Splinterlands Art Contest // Week 171 // HILL GIANT

For this weeks contest I decided to take some big steps, and do my version of The Hill Giant.

I used this image as my reference.

I started out with my favorite Michael 4 character from my poser 12 library. I have been using him a lot lately because of his versatility and huge wardrobe.

To make him look more like the Hill Giant I had to do a lot of work to his body. First I had to scale him so that he was a lot bigger then normal size. Then I got rid of the hair and shaped the head so it had more of a caveman look.

Another thing that I noticed in my reference image was that the Hill Giant is pretty hairy, so I made sure to add extra hair to his body.

When building the set, I added plenty of Hills, because what is a Hill Giant scene without hills. I also followed the lore and added a volcano.

For the animation, I used my Kinect Motion Capture camera.

This is me doing the giants motion of picking up the tree, before I throw it at the camera. It was a little tough to bend over because I gained a few pounds over the holidays,
But even though I ate way too much, luckily I am still not quite as big as the giant lol