Blizzards Valentine Contest
 

I recently entered Blizzard's Valentine contest and to my surprise it was chosen as one of the winners and since it has been a long time since I posted anything on SM.

http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/3...urkyvu6.th.jpg
Applications used: Maya, Photoshop

Later all

long time no see on these forums dae

Nice piece of work :)
Have you got any progress pictures to show how you built it up?

Simon

unfortunatly didn't bother with this project, but I have some screen grabs of the different elements.

http://img161.imageshack.us/img161/1...ure1zn5.th.jpg
http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/7...ure2we8.th.jpg
http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/7...ure3em6.th.jpg
http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/6...ure4ta8.th.jpg
http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/9...ure5rh8.th.jpg

making it was easy as pie, illustrator shape for the heart, simple extrude, then I re-worked the faces in the center of the shape, ribbons are curves lofted then rebuilt, chocs are box modelled then smoothed,
Map was a plane with a non linear wave applied, floor is another plane with a little displacement map, tray for chocs has a displacement map
Choc box, has a textures running into a layered texture,
photos are planes with some bends, scene is being lighted from a HDRI image.

Then I plated with it in Photoshop, a few curves and level adjustments.

all in all it is pretty simple, I didn't have time for anything to taxing, had to do this during work hours :P.