July/Aug - Norm - asile
 

Well when I saw the theme I just had to.

This is my tribute to Dr. Hunter S. Thompson :bow:. If you don't know who hunter is, then you don't know "fear and loathing."

Hunter S took his life this year, well, because he lived longer than he ever wanted and with his bad hips he wasn't able to walk up the stairs to the bar, at a party in his honor. Hunter was in control, even in his death.

Hunter is one of the greatest american writers, and my hero, so this for him. 1937-2005. :beer:

I used a couple of reference photograph to model him. HV for the smoke from his cigarette. Nice bit of radiosity for the render, Overcast w/ point light.

Went w/ B&W because it just fits Hunter. And if you're saying, "that doesn't look like hunter" then you're thinking of johnny depp, who played him in the film. They look similar but not that similar.

Hope you enjoy and we can raise a glass to hunter s.

The fear relating to hunter, to not live life to the fullest as he did.

Early stages.

Wireframe shade in modeler.

This an untextured early render. Also no smoke, I made alot of changes to the face, added hair, and really edited the hat.

Then I changed the camera view a little and added the gonzo logo.

FINAL RENDER. Edited the hat (added a new diffuse map) and the face a little.

At least I think this is the final, I like to tweak.

Hope you like it.

My original sketch. I did this in photoshop. Looks like crap, but my hand drawing skills are actually worse than my mouse drawing skills. So I prefer photoshop.

Ok every time I lok at it I see more and more wrong with it. Imade some changes to the diffuse maps. And to the hypervoxel smoke, and the Hypervoxel Hair. I'll more than likely keep changing it.

Any suggestions?

I made a colour version. I adjusted a few things while I was at it. It was actually easy to make it colour because I used diffuse and bump maps for everything else.

Do you like the colour or the B&W better?

I know I need to change the hat a little on the B&W version, besides that.

Edited the hat's diffuse map again.

And edited the diffuse on the face.


Also added dissolve to the logo layer.