We Are Venom! effektdmentality 2007/1/7 11:44 4806 8
I thought I'd start posting here for a bit as well as C2F, as the turnaround is faster here and the filesize limit is bigger.
Did this a while ago, back when the first shot of Topher-Venom surfaced. I took the publicity shot and isolated the head. Next, I built the torso from scratch, and franked the arms and legs from yet more bodybuilder pictures, making them considerable smaller and leaner than the original base photos of the bodybuilders. I thendesaturated the entire body minus the head and recolored it to a tealish black. I next made a small hexagonal pattern , shrunk it down, and replicated over the entire body, limb by limb to get the suit's texture. I next took a picture of Spidey's symbol, franked in the extra leg segments pointing inward, inversed the black symbol to make it white, and added it to the chest. The tendrils are all actually just one tendril that I made, replicated, and transformed/liquefied to change their shapes. The pool of symbiote is also just a blob of black and white that I transformed/liquefied. I then found some pictures of an irregular brick pattern, and used that to make the floor, wall, and window, adding some home decoration columns as well. The bells were made from a picture of an old church bell that I recolored and replicated, and the lightning was a pic I got from a weather photography site. All in all, a good 10 hours or so.
Ah yes Faster turn around and larger file size... two great tastes that taste great together. This is a really good one and a turning point image for your manipping if I remember correctly. Did you create the original this size? Time to start thinking big