August Challenge - Cchristensen - Normal
 

Someone has to enter this and defend SimplyLightwave so off I go.

Coming from the land of Jeffrey Dahlmer and Ed Gein I think it is only fitting that my Mad Scientist be the kind of guy that likes to build things out of biological parts. We'll see how gruesome I can get this lab in the next 23 or so days. When I first read the contest description the first thing I thought of was the 'Eye Guy' in Blade Runner (below). My lab won't resemble his but it will be some good inspiration.

Eyeball anyone?

sounds really interesting cory!! and its really great to see someone finally joinging this months challenge :)

hehe very cool eye ball mate :)

good start

Digimatt - Someone has to put those Maya people in their place :D

The eye just needs a few veins for effect. I'll add those a bit later. Right now I need to make more parts...er I mean objects.

cool to see you entering Cory!!

*my eyes my eyes* :D

Ever get the feeling you are being watched?

I got the eye fully textured now. On the previous side shot the ball part was just procedures and a shader. I added an image map for veins and to darken around the outside of the Iris. I also darkened the edge of inside of the iris (Philip's suggestion). Redid the texturing on the optic nerve and a few other tweaks.

Mmmm... Almost good enough to eat. *shlurp*

What do you mean almost?

I think it looks yucky ;) in a good way hehe

Well... It needs some salt and balsamic vinegar to really add to the flavour - no self respecting eye connoseur would stoop so low as to eat one without. :D

And here we have a severed hand which is a staple item for your typical homocidal mad scientist. Interesting tatoo the victim has.

Ahh... 'Tis Kevin's hand. Finally he has seen the light and removed Maya from his life! :D

Awesome cory!! poor Kevin but he should have seen it coming ;)

great work there mate :)

Its looking really good thus far

Nope I haven't forgotten the challenge. Next things to do are to build some lab equipment and the work table. I whipped up a newspaper that sits under the hand.

Ughh... Looks just like the food served up by my local chippy :p

I got a few more items built up last night. Your standard things like test tubes, beakers, etc... Also built the work counter, walls, and floor so I can start putting the shot together.

I started building the thing below. Originally I was going to have just a couple of mean-looking eyes showing in the darkness but I kept going on the model and now I am not sure what I am going to do with it. It is a creature created by one of the experiments and now lives in a cage in the lab. I have purposely exagerated the features.

Todays update...

Coo... Reminds me of my cell (sorry workspace) back at home :D

Looking good man keep it up u got 8 more days :)
Good luck all though i havent seen much of other compeditors.
I only wish i was to the point where i new how to use lightwave better:confused:

great pictures...now lets see your work...
They are real aint they *looks at everyone*...

What?
Na, joking, nice work...and gud luck

You caught me Wraith. I have a large collection of severed hands and eyeballs that I keep around the house for personal reasons.

You as well then eh? And I just thought I was just wierd doing that sort of stuff :D

It's more common that you think. Maybe we should have a site called SimplySeveredParts or SimplyPsychotic?

Now THAT I like...

Mark, you must have this book then...

:D

Read it? I was the editor!

lol nice!!!!:D

I think we have that one at our local Staples :)

Wait a minute...... Something odd about that book........ HmMMmM

Times are tough, even for Mad Scientists - http://www.theonion.com/current_news1.html

I guess I better wrap this thing up over the weekend. Is that deadline local time or GMT?

OK. This is going to have to be my final image. IT is nowhere near where I wanted it to be by now but free time evasporated halfway through the month so I had to rush this together this morning. Basically what you have here is a lab with a shelf of testtubes and other lab-type supplies, a creature that is the result of some experimentation in a cage, a severed hand that is being worked with (knives are laying around next to it), a 'Dummies Guide to Mad Science' book, a lab journal, an eye being experimented with. It is hooked to the readout machine.

I have to call it done but I am not all that thrilled with it. Hey Kevin, how about making the competitions last 2 months ala CGTalk so we have a bit more time to tweak.

cool i like it
good job

good job Cory! I especially like the cut off hand, really disgusting ;)

Nice job Cory! Hey I see Chip inside the cage!