Cupid's Heart Grenade

[jujubee]

[Mark David]

fantastic idea jujube, and nice lighting and modeling too man.

Congrats mate

did u use a dome? looks very very cool

mark

[Syclone1]

LOL I like it!! nice job

-dave

[RErender]

That pretty much sums up love for me, except maybe take the pin out :P

[Geddart]

Nice one jujubee! There's definately some truth in that image.

[Trapezium]

Isn't there a new pop music album with that on it

--Jon

[jujubee]

Thanks guys for the compliments. It's all modelling as I'm not the best texture map/displacement person. Lighting is pure HDR and nothing else. I didn't even have to post-process it.

@ trapezium - are you screwing with my head? what's the album?

[jujubee]

Well sorry Trapezium- I just did a google for 'heart grenade' because your comment was really bothering me - it appears the group Green Day indeed has a heart grenade on their latest cover. You can check it out here:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0...CLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

As for the concept- unless it was completely on a subconcious level, I've never seen it before. Speaking of which, I haven't set foot in a record store for years. The idea came to me when I woke up Friday morning because I hate Valentine's day commercialism. My initial image was going to be Cupid putting an arrow through somebody's head at point-blank range but that would've been too much modelling work for the time-frame.

I'm completely embarassed cause I hate that lame-ass punk band (no offense to anyone.) At least I can say my execution was rather different. Now I'm gonna go hide my head somewhere...

[edit - I have to emphasize that I really hate that band.]

[Trapezium]

Sorry dude, no offense meant, I was just surprised when I saw it on a Grammies commercial or something

--Jon

[jujubee]

It's completely fair to imply that someone is stealing someone else's idea - I'm glad you're upfront because other people may be thinking the same thing. The last thing I would want is for someone to take my idea.

In my defense - if I did borrow the idea, I wouldn't have gone after someone so popular and claim that the concept was my own. Secondly, if it was intentional I would give credit where credit is due (as I have no problem doing that.) Thirdly, I hate that freakin pop group and all things associated with it. Seeing that it is none of the above, I think it's just boils down to pure freaky coincidence.

[Syclone1]

ahhh dont fret to much about it jujubee, we wont burn you at the steak this time LOL j/k

anyway the two images are very different so I think your in the clear this time

-dave