Statue Progress

Week 17 - Hand Model

Last lesson we were taught how to make a hand.

I started with the fingers and tried to make them stocky and short like my dwarf design.

I decided on a slightly different design to my original. I intend to bring the glove and bracer into Zbrush and try some of the cloth brushes I have seen people use.

I'm not sure if the statue will be in the smoothed mode but this is how it looks. I feel the regular mode fits the style more but this looks more realistic.

I also went back to the head we had made for one of the lessons and worked on it and adjusted it to look like I wanted it to. I'm not sure how I will be making the beard yet but I think the rest of the features look okay.

Week 14 - Statue Concepts

As I already knew we would be making a statue this term, I made a podium in the fountain of my battle arena. On this podium I wanted a  statue that would fit the image. I decided on a regal looking dwarf as the placement looks quite important anyway.

I had a style in mind and the words regal, Celtic, Dwarven and warrior. I looked online to find some ideas and found some statues with interesting patterns. I also knew I wanted a weapon incorporated in the statue so looked at some good designs.

I began by doing some pencil sketches. I really like the face design and think it can be interesting to model.

I wanted to get an anatomy reference picture but it was almost impossible to find any decent ones for dwarf proportions.

Although this isn't exactly the proportions I had in mind for my character, I used it a base, though I couldn't find any which I liked facing forward.

Using images I found online and cropping them, I patched together an idea for my character.

I then went over and sketched my version to use for my model.

I then searched for a 3D model with it's wireframe showing to help me actually model though this. I can't just make a taller male's body and shrink it as the proportions are different but this picture is also different to what I had planned so I'm not sure how this will turn out.

Week 13 - Modeling a Face

In this weeks 3D lesson we looked at modeling a face using reference as we will soon be making a character statue.

We imported images into Maya, one on the side view and one on the front view. Using this I aligned the vertices in all directions. There was no reference for the back so there was a lot of guesswork involved and it took a while but this was good practice for my statue.