Tru Blood Fan Artwork
- Posted by: Chris
- Posted on: 6/26/2025
- Comments: 0
- Categories: 3D, Lightwave,
| COPY: | N/A | LAYOUT: | Chris Wetzel |
| Models: | Chris Wetzel | SURFACING: | Chris Wetzel |
Design notes:
Have an idea for several alternate True Blood image endings... I've titled them "Sunburn" and "Moonburn". Sookie Stackhouse the mind reading part Fairy Bar-maid main chracter of the show was known for sun bathing. One poster has her sun bathing and drinking a Corona beer, the other moonbathing and drinking a Tru-Blood as a vampire. Sookie will have a "Forever Bill" tattoo on the arm reaching out for the drink. I found a vecter image of the Tru-Blood Logo online, that made making the UV-textures for the Tru-Blood bottle and 4pak easy. Modeling the bottle at the hero detail shown with embossed text, Jananese characters and screw threads, was not easy. At one time Tru-blood could be bought on the HBO merch website... it was orange soda dyed red.
Design notes:
I had the Shiner Boch beer bottle already modeled for a different project, but wanted Sookie to drink a Corona with lime. So I modeled the subtlety different Corona bottle and once again found a vector Corona logo online for the UV texture. I found a free PBR texture image online for water condensation droplets on the bottle, but was not entirely happy with how they looked especially when animated dripping down the bottle. I modeled my own headstone for the graveyard and gave myself a long vampire lifespan. Used the DP Verdure plug-in to create the tree and grass for the graveyard. The Verdure plugin works great on the grass even creates a UV texture for the grass blades or tree leaves, but doesn't use instancing so 500,000 blades of grass can quickly eat-up system resources. Below is a close up of the bottles, beach chair and cooler... still need to create the Sookie Character, add more trees to graveyard background and do more textureing.
