Movie Mashup - Studio Ghibli's Predator - CLP

[CLP]

well here i was thinkin i was gunna post a reply somewhat earlier lol but the e3 stuff was too interestin!

anyways just done more background stuff, made the closer trees a little mossy as well as adding a small outline around em like ghibli kinda do on stuff closer to foreground, probably need further work and those very distant trees need detailing but im gunna move to the foreground stuff for now.

probably another update later tonight or tmoz.

need to put in those white spirit things too

[xxxcubanxxx]

lovely piece so far, really coming along.

[gumby666]

Great progress!!!
Was thinking about this last night and thought you could even try adding some of the black 'demon hand' to Dutch, like the hero in Mononoke had. From memory it was kinda like a black scarring and there were times that it kinda throbbed with the demon blood.
Just an idea

[DaddyDoom]

That could actually work quite well!
Nice updates!

[CLP]

hey dudes, cool suggestion. i will most certainly incorporate the demon thingy onto dutch when i redo him, im gunna repose him to somethin a littlemore combative, maybe with a massive knife out. anyway thanks guys.

update includes foreground work, the rocks and tree the predator is standin on and the predator himself. i've added dreadlocks like someone suggested earlier. but i didnt wanna totally complete him yet in case someone has a cool idea for me to try out lol. the rock thing hes holdin in that small hand is like a fantasy rendition of the shoulder cannon.

well open to crits at this stage. especially as im off to bed, leavin time for ppl to crit before i try to finish tmoz. probably wont lol.

[DaddyDoom]

Loving the light!

[chunkymunky]

This is looking so good, reminds me of Manga/Anime style it looks so profressional too, excellent linework and grogeous colouring so far and that new light is superb

[CLP]

Thanks for the comments guys. I think I'm pretty much done with the main parts of the scene. The big thing for me is that I need to create the feeling motion in the scene as if it's a cel from the production of such a film.

If anyone's got any ideas about how to do that I'd appreciate it. I tried doing the foreground vege with a bit of focal blur [not shown here] but I'm not sure if thats how they do it in the film.

Other suggestions about content would also be welcome. Things like is the predator predator-like enough. I'm not sure if he should wear armor as I want him to reflect the spirit-like quality of ghibli beasts.

[Tarik2d]

mate this is brill, the hand coming out the top works nice

[wargrafix]

I love it!!!!!!
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[gumby666]

Freakn ace!!!
Really love it and definitely capturing the Ghibli feel!

Couple of things you could consider.
Maybe put a camouflage pattern on Dutch's pants?
Have you tried removing the demon pattern from his chest?
As it is now it kinda makes the chest lose definition.
If you kept it to only on the arm the chest may stand out more.

The other thing is a bit stupid but I'll mention it anyway.
Would it work better if the whole scene was flipped horizontally?
Just that if you did this then Dutch would be holding the knife in his right hand and have the demon infection on his left as per the Mononoke movie.
Pretty anal I know so feel free to disregard that

Keep up the wicked work!!

[chunkymunky]

I'm not sure if motion blur would ruin the scene....how have your tests been? Too much of an effect or is it simply not working or not?

[CLP]

Thanks dudes

@gumby666: i'm definitely gunna take some of what you said there and add it. I kinda wanted to do the camo pants earlier but i was a little afraid it wouldn't work as i watched a couple of old ghibli films and they don't tend to do textures like that. Think il put it in though since someone other than myself has suggested it.

And i definitely agree about the mark on the arm extending too far since i thought his chest looke like his back or somethin a couple of times i looked at the pic with fresh eyes.

As for your final suggestion...yeh pretty anal but i'v yet to add the little white spirit dudes, hopefully il get those in soon.

@chunkymunky: I've tried some gaussian blur on the closest layer of veg, those dark grass bits and leaves but it doesnt do a great deal for the pic. I'm thinking of trying some kind of focal blur with the distant background stuff but that compromises detail. And as for motion blur, I dont think they really did that in the films, least not an awful lot and especially not on the characters.

Now i was gunna try to complete the scene tonight but i got distracted by games lol so i think il try tmoz.

[gumby666]

Me again
Just one final thought (if I put as much attention into my own submission I might actually get something finished haha!) but you may have already contemplated this.
Was thinking you could put the triangle predator targeting pattern onto the stone in his hand and then with the glow you've got it could show up on Dutch's chest. Like it does in the Predator movies before limbs get blown off.
As I said just a thought!

Can't wait to see the final!!

Hope to get a chance to do some more work on mine tonight but I'm off on my honeymoon on Friday morning so may be struggling to finish.

[eicronie]

great!