It's already Monday and I've had the ants in my pants since morning before I even woke up yet but the peeps on Artstation haven't announced the contest brief. Apparently it's because I live 8 hours in the future I'll have to stay calm until 9.00 pm my local time.
So, I have got time to finish the Inglourious Basterds fanart and share it here. Though, this is probably gonna be one of my works that won't make it to my portfolio. But anyway, here it is, the infamous "Gorlami" scene...
"Gorlami" scene final render
One thing I noticed only recently is how Lt. Raine gave away his disguise at his very first word in his conversation with Hans Landa by saying "Buon giorno" which means "Good morning" in English, while the scene happened during the evening.
Being a quirky villain, Instead of announcing "I know you're a spy! Surrender yourselves!" and apprehended the Basterds right away, Hans Landa decided to be like, now I know they are American spies, but I'm gonna have fun with them anyway, hehe. And went on with the "Gorlami" scene, which I find brilliant.
Realtime preview with EEVEE render engine
The dialogue piece written on the red background is the second idea for it. Initially, I would have put the dialogue in speech bubbles, which left the red background either too empty or with a big swastika symbol, which didn't look all that good for the scene.
The original title uses the font Egyptian Wide, but I used its free alternative instead--Fette Egyptienne--which can be found here. And no, I'm not Italian so I had to look it up to put the Italian version of that piece of dialogue.
Aldo de la Gorlami hi-poly model
Hans Landa hi-poly modelI'm pretty happy with the sculpts, but not as much with the texturing. I'm quite confused as to how can I practice texturing more often because texturing is 2 to 3 stages ahead of sculpting, not including the concept rating, which can be quite a long process before I get to that.
First iteration for the final renderInitially, I thought I'd make Aldo does that Italian approval hand gesture then everything suddenly Italian like the Basterds did in the movie, but that makes Aldo's knife won't have a spot in this rendered scene.
All in all, it turned out not as stylized as I imagined, but I'll carry on everything I have learnt from working on this fanart to the next ones.
But but butt! 🍑 For the next one, I hope I can write a story about the character again and let's see if my writing is improving or not. So when you do visit my post again, I suppose you might want to prepare for a headache.
Arrivederci~
Character Portrait | 3D Print-Ready Model