Ambush! - created by nudanke

Votes: 285

Rank: 2/7

Score: 61.1%

9547 views

An assassin was waiting for their victim, only to have the tables turned on them...

This is an update to my previous entry and I changed the textures and set up a basic scene. The texture for the floor is from CGTextures (http://www.cgtextures.com/texview.php?id=29652&PHPSESSID=c94f471a12a3971ee283989e2708cdf9) and generated a bump map in photoshop. The arm is from an old model I made and the texture on it a hand-painted projection. I broke the scene up a bit, rendered out 6 passes, and comped it in Nuke to have a little more control over color and DoF. Tools Used: Maya 2009, Photoshop, Mudbox, Nuke, and rendered with mental ray. (2 years and 229 days ago)

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13 Comments

Elvish, Dagger

ponti55 says:

Very nice! It looks great! Reply »

(2 years and 229 days ago)

billyboy says:

Yes, I like it ! Wait impatient the Mudbox steps. Reply »

(2 years and 229 days ago)

dka120 says:

Nice modeling! With a background, it would look even better. The only suggestion I can come up with is that the bump texture should bee less appearing on the blade (only seen in high res) and more on the on the rest of the parts. But thats just my opinion. Good joob! Reply »

(2 years and 229 days ago)

author says:

Haha..yes. I was just looking at the hi-res and thinking...that bump is too strong. The texture on the handle isn't quite as nice as the blade imo (I got tired and impatient). I'll put it in a scene as well...I just wanted to get something up here before I went to bed. Reply »

(2 years and 229 days ago)

billyboy says:

Oh no, sorry, with the new angle you lost 90% from the beauty of this sword.The bump map from the blade which look like an unfinished metal in previous version look now like a stone. And the fangs look made from plastic now. Just an opinion. Reply »

(2 years and 228 days ago)

author says:

I actually agree with you somewhat. I'm not quite as happy with the way the sword looks in this as compared to my previous upload but I feel this is more of a finished piece and unfortunately I can't put any more time into this at the moment. I appreciate the critiques as always and hopefully my next attempt will turn out better. Reply »

(2 years and 228 days ago)

Missy says:

I did prefer this without the hand, however, i do like this image. Reply »

(2 years and 228 days ago)

downoffthedragon says:

Swordswoman wearing red nail polish. Cool. Reply »

(2 years and 227 days ago)

freejay says:

Looks great Reply »

(2 years and 225 days ago)

Lelaina says:

Congrats for your second place, nudanke! Reply »

(2 years and 225 days ago)

RichieMB says:

Congratulations for 2nd Reply »

(2 years and 225 days ago)

nasirkhan says:

Congrats! Reply »

(2 years and 225 days ago)

author says:

Thanks! Reply »

(2 years and 224 days ago)

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