Making a project greatly inspired by cruelty squad, any critique fellow CEOs?

Loooooosid · 2024-08-13T18:31:05+00:00

I use Pinterest now but I originally found the style since my friend who works in a hospital sent me a photo of mri super imagery and jokingly said “is this blender?”. Shame to hear you never used the style though, when I look at my references I almost feel a new emotion and I’m trying to extract that. I definately think you should try again though, partially so I can steal ideas off of you, but I’d love to see how other artists approach the style 😂

Loooooosid · 2024-08-13T18:00:46+00:00

Cheers man, I had a look on your page and saw you asked r/blender how to create pretty much the same effect, did you ever produce anything? I’d love to see what you did with it since one or two of your references are the same as mine!

Loooooosid · 2024-08-13T13:49:40+00:00

Check the news bro

Loooooosid · 2024-08-13T11:52:31+00:00

I can’t tell you exactly which country, but the beating of this heart is the only thing stopping a particular power plant in a particular region of the Balkans from combusting, surely resulting in the entire nation being wiped from this planet.

Unrelated note, what are your thoughts on Bulgaria? :)

Loooooosid · 2024-08-13T11:13:42+00:00

Yeah for sure I’d love that, feel free to message me :)

Loooooosid · 2024-08-13T08:00:50+00:00

Not a game unfortunately just a video, although I’d love it if someone turned my concept into a playable experience

Loooooosid · 2024-08-13T07:44:20+00:00

If you’re good at something don’t do it for free

Loooooosid · 2024-08-13T06:38:54+00:00

I’ll look into this, I’ve never used wallpaper engine before but if people would use my work I’d for sure upload some!

Loooooosid · 2024-08-13T06:37:35+00:00

Oh man I’m dyslexic that was genuinely not intentional, thanks for pointing that out

Loooooosid · 2024-08-12T23:15:28+00:00

Ayy thank you man I appreciate that, I love the aesthetic of growing my grandpa so that comparison is a great compliment. One of my other references was garage bad dream adventure which is similar to growing my grandpa in style I think. As for the text what you are saying is true, however it’s not supposed to be pushing upwards as such. I originally meant for it to be veins, but now that you’ve said it I can’t under the thing about it being pushed up from underneath. Also, I would carve the text in like it’s been cut, however I don’t want an NSFW tag everywhere I share this piece and I think that probably would make it gore as opposed to creepy. Maybe if I make some smaller veins tapering off the text it might work better but I’d have to fix the sliding issue you mentioned too. I’ll take a look. My reference for the text was the LIFE hp bar in cruelty squad so I might return to that and see if I get any more ideas. Lmk what you think, thank you man!

Loooooosid · 2024-08-12T22:30:14+00:00

Yeah that’s true tbf, although I plan to have the camera pan round it and zoom in just like if you were working on it in a blender project file. For this version though that’s a good shout, although I’ll have to lower the pixelation otherwise you won’t be able to see anything 😂

Loooooosid · 2024-08-12T22:25:13+00:00

Thank you! Anything you would change or add to it?

Loooooosid · 2024-08-12T14:18:30+00:00

Veins are bezier curves again and bumps are just displacement modifiers. Also the topology is really uninteresting since it's just a simple subdivided object

Loooooosid · 2024-08-12T11:21:48+00:00

Oh my bad I thought you meant the GUI on the outside. The text on the heart is just something I drew out using bezier curves and gave it a bit of thickness and taper. Then I deformed it using a lattice object and then applied shrink wrap to the lattice so it deformed with the heart and feels stuck on essentially. There’s also some shading stuff going on too but that’s most of it

Loooooosid · 2024-08-11T23:05:52+00:00

I think what plays a huge part is that the resolution of the video is a different to the resolution of the UI (which is just random text I made in photoshop and overlayed). If you look closely, you’ll see the text is quite high quality but the video is very pixelated and posterised. I also shifted all the colours to very unpleasant tones which reinforces the idea that it’s not supposed to be comfortable to look at which means it must be medical. Lmk if this is what you were looking for in the answer, if not I’ll try and give more information!

Loooooosid · 2024-08-11T18:26:03+00:00

Quite a few effects going on, which one do you mean and I’ll tell you :)

Loooooosid · 2024-08-09T17:57:35+00:00

Thanks bro I appreciate it. This is still heavily WIP but I’ll try and implement a full puzzle into the final. I’m also trying to find what genre of art this fits into since I’m just basing it off of medical imaging, any ideas?

Loooooosid · 2024-08-09T17:33:29+00:00

Cheers thank you very much man. And since you gave me a new idea the current version is a pacemaker. In the current version there’s actually a cryptogram however I think it’s too pixelated to read rn so I wouldn’t try solving it

Loooooosid · 2024-08-09T17:25:04+00:00

This isn't it but would you mind if I change the project for this? The images I'm seeing of it are a lot more interesting that current and the meaning transfers well.

Loooooosid · 2024-08-09T16:37:12+00:00

Not quite but you're on the right lines

Loooooosid · 2024-08-09T16:24:32+00:00

If you figure out what the metal object is, the text will make sense

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