Hello there, Welcome to my
second tutorial. This one I will be sort of
a guide how I go about modeling a head, I'm
not sure if I will be covering anything new
seeing as theirs all ready so many great modeling
tutorials out their.
But I will just go though how I will be creating
a new character, starting from the concept stage
then to the modeling.
Right the character I will be making is called
Alastor Moody (AKA Mad-Eye Moody, he's a interesting
character from the fourth Harry Potter book.
I will paste in some text from the book for
people who have not heard of him, to get the
idea of the character.
Who is he?
Name: Alastor Moody Nickname: Mad-Eye, because
of his magic eye, who can see even through the
walls... and the invisible cloaks
Job: he was an Auror (a dark wizard catcher),
but he is retired now. In Goblet of Fire he's
the new professor of Hogwarts in Defense Against
the Dark Arts.
Except from CHAPTER ELEVEN
"Mad-Eye Moody?" said George thoughtfully,
spreading marmalade on his toast. "Isn't he
that nutter -" "Your father thinks very highly
of Mad-Eye Moody," said Mrs. Weasley sternly.
"Yeah, well, Dad collects plugs, doesn't he?"
said Fred quietly as Mrs. Weasley left the room.
"Birds of a feather. . ." "Moody was a great
wizard in his time," said Bill. "He's an old
friend of Dumbledore's, isn't he?" said Charlie.
"Dumbledore's not what you'd call normal, though,
is he?" said Fred. "I mean, I know he's a genius
and everything.. ." "Who is Mad-Eye?" asked
Harry. "He's retired, used to work at the Ministry,"
said Charlie. "I met him once when Dad took
me into work with him. He was an Auror - one
of the best. . . a Dark wizard catcher," he
added, seeing Harry's blank look "Half the cells
in Azkaban are full because of him. He made
himself loads of enemies, though. . . the families
of people he caught, mainly. . . and I heard
he's been getting really paranoid in his old
age. Doesn't trust anyone anymore. Sees Dark
wizards everywhere."
Except from CHAPTER TWELVE
A man stood in the doorway, leaning upon
a long staff, shrouded in a black traveling
cloak. Every head in the Great Hall swiveled
toward the stranger, suddenly brightly illuminated
by a fork of lightning that flashed across the
ceiling. He lowered his hood, shook out a long
mane of grizzled, dark gray hair, then began
to walk up toward the teachers’ table. A dull
chunk echoed through the Hall on his every other
step. He reached the end of the top table, turned
right, and limped heavily toward Dumbledore.
Another flash of lightning crossed the ceiling.
Hermione gasped.
The lightning had thrown the man’s face into
sharp relief, and it was a face unlike any Harry
had ever seen. It looked as though it had been
carved out of weathered wood by someone who
had only the vaguest idea of what human faces
are supposed to look like, and was none too
skilled with a chisel. Every inch of skin seemed
to be scarred. The mouth looked like a diagonal
gash, and a large chunk of the nose was missing.
But it was the man’s eyes that made him frightening.
One of them was small, dark, and beady. The
other was large, round as a coin, and a vivid,
electric blue. The blue eye was moving ceaselessly,
without blinking, and was rolling up, down,
and from side to side, quite independently of
the normal eye - and then it rolled right over,
pointing into the back of the man’s head, so
that all they could see was whiteness. The stranger
reached Dumbledore. He stretched out a hand
that was as badly scarred as his face, and Dumbhedore
shook it, muttering words Harry couldn’t hear.
He seemed to be making some inquiry of the stranger,
who shook his head unsmilingly and replied in
an undertone. Dumbledore nodded and gestured
the man to the empty seat on his right-hand
side. The stranger sat down, shook his mane
of dark gray hair out of his face, pulled a
plate of sausages toward him, raised it to what
was left of his nose, and sniffed it. He then
took a small knife out of his pocket, speared
a sausage on the end of it, and began to eat.
His normal eye was fixed upon the sausages,
but the blue eye was still darting restlessly
around in its socket, taking in the Hall and
the students. “May I introduce our new Defense
Against the Dark Arts teacher?” said Dumbledore
brightly into the silence. “Professor Moody.”
It was usual for new staff members to be greeted
with applause, but none of the staff or students
chapped except Dumbledore and Hagrid, who both
put their hands together and applauded, but
the sound echoed dismally into the silence,
and they stopped fairly quickly. Everyone else
seemed too transfixed by Moody’s bizarre appearance
to do more than stare at him. “Moody?” Harry
muttered to Ron. “Mad-Eye Moody? The one your
dad went to help this morning?”.
I've chosen this character because it should
be interesting and a challenge, the main features
I have to think about is his face as described
in the text his face is very heavily scared,
he's quite old retirement age, a chuck of his
nose missing and of course a large blue eye
before starting any concept
sketches myself I had a look around
the net to see if anyone had tried sketching
him to give me a idea.
I found a few sketches that
helped these are by Tealin Raintree
taken from his site.
Like all my work I will be going for a realistic
looking character so I'm going to tone down
a few of his features. The diagonal shaped mouth
I don't think is going to work and the size
and colour of his blue false eye I will probably
reduce.
Now because I'm going for realism I'm going
to actually base him on a actors face, now after
thinking who would be good for the part.
Some one with mad stareing eyes, and who
can look quite menacing plus also show kindness,
plus also quite old, in the same age range.
I came up with Tom Baker, those who have never
heard of him he's a old English actor.
I had a look on the net for photos of him
and as many different facial expressions as
possible.
Now I'm tempted just to start
modeling right away, but its best to
do some sketches first, theirs a few
things to think about just how badly
scared do I want his face, (most of
the scaring will be done when texturing).
plus a part of his nose is missing,
it does not say what part. So I need
a think a little, I want the face to
look quite disturbing when first viewed
by someone.
Here's one sketch I've done,
I'm still not sure how I going to do
his nose I'm going to start modeling
and try different ideas ones I've modeled
the nose.
I guess I should load up
Maya and see what a happens.
