Empress Warlord

EternalEcho

Hi!
New project I decided to start.  I am going to be working concept-> game ready model on a piece for my personal portfolio.  My idea is to design a semi-realistic set of ceremonial-style armor for a female warlord.  This means no boob armor, no giant spikes, no visible skin.  I am primarily drawing from Edo period Japan, and Italian masquerade culture.

I decided to start with the helmet/headdress, which will later drive the form language for the rest of the armor.  I refined down to these 5:

Looking for crit! 

I will continue to post progress as it happens.

battleyak

Ah loving these headdress designs  

I'm leaning towards A because of its shape and the cowl, but D looks awesome too especially with the high neckline (looks kind of like the top middle reference pic with the gold mask and black feathers?), excited to see more!

Oqtopus

ooh nice designs! i like D the most personally, b has a nice silloute aswell

EternalEcho

So I started with some silhouettes.  Not really happy where they ended up and I felt like I hit a wall with them without any really good choices so I took the one that I found remotely interesting and started to sketch it really loosely in zbrush.  Pushed and pulled, played with some ideas.  A lot of the cohesion between armor parts will come later with what I have planned, but isn't really easy to portray in Zbrush quickly (holes, filagree, etc).  Brought it into maya today to start the clean hard surface modeling before bringing it back into zbrush for detailing.  Other visual notes: she will have chainmail covering her neck, and stomach, leather on the legs.

Sam Leheny

Now that looks like fun;D

purplekami

Can't wait to see how this one turns out, the colors could also be very fun to play with.