Hand model further along

At this stage i further modeled the hand buy using the cut tool to create the knuckles on the top of the hand. I then used the scale and poly edges to craft the bottom of the hand into a more life like hand shape ready to be smoothed and materialed.

begining stages of hand stamp.

This is the start of my final stamp '' the hand''. to get to this stage i began with a box with lenght segs: 4 width segs:3 and height segs:1. i then ectruded each finger out with the extrude modifer when i turned it into a editable poly. after this i created the thumb with the same process extruding the polygons out to the right lengths. i then used the editble polys to craft it into the right rough shape.

Finished blue bell flower ( 2nd stamp)

Here are my finished blue bell flower bunches. Im pleased with the way they came out although they might not be indentical to the reference image i still like them. i described the process of making them earlier, but for the finishing stages i just had to clone a few more flowers and place them around with more cloneed leaves using the clone option when you right click the mouse. I then descided to clone the whole thing and rotate it so the back of the plant could be seen in the render. To finish the render off i created to plains and then used the material editor to impose soil on each plane and use the bump map to create a better texture with the soft selection to create contours in the soil. I Then created another two plains and added the reference images in the background to finish the stamp off. :)

Finished tarantula (Stamp 1)

Here is my first finished stamp, my mighty tarantula. Final stages to giving it a fur skin were buy getting a image of a tarantula and croping part of it out in photoshop then going through the material process to get the correct texture as described in previous bloggs (wont bore you with it again). There it is all finised just simply created two plains and put a desert to the background and floor to top it off. :)

blur bell flower development

once the first flower was completed i just cloned it and pasted it in different places on the stem to created the bunch (scaling and rotating each to fit appropriatly).

Material on flower

This is the finished material for the blue bell flower. Firstly i made a purple gradient for the outside using photoshop and the gradient tool. then using the uvw map to position it correctly. Then for the outside material i used the same gradient on one layer and then created another layer and used the brush tool to create black spot and then on the blending options created a outer blur in white. This is the finished product not identical but close enough for me!

3rd stamp flower further along with leafs added.

Smoothed flower (not complete) with added leafs using the materials tutorial provided earlier in the course buy richard. Simply got the original image in photoshop (of the leaf) then followed the tutorial to cut and create a black and white duplicate of the image to use in the bump map editor. Opened the photoshop file and the original in the materials editor and tampered with it until the leaf looked good and had nice texture. Then used the soft selection to make the leaf curved and look more realistic.