Splinterlands Art Contest! // Week 158 // The CURSED Memory // TWISTED JESTER

in Splinterlands3 years ago

Hello all,

Thank you so much for all the positive comments, votes, and Hive Rewards last week! (`・ω・´)ゞ
I am super grateful and amazed by this community feedback even I just join for ~1 weeks only.

This week, I present to you my new artwork:

The Cursed Memory of Twisted Jester.yoyu.gif

I know this scene look like a psychopath waving and smiling to a corpse he killed, right? However, if you read the lore, maybe it is another story!
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WHY TWISTED JESTER?

At first, I chose Twisted Jester just because he is a popular card I frequently used.
But after reading the lore I find out he is a super sad guy.
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Compare to other Beta little monster card, like Skeleton Assassin and Animated Corpse. Jester seems to have a story to tell, but without fully development.

That's why I recreate the scene of his memory.

Instead of a psychopath waving and smiling to a corpse he killed,
he is actually trapped inside the memory, crying and saying goodbye to his family.

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Feel sad for him, lol but hope you guys like it.

The Following is the long and boring process part:

  1. I always start with the head. Paint some guide line first.

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2.Then work on top of it with Crease tool.

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3.Use Tube tool to create Non-Geometric shape, It is the best tool in Nomad.
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4.Create a Flat box, use trim tool to cut the shape for the neck piece.
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5.Use Tube Tool again for the decoration, Mirror in both X and Z Axis to make it 4 pieces.
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6.Use tube tool to create the basic structure of leg, arm and finger.
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7.Pick color from the reference image and fill the mesh.
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8.Decide which material to use, this time I use Unit.
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  1. Add Post production effect like Bloom (Growing effect of eye and the light glob), Curvature (Outline) and AO (Shadow). Slowly adjust it until it look good.
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10.Making pose base on the card.
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11.After reading the lore I change my mind, I think he shouldn't look hyper or having much body movement. So I create a background for the scene, and make him steady.

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12.I import some Skull and Corpse model. They are free download assets on Sketchfab.

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13.Duplicate the model & paint color.
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14.BAM FINISH!
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15.Talk about why I start this. Every 3D art takes extremely long time and high focusing to finish.
At first my goal is to learn Nomad as I just buy iPad Pro recently, but the feedback from u guys are so SUPPORTIVE :D

I am planing to do 4 more in the future (1 summoner, 6 monsters in total)

Hope that the skill and quality will get better and better each time.

Thanks for reading.

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You are very good bro, it will be very difficult to do something better hahaha.

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To support your work, I also upvoted your post!

Dude, your art is so amazing that I can’t find words for it! What software you use, also, do you need a gamer pc or laptop to use the software effectively? Cheers, gcollects

Actually no PC is required, I use Ipad Pro 2021, Apple pen and Nomad(the software) to finish almost everything! The result look so good and that's why I am learning it now!

Thanks for sharing! - castleberry#6859

We are curious why you are using #c-c-c ... what does that topic-tag mean to you?

Sorry Im new to this, what is c-c-c mean?
I thought its under Splinterlands tag with this but seem like not.