Hello. This is 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.
