Races of Middle Earth - character - Leigh

#385

hey leigh, ive been watching your progress on this awesome model for sometime (page 15 n on) and i must say, its been quite an eye popping experiance.

your work is trully amazing, but im sure you know that already, considering this thread is filled with 10% constructive critisims, 5% of your work, 5% of people who express there jaw dropping reactions in seeing your work, and 80% in saying how awesome your work is ;-).

i thought i’d do the same.

but i was also curious, i love the cloth/texturing used on the dress of the btw, but you mentioned shredding it up some

is that going to be done around the base? or maybe im asking a stupid question lol.

otherwise ive been trying to look @ the model and find things to question, or give suggestions on improving, but i just cant lol.

well done, and with the way this models going i know it’ll turn out to be another ORC of moria head(oh, thats a compliment :p)

TTYL

#386

Thank you very much for all the comments everyone :thumbsup:

Not really much, just been shredding up the cloth some more…

More to come soon…

#387

coming along nicely! What about making some holes also in the middle of the cloth, not only on the borders? I like the colors!
Keep it up! :thumbsup:

#388

use an alpha map to make some of the fiber shredding at the bottom…

#389

awesome as always

#390

More shredding… more holes… more alpha maps… more to come…

Oh, and just for fun (I was bored while waiting for a render) I did a “bigfoot sighting” style piccy! :smiley:

Have you seen this elf?? hehehe

#391

Beautifully done, you’re an inspiration to us all

#392

Leigh, all this work makes me wondering: when are you going to remove the surprised expresion on his face?

:stuck_out_tongue:

Great work!
:thumbsup:

#393

Kick thir balls girl! :smiley:

i think it’s now time for u to go to modelling :smiley:

#394

Everything looks like it was made with love and commitment. Ok when will you be finishing the skin? I do hope it will be pretty soon. GREAT TEXTURE WORK!!

#395

Thanks for the comments guys :smiley:

That surprised expression will be going soon :wink:

Okay, here is a VERY VERY VERY QUICK environment test, using a pic of the Dead Marshes from TTT as an environment. I will obviously match shadows and lighting properly once I decide on my final shot, but this is the sort of feel I think I be heading for.
This is just a quick Photoshop mockup.

I will be doing the ghostly skin soon - right now, that blaring whitish tone is really ruining things :surprised

Oh, and his right hand is like that because he is going to be holding a spear-like weapon :wink:

#396

:drool: I think Im in love.

:wink:

#397

im with bilbo on that, remind me not to go fishing there :open_mouth:

thats wikkid leigh, really is!

#398

just wanted to be the 400th reply.

a little bit of loquacity in here
:slight_smile:

Stefano

#399

through all of this stuff…the one thing that kinda aggrivates me is all of the LOTR “fans” out there…who never heard of tolkien 'til the movie came out…heheh just my 2 (cents symbol)

:wavey:

#400

Snakeman, Lord Of The Rings is the most widely read book in the English speaking world after the Christian Bible.
I think most people had heard of it before :slight_smile:

I personally have ALWAYS been a fan :smiley:
Apart from having first read the books as a little kid, I have an LOTR poster by Cauty on my bedroom wall that I have had for years and years - merchandise that predates the films :slight_smile: That poster still looks awesome!
Most of my friends read the book when they were kids too.

So I think that most people did know the story from before :slight_smile:

I think a lot of the appeal for the films was that people wanted to see if the films would portray Middle Earth in the way that we had always imagined it to look.

I will never forget the day, in early '99, when I first read in the local paper that a film was going to be made of the series. From that day forth, I waited with growing excitement to see them, and I even had my really high expectations totally surpassed!

#401

I know, it bugs me as well :slight_smile: I read the hobbit way back many a year ago, and i enjoyed it then i read the LOTR series… but Then there is Leigh who just rawks the moodeling and skinnin… one of the few who’s entry fits.

#402

It was mandatory reading in my school. Looking great Leigh.

#403

your upset so many picked up on a great story?

what, is the story only for the few and the proud?’

edit:

i dont mean to start an argument by this either, i just feel that because i began reading the novels after the fellowship was was released in theatres, that im somehow not a true fan or something in which older fans, fans that predate the movies

(including the animated one, which how many can say they have and or watched [ i only say this because from what the people ive talked to they havent watched it so ive lent it to them]) stand apoun from the rest of the fans, that only started falling in love with this story after it was brought to film.

I love leighs work, i love the books, and the movies, and my friend has some other books ive only had the fortune of catching glimpses of. i dont see why you have to be angry.

is it because people may not have been fortunate enough to have heard of these books growing up like myself?
had i known about these i would have no dout read them.

PS. if this causes an argument, that was not my intention.

#404

Originally posted by mage111
[B]your upset so many picked up on a great story?

what, is the story only for the few and the proud?’

edit:

i dont mean to start an argument by this either, i just feel that because i began reading the novels after the fellowship was was released in theatres, that im somehow not a true fan or something in which older fans, fans that predate the movies

(including the animated one, which how many can say they have and or watched [ i only say this because from what the people ive talked to they havent watched it so ive lent it to them]) stand apoun from the rest of the fans, that only started falling in love with this story after it was brought to film.

I love leighs work, i love the books, and the movies, and my friend has some other books ive only had the fortune of catching glimpses of. i dont see why you have to be angry.

is it because people may not have been fortunate enough to have heard of these books growing up like myself?
had i known about these i would have no dout read them.

PS. if this causes an argument, that was not my intention. [/B]

You’ve forced me (in a great way) to realise its not that you became a fan after seeing the movies that would bug me, but that someone who’s interest came from the movies and never went very deap to trying to understand the story and the depth it has.