TRANSFORMED by Mark@poser

Poser • Portraits • posted on Oct 29, 2011

Open full image in new tab Zoom on image

Hover over top left image to zoom.
Click anywhere to exit.

Members remain the original copyright holder in all their materials here at Renderosity. Use of any of their material inconsistent with the terms and conditions set forth is prohibited and is considered an infringement of the copyrights of the respective holders unless specially stated otherwise.

Description

I always wanted to do a tribute to Jack Pierce (the make-up man) and Boris Karloff (the actor) from the original 1931 film Frankenstein. The two men collaborated a great deal to get the look of the monster that we still today associate with Mary Shelley's book. I like to imagine what it must have been like to sit in the audience and see the face of the monster emerge from the shadows for the first time. While tame by today's standards, the monster's appearance back them must have been shocking. Jack Pierce TRANSFORMED a man into something much more. Karloff's subtle acting, in an age when over-acting was the norm, saves the picture and made the monster so much more frightening. The figure used here was V4, not M4. I used most of my own morphs to change her into the monster. Another TRANSFORMation if you will. I tried to get the look of Karloff in the face, but still need to do some more work. I started on this a few weeks back and told myself I would publish a picture by Halloween as a work in progress. Maybe I'll work on her some more next year. I did do some post work on the image. I wanted to give credit to Blacksmith3D's Morph program. This program cost me about $25 but allows marvelous morphs to be made provided the original mesh is fine enough to allow it. I would call it a poor man's ZBrush for the way it allows one carve and work the surfaces. Thanks

Comments (20)

)

flaviok

12:54PM | Sat, 29 October 2011

Magnificos morphs e trabalho, excelente, aplausos (5)

)

ToxicWolf

1:02PM | Sat, 29 October 2011

Really well done!

)

fls13

1:02PM | Sat, 29 October 2011

Whoa nice!

)

drag

1:06PM | Sat, 29 October 2011

We just watched the movie last week and this is an awesome "transformation".

)

Tholian

1:19PM | Sat, 29 October 2011

Excellent tribute. You seem to do it a great deal of justice.

)

artistheat

1:28PM | Sat, 29 October 2011

Totally Cool,Excellent Work

)

fly028

2:47PM | Sat, 29 October 2011

exceptional! what a fantastic work!

)

odile

3:46PM | Sat, 29 October 2011

Excellent morphing! Bravo!

)

Renderholic

5:24PM | Sat, 29 October 2011

Excellent modeling and image! Bravo!

)

Hubert

5:27PM | Sat, 29 October 2011

Impressive!!

)

Cimaira

6:20PM | Sat, 29 October 2011

This is amazing! I'd have never known it was V4, if you had said so. An excellent tribute to these two fine artist!

)

shamstar

6:55PM | Sat, 29 October 2011

Outstanding work. Great coloring.

)

restif

8:34PM | Sat, 29 October 2011

Fantastic Job! Looks perfect, likely the best I've seen!

)

anitalee

12:40AM | Sun, 30 October 2011

Excellent!!

)

mgtcs

12:44AM | Sun, 30 October 2011

Splendid character here, fine render! Congratulations!

)

PhilW

7:02AM | Sun, 30 October 2011

Wonderful character in the face - terrific sculpting work!

)

densa

3:49PM | Sun, 30 October 2011

fantastic

)

flavia49

5:55PM | Sun, 30 October 2011

amazing work

)

cvrad

2:00PM | Mon, 31 October 2011

excellent work I'm a big fan of the 30's monster era, Boris Karloff as Frankensteine., Lonne channey the Warewolf, and Bela Lugossi as Dracula. excellent likeness and image well done

)