Wesley Snipes a.k.a Blade

[armorfist]

Sure looks like him to me already. You going to do the entire body in costume?

[deadmanrip]

that's great he looks like him. :thumbsup: keep it going

[PedramK]

Very nice.
Thought maybe pull back the eyesocket a bit. They seem to be too far out right now.
Good stuff

[armorfist]

Very nice.
Thought maybe pull back the eyesocket a bit. They seem to be too far out right now.
Good stuff

Normally I would agree. But Snipes does have bulging/puffy sockets. Perhaps residue from when his bodyguards kicked his butt?:twisted:

[Afraid of the Dark]

Man! Fantastic likeness! What references did you use? One of the best likenesses I've seen. Keep truckin' bro!

[jariullah]

Salam
Wow .. Nice work. The eyesocket is a bit out .. Every thing else is khool.

[tomaa]

agree to last comment, the model looks great so far, except those eyes... they are coming out in some strange way... they don't match wesley snipes... and I guess the beard is not done yet, it is kinda flying in some spots..

but keep your good work up, and let us know when you progress, looks interesting

[frameless]

thx for the comments ;)
@armorfist: Don't think i will model the whole body...just the head

I will check the eyesockets, but i think i did them right:
(http://stephane.hellio.free.fr/DVD/demolition%20man.jpg)

[frameless]

heres an update...did some hair tests with Ornatrix.
hope u like it:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v230/gwemmer/front02.jpg

[nikudy]

Hi !

Don't have too much time:
-forehead too flat and almost inexistent;
-same for the arch;
-the chin should be stronger;
-i agree about the eyes.

waiting for the next update.

[Charkins]

This is a good start. Here is what I noticed:

- The eye area (especially lower part) is bulging too much.
- Forehead is too flat.
- Overall top of head alittle too squared off.

Keep it up!

[dmonk]

The only ting throwing me off are how the eyes are bulging a bit too much as has already been said.

PS

I thought THIS (http://www.hollywoodhardware.de/bladeii/blade/replica-bust.html) might help.

[frameless]

thx for the crits...
i changed the eyebrow and some other issues u mentioned:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v230/gwemmer/front_update.jpg

[NauticaC]

I like the updated pic you posted. I think that Wesley's hair was more of a flat-top in the movie blade, and I would lose the point that the hair comes to in the front as well. Check out this pic, or even look at a variety of them if you haven't already.

http://www.musicman.com/00pic/1251.jpg

[frameless]

Heres an update...started on diffuse texture(not really happy with it ^^)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v230/gwemmer/wesley_skin03.jpg

[Arsyn]

Pretty cool looking character. I didnt get the snipes look though.

I see more of a mixture between the singer Seal and Lawrence Fishbourne(spelling...the guy from matrix)

maybe make his jaws a little slimmer, make his eyebrow ridge heavier. That will take a little of the buldginess away from his eyes.

Theres something else wrong, but its sort of hard to pick out with those things already mentioned. I'll wait till you get more progress.

[davijin]

It kinda looks like it could be wesley's brother or something. With some certain tweaks like making the jaw a bit slimmer it could be wesley though. Looks good though, keep working.

[Phynix]

hi, great so far!!! :D
move the courner of his lips upwards
move out the area under his eyebrows
pronounce his cheek bones a bit more
make the area under his cheek bones smaller/thiner
and look at where the hair starts at my image
hope i helped ya :
http://img210.exs.cx/img210/4893/hilfe5vu.th.jpg (http://img210.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img210&image=hilfe5vu.jpg)

[frameless]

Heres an update after a long time:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v230/gwemmer/upload.jpg

I am not really happy with the skin shader (or better with the skin color) and i definatlly need some advices ;)

[DKR1138]

Thats Eddie Murphy brown, Wesley snipes is much darker... I think the original tone you had was more accurate...

[SanderWit]

Looks great and the eye looks like Snipes' but his face/cheecks is a bit too fat.

[frameless]

thanks for the advices, i don't know if i stick at wesley any longer...
I realized that there are many things that must be changed (jaw, eyes,...) to achive the look of Mr. Snipes and i have no more motivation to do another modelling steps :/
I guess i will just do a standard black male head ;)

Oh, and i updated the pic above and now i am pretty happy with the skin shader :)

[K_Digital]

I was very disappointed at Blade Trinity...but anyway.
I don't think you should stray away from making him wesley snipes. It does look like him, you have a good model, darken the skin and put on the shades and that's blade.

[Rumr]

looking good keep rockin it.

[Chems]

I agree with the crits here, remember blades a big guy so bulk him up! Also the eyes dont really matter to much cause Blade wears shades 99% of the time. Dont forget all the tats on the back of his head!

[frameless]

Thx guys!
Heres an update:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v230/gwemmer/upload_2.jpg

I changed the diffuse tex. of the eye, added eyelashes and did a lightning test with HDRI.
Even if i wanted to tweak the parts you mentioned (they are obviousley wrong) i would have to start with texturing again and i guess i don't want to do that (yes, call it lazyness) ^^
I saw this another study on the human head and until now i am pretty happy with the resut.
I think i have made another step forward.
It would have been nice if this head turned out to be an exact copy of wesley but...anyway...

EDIT: I know, the eybrows suck :/

[metamesh]

hi
It´s a nice model, but i don´t think he looks like him at all...i have even asked some people here and nobody recognized him, sorry mate...keep working on it anyway, im sure u will manage at the end!

[frameless]

thx metamesh, as i said before i don't know if I will stick at making him the exact wesley snipes.
Anyway heres an update:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v230/gwemmer/upload_3.jpg

Worked on the skin shader, bump and diffuse map (eyebrows, tearduct, nose) and did a little vertex pushing around his cheek area.

[frameless]

me again!
I don't know which one is better (i tend to the new one but help me to decide)

EDIT: The right (new) one is displayed on page 1 alone

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v230/gwemmer/new.jpg

left: old,
right: new

I have just scaled him a bit along the y-Achse...the texture is slightly streched but it is hard to recognize and the proportions do not make any problems too; but i hate scaling the whole model...Anyway, hope to see some more mistakes tomorrow...for today my eyes are done ;)

[frameless]

After my eyes had recovered, i looked at the picture again and thought that the old one was better, so i will go with this one ^^

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v230/gwemmer/upload_5.jpg

I have adjusted the specular and fixed this "seam" on his forehead.

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