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SteveArgyle — The Minions of Orcus
Published: 2009-06-29 20:12:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 29147; Favourites: 397; Downloads: 1288
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The minions of Orcus, goat-pig-god-thing of mean nastyness.You can't really tell, but they're actually just looking for a hug.
From the D&D 4e Monster Manual. Copyright Wizards of the Coast. Hugs copyright Hershey. Damn you, Hershey, for your delicious temptations.
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Finally, something that has "Minions" in the title and has nothing to do with the Despicable Me series!
I bless you with a thousand cakes.
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I love dungeons and dragons I love the game to ever played?!
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When you say a wicked burn and your younger brother b ein the back like, "yeah!"
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*tackle/glomps Dorsain from top right corner* HUUUUUGS!
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Would it be ok to share your pic on my Horror page?
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LOOOOOOOOVVVVVVVVEEEEEEE MMMMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
sorry that was just my immediate reaction
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thanks, im here all week.
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I remember this one from the MM, brilliant! I hate you!
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,oo, urrr this is painted ??? I totally thought its a 3d render. aye, my brains goes boom
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It's a little of both. I explain a bit of it in the above reply, so I'll spare everyone reading it again. I can post the preliminary renders if people want to see how the painting progresses from 3D mock-up to painting. Interested?
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yay 
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Holy crap guy! How did you get the face/crown-thing right, please tell me there's some 3d in there or i'm slitting my wrists on reply!
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Yes, there's some 3D. I put together some basic props for proportion, sculpted a face for the foreground guy in zBrush, and rendered the pillars in the background before I started painting.
I'm going for some of the realism and precision of 3D, without loosing the mood and feel that painting provides. Still working that out...
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Well it's clearly a good technique, with those jaw dropping results,do you just do a software render? I think you still managed to keep the painterly warmth so
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Yes, for this one I think I did a basic Maya Software render. Nowadays I use Mental Ray or Maxwell Renderer, and break things up into composite layers by light source, and add in some extra passes, like occlusion, reflection, and facing ratio. So that I can render it once, and dial in all the components without re-rendering.
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Wow,so jack of all trades eh?
Makes sense,did it take you long to come up with that method?
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Since most of the process is still painting, and I use 3D stuff in about every fourth or fifth painting, I don't spend a whole lot of time refining that part. But my background before illustrating full-time was in video games and pre-rendered cinematics. So it didn't take me too long to figure out a method that applied well to "underpainting."
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I thought that this work was done in 3d! congratulations!
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Some of it was. I sculpted a crotchety old-guy face in zBrush for the guy in the foreground, and some simple pillars for the background.
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lmao a hug XD
the details in this...wow just amazing, I can't believe how neat this is.
Great great job
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The face and especially the eyes in the front character are amazing. He's definitely not jut a cardboard cut-out villain he has depth, personality and emotion. There's inner strength there - as well as the need for a hug
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Thanks! I try and work some character into my... characters.
Your emoticon is particularly appropriate, as I'm painting a band of drow right now.
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Enjoy your time playing with the dark folk
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I bet they are really nice guys for real who like vintage jazz, a nice glass of tea and wowen rugs. It's the pink littly furry things we should look out for.
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That's right. At least with these guys, you know what their about. Those cute furry things are hiding something.
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I own the 4E MM, and I love this art! You made them sufficiently evil and creepy looking, despite their need for physical affection.
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To me, their need for physical affection makes them infinitely creepier...
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...You, sir, are made of win.
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it looks like when someo0ne took the pic with a camera the one in the back posed out while the other one in the foreground got that alan rickman "surely you jest" look on his face
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Oh well not so easy to spy that! lol Great work, esp love the skin on the front figure!
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Oh, only a hug? OK!
...wait... Invasion of the Body Snatchers monsters wanted hugs too...
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"Hugs copyright Hershey. Damn you, Hershey, for your delicious temptations." LOL! Mountain Dew and now this--has your sweet tooth been deprived lately? XD Anyway, awesome work here--the foreground guy's skin texture and bone jaw-guard are awesome.
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Yes, I do have a weakness for sugary awesomeness. I've gotten to be one of those chocolate-snobs who will seek out all the weird dark chocolates that come from rare cacao beans that only grow in the skulls of Tyrannosaurus' and stuff like that.
I try all the new Dew flavors. And while I like most of them, classic is still my favorite.
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