

(next goal for this board: teach everyone some dutch words to use here

)

pgielen · « **Reply #37 on:** May 04, 2005, 03:28:50 am »

Duch lesson part 1

Dit ziet er weer geweldig uit.

translation: this looks awesome

Felsir · « **Reply #38 on:** May 09, 2005, 03:09:54 am »

Another update. Also I changed a little details in the Doktor's face and tweaked some colour-tones.

The image size has exceeded the forum's settings (last posted image too I noticed) so click the link under the image for a non-distorted version.

DemonBrew · « **Reply #39 on:** May 09, 2005, 11:39:30 am »

1) Where did you find source pics for this?
2) What software are you using to vectorize?

edit: I think I found my own answer to #2. I downloaded Frostillicus's tutorial on Illustrator, that helped. Is that what you're using?

On a side note, what's the going rate for artwork requests like this?


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