The Making of a Pirate Captain

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UK artist Ben Simonds has given some powerful insight into the making of his Pirate Captain.

Ben Simonds writes:

After learning so  much from last year’s blending life competition, I couldn’t wait to test out what I’d learned since in making my entry this year. It was tremendous fun to do and I had great feedback from the BlenderArtists community as I went along.

I thought that as the competition still has a few weeks left I’d do a bit of a making of/tutorial type blog post along with the final image, to hopefully give some tips to those still working on similar projects.

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    • http://www.blendernation.com Bart

      The largest graphic on our homepage ever! :-D

      That’s an amazing piece of work.

    • redbyte

      Muhahaha! And more to come :D

      It really is a fantastic piece of work.

    • Month3d

      Ooh interesting :) definitely gonna read that post. Character looks great too :D

    • horace

      looks great! the only thing i don’t like so much is the shading of the eyes.

    • torksu

      wow this character looks awesome! though I agree with Horace for his left eye, it kinda looks like glass but I like that for a pirate, yarrr!

    • Zecc
    • http://talesfromthecellar.com Mitch

      Great use of hair. Nice work!

    • Drabson

      Hi All, First of all Great Work, very very nice. Second I know this isn`t forum to give such questions but I`m now in blender, so I have smal question. Can Blender Internal Render Engine make a transparent shadowe recived from glass?

    • Mpu.Bater

      I really curious about how to make the cloth texture.
      too bad it didn’t explained.

      btw, awesome detail, man!

    • Anon

      @Drabson: No, not yet, as far as I know. You’ll have to use one of the many other free renderers, like Yafaray, POV-Ray, or LuxRender. (POV-Ray is now supported natively in Blender 2.5.)

    • tidbit
    • P4blo

      I know the glassy eyes are on purpose, but i feel unconfortable, when we do something it has to look like it is really on purpose, because it could get the look of a mistake.

      the skin, the textures and the hair are great. the eyes maybe witha sss would work

    • http://www.byronsdesigns.com ByronK

      Great article. Thanks for sharing your knowlege. It is a great reminder for me, about how much there is to learn about Blender. It is an amazing image.

    • Corniger

      Hey, looks different than in the blog! Much better!!! Now this definitely ist some jaw-dropping piece of work!

    • Drabson

      Thanks for help!

    • cejota

      uauuuu!! is an amazing hair! congratulations! really beatifull art work.

    • MeshWeaver

      hey, you finished it! :D looks awesome!

      the hair is amazing

    • Marbar

      This is incredible work. The eyes look like one is made of glass, and the other has a cataract… Although, it looks more like a real *waxwork* than an actual person, which is odd.