[Chivalry] – Agatha Knight - Court armour

ILYA

Hello friends! I digged hundreds armour pictures while searching for main idea and interesting design elements, and finaly i realized that all my attempts to create something unusual and eye-catching is nothing compared to THIS.

Let me introduce you: 'Horned helmet' of Henry VIII




This thing is real. Dated 1510-1515, i hope judges will forgive 10 year period mismatch.

Good news for me - it has many high quality references.
Even turnaround on youtube:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05-jkGrYqDI"]'Horned helmet' of Henry VIII - YouTube[/ame]

Bad for me - it will be hard to wrap in 1200 tris, but i`ll do my best.

Sophax

that looks weird and funny tbh

ILYA

Sophax wrote: »

that looks weird and funny tbh

yeah, some real medieval trollface)

NBLM

that's really strange and cool, never thought that they built something like this in medieval times.

ILYA

ILYA

Modeled in simple subD. Ill maybe use Zbrush for finer details later.

zetheros

Impressive! I'm worried about the helmet tri limit like you said, but it looks like you'll do just fine

ILYA

Quick test render. Checked shading and overall look.

ILYA

zetheros wrote: »

Impressive! I'm worried about the helmet tri limit like you said, but it looks like you'll do just fine

All holes will be only on texture not geo. And maybe i have to do horns more short

zetheros

Yeah... there's a lot of circular detail

Best of luck though, the high poly is looking fantastic. I was wondering though, have you fitted the helmet to the agatha knight head? The neck hole looks a little small (unless the rest of the helmet is scaled to the neck size, too), because you can't alter the chainmail coif, and that got in the way when I made my helmet.

ILYA

This is a good point , thank you. How it fits now:




Neck area need adjustment, but nothing critical. I`ll fix it on the lowpoly.

zetheros

Save the model with the correct neck proportions though, that's an excellent mesh you might be able to use in the future, in case they update the base meshes, so that armets and close helms can have correct proportions.

ILYA

Here is the ready lowpoly model. All shapes a bit angular, but i can nothing to do with it.





Screen from 3DO, model and normal map applied.

zetheros

If the gift from emperor Maximilian I to King Henry VIII doesn't win in the competition, I have no idea what will

Good work!

ILYA

I highly doubt it But i like to think that i am the first man in human history who modeled The Horned helmet of Henry VIII in 3D (with polycount 1196 tris). So my name is allready in line with Columbus, Gagarin and Armstrong. Im happy

Nolt

Haha, nice save on those 4 polys . That's ok, my helmet was exactly 1200.

ILYA

So, I decided that simple subD high poly looks boring, and added smaller details using zbrush.
Here is the render with matcaps.




Then slightly tweaked lowpoly and tried to achieve similar results in my textures.
Screenshot from 3DO.

ILYA

Now its time for weapon. I wish to use real references for all parts, so i choose this:

"Bohemian Broadsword"



There is modern replicas which i used as a close up references. I like overall design and i think that twisted parts will fit with shape of the horns on my helmet.

High-poly is almost ready.



I decided to change leather handle to wire wrap and fully modeled it. just for fun)

GRAT0R

Impressive!!!!

zetheros

I really hope this set is one that wins, you did an incredible job at replicating historically accurate armour and weapons. Bravo!

ILYA

GRAT0R, Zetheros Thank you guys! I really like your entries too.