HMC #16- Predator helm + alien skull

[Baskiliskos]

Good Luck. Looks like it'll be a fun model.

[TimCallaway]

nice! can't wait to see it.

[chrisbeaver]

Sweet plan; I look forward to seeing where you take it :)

My only advice at this point is to be very, very careful about the reference images you track down; every movie has done completely different Predator-helmet designs, and even professionally-made sculpts of the source design can have little differences here and there. As long as you give each reference a careful comparison before you use it, you should be golden :thumbsup:

[korukun]

update #1, i completly forgot how to go about heads/ faces so this is a entirely different level of challenge for me. but here is the progress thus far on both spending roughly 45 mins on it.
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j30/Majinshadow/alien_01.jpg
alien skll base layout.
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j30/Majinshadow/helm_01.jpg
and predator helm with smoothed version next to it.

directions to a decent face tutorial would be nice, other than that, see you on wednesday mystic.

[korukun]

Update, the helm model you saw before got deleted on accident. but that's ok, since i got my ref images scaled to each other. anyway, here is the progress thus far. i'm having great troubles getting the cheek shape and hard ring edge to flow around the mesh.http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j30/Majinshadow/helm_02_01.jpg

here is the non wire frame ver
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j30/Majinshadow/helm_02_02.jpg

Thoughts and suggestions?

also the right side of the mask is the version i started from, the left are the changes.

[bowly]

Looks good and pretty fast! Only suggestion i have is to make the top of the helmet rounder and stick out more in my opinion it might be a bit flat.

looking forward to more!

[WyattHarris]

I'm looking at different ref images of the predator helmets and everyone one of them is fairly symetrical so you may not need that uneven part in the front. The edges along the top are a little too sharp to I believe. The mouth part in the front is looking really good.

Here is one example.
http://www.sideshowtoy.com/mas_assets/jpg/900036_press04-001.jpg

[ConceptStingray]

hi,nice that you chose something from predator and alien series...
here is reference that i have used when i was making predator mask:

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/3315/biotemplatep101nc7.th.jpg (http://img171.imageshack.us/my.php?image=biotemplatep101nc7.jpg)

here is a render of my predator mask:

http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/215/avphelmet1mm1.th.jpg (http://img522.imageshack.us/my.php?image=avphelmet1mm1.jpg)

and if u really have big troubles modeling your own mask you can study this mask I made(free,everyone can dl.obj file.prety dirty,but fixable mesh):

http://www.2shared.com/file/3760368/d282714f/predator_helmet01.html

I hope it is going to help.

[korukun]

Thank you very much for the tips. right now i'm trying to get most of the edges to work right along with doing battle with maya crashes. it seems maya dislikes my new Nvidia drivers.
Thursday night i'll be posting the next portion of improvment.

[korukun]

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j30/Majinshadow/helm_03.jpg

here is the update, i got the cheek bone to work how i want so far. but some other things are now crubmling, the lower chin and left side cricle dip. also gotta chape the eye filler more to fit the image.

[TimCallaway]

ah man looking good =]

[korukun]

as required here is an update on the mask. note that i will be doing critical work on the back of the mask, chin and aiming device. but for now here is it with some quick mats.

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j30/Majinshadow/Pred_beauty_03.jpg

enjoy! more to come after this weekend for i have a convention.

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