The Reich calls you!

A commission for an unnamed RPG (pen and paper) book. It depicts a recruitment poster in Switzerland, urging people to join the Alpine Special Forces, soldiers who are cyborg enhanced. Circa 2018. I also did the entire character/armor design. Client asked for something Jin Roh (Wolf Brigade, an anime) esque in appearance.

Was originally going to use poser 5 for references but ended up scrapping all that I had referenced as the progress continued, so basically no references to speak of. Time taken was over 20 hours in Photoshop CS. Many, many changes, improvements and evolutions until it came out like this.

EDIT: The German text was not quite appropriate for a poster. Now it says "ruft", which means "calls" or something more appropriate. Also added more definition and clothing irregularities around the bent joints, and moved the left shoulder back a bit along with the arm, it was looking forward hunched earlier. Oh and, I now uploaded the full work size, not a downsized version. I hope it isn't too large for your monitors.

EDIT 2: Doh, sorry for spamming the notifications of you watchers. I didn't catch some evil artifacts left by fixing the shoulder. I caught it and fixed it. Also added a little copyright thing below as I recieved my payment and transferred the piece to my client.

EDIT 3: ... noticed the backpack was not aligned, it was far too much to his left Fixed! Also, came up with and added an artistical signature in the lower right. Nicer than a watermark.

EDIT 4: Major colour correction. Noticing my old monitor was set up too dark, making the image washed out. In this very image, it looked more fullbright cartoony. Now it looks as intended - a bit more dark and gritty (though not hardcore such).

Copyright 2005 Parnell Hayes.