Ok, This is one of your strongest pieces so far. I'm liking how you're starting to move away from complete render to a piece that is more a combination of elements.
Strong points: Very good character placement with a strong light/dark curve. You've combined a number of elements that evoke a sense of action and 'in the moment' capture, ie. dust flying, smoke etc.
Areas to work on: Now this is just me remember, I'm just a guy with a bit more experience so I'll say what I would do if I were doing this.
1. Cap's left leg, I'd move it outward to match the right more. I think it would give a feeling of 'HEY!...' as he's looking over his shoulder at a new threat. In that vein perhaps a tad more splay on the arms as well.
2. Your lighting is good. Nice rim lighting and enough to give nice detail to his armor. I'd tone down the lens flare a bit, it's a little distracting as you want Cap to be the focus, I struggle with this all the time.
3. Now my nit-picking. Poser does a rotten job some times of polygon bending, in particular the red and white abdomen and bottom part of the scale armor. If you're using Photoshop I'd play with your 'Liquefy' tool in the filters. It's a AMAZINGLY useful item and fixes a lot of digital evil. Remember this is a suit, not skin. Cloth and armor don't follow the body like that. Look at Alex Ross's costumes, they're cloth, not Nano-skin spandex that heroes always wore. Same goes for the belt. Make copies of the layers and experiment until you're sick of Photoshop.
4. Your back ground is very nice, a little over burned in the stars, again, it's something I have to watch, it's easy to let it get away from you.
I remember a conversation In had with Larry Weinberg the creator of Poser, he developed it as a tool, not the do-all, end-all that people use it for. Poser the the core that I use but it's about 25-40% of the total core. You're moving in the right direction.
This is one of your best pieces so far. I've been watching your gallery and you've made some fine progress in a short time. You've got strong elements and a great layout. I'd suggest moving to a format that you could use for posters as opposed to the box format, the reason I suggest is that when you want to print these you start to lose area that makes up the whole image. If it's designed for the poster format you're golden.
I hope you find this helpful, keep going you're doing great.
Strong points: Very good character placement with a strong light/dark curve. You've combined a number of elements that evoke a sense of action and 'in the moment' capture, ie. dust flying, smoke etc.
Areas to work on: Now this is just me remember, I'm just a guy with a bit more experience so I'll say what I would do if I were doing this.
1. Cap's left leg, I'd move it outward to match the right more. I think it would give a feeling of 'HEY!...' as he's looking over his shoulder at a new threat. In that vein perhaps a tad more splay on the arms as well.
2. Your lighting is good. Nice rim lighting and enough to give nice detail to his armor. I'd tone down the lens flare a bit, it's a little distracting as you want Cap to be the focus, I struggle with this all the time.
3. Now my nit-picking. Poser does a rotten job some times of polygon bending, in particular the red and white abdomen and bottom part of the scale armor. If you're using Photoshop I'd play with your 'Liquefy' tool in the filters. It's a AMAZINGLY useful item and fixes a lot of digital evil. Remember this is a suit, not skin. Cloth and armor don't follow the body like that. Look at Alex Ross's costumes, they're cloth, not Nano-skin spandex that heroes always wore. Same goes for the belt. Make copies of the layers and experiment until you're sick of Photoshop.
4. Your back ground is very nice, a little over burned in the stars, again, it's something I have to watch, it's easy to let it get away from you.
I remember a conversation In had with Larry Weinberg the creator of Poser, he developed it as a tool, not the do-all, end-all that people use it for. Poser the the core that I use but it's about 25-40% of the total core. You're moving in the right direction.
This is one of your best pieces so far. I've been watching your gallery and you've made some fine progress in a short time. You've got strong elements and a great layout. I'd suggest moving to a format that you could use for posters as opposed to the box format, the reason I suggest is that when you want to print these you start to lose area that makes up the whole image. If it's designed for the poster format you're golden.
I hope you find this helpful, keep going you're doing great.
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