I wondered if I could make a skull look "cyborgish", after learning how to do it to text. viewtopic.php?f=11&t=10108

Here's what I came up with. Not the best, but am satisfied how it turned out. By the way, brains are cool, haha.



Added a "brain holder", haha:



Added the eye:



Added jaw pin, and jaw hydraulics. Also, made the eye a bit darker:



Just noticed that the hydraulic is extended, and is jaw is shut, haha. Fixed it:



I forgot to mention that with the exception of the brain, eye iris and pupil, the rest was made entirely with the Bevel Reflect Logo plug in.

It is very, very disturbing. The contrast between artificial metalic skull to the gruesome bloody looking brain compound the effect.

I had electronics in the head to begin with, but couldn't make it look right.

Must not be too disturbing, you keep looking at it, haha.

I see you added an extra very, plus gruesome and bloody. Trying to make a point, are we?

Hahaha. I was a bit confused when you say you had electronics in the head. I was thinking about your head. Lol. Sorry about the unsuccessful attemp at the electronics. Image manipulation and compositing, and digital matte painting really requires very serious skills.

Did I say something bad. It is disturbing, but man, many would envy you. Many had tried making images that disturb people (horror?) and often failed. The way you do the brain is quite interesting that is why I keep looking at it. I never seen artist do it that way. I was also wondering how you did it. Natural from a photo or manipulated extensively? It is red so I say bloody and there seems to be blood in the valleys and I always think of exposed brain as gruesome. To tell the truth, your image has a strong feeling of conflict. It is quite masterful in the use of contrast from the materials (metal, brain), design (geometic circuit board, organic brain) and color(red brain, green circuit board). If you put more work into this, you might produce some very strong image.

Nah, you didn't say anything bad. It was nearly 2 in the morning, and I was in bed trying to type on my little Android player, that I can barely read the screen on, lol. The brain was a photo I found. I did a plastic coating on it, and the veins I added myself. It's actually an overlay, over another brain. I tried to place electronics in the head, but couldn't get it to look right. Then I tried adding gears, and it still didn't look right. I even had a glass panel over the brain at one point, haha. I wasn't really satisfied, but got tired of messing with it. The idea was to use the Bevel Reflect Logo plug-in, to make the skull. You're right though, it is a bit on the gruesome side. I removed it last night, after thinking that others may not want to see it.

Got my skull back up.

Very cool; big fan of Giger's work as well.

Oh dear, the rise of the machines is near.

Excellent work Warrior!

Skynet would be proud.

Looks cool.
I see what could be disturbing about this image, but to me it seems rather tame.

Thanks everyone, appreciate it. Skynet, haha. That's a goodin' GT.


Love it myself. I like that bio-mechanical look.

the skull came out exceptionally well, it is truly metal looking

Thanks 2-ton, appreciate it. Added a new photo to the OP. Added a "brain holder".

Hola, that is totally cool looking!

Thanks man, appreciate it. Just added an eye to it. Check out the OP.

really looks cyborg now…although it's a cyborg half organic? in which case maybe an organic eye as well as an organic brain would work? Still, I love the metallic eye so much I probably would not like an organic one anyway.