PreHistoric-Futuristic helmet...

raphick

Good morning all,

I am currently working on a nex-gen version of a helmet for my self-portrait.

It is an emptied dinosaure tooth, with futuristic electronical devices incrusted in.

Here is the curent state...





Hope you'll like it...

See you

Psionic

Looks interesting, I assume thats a temp texture to check stretching etc?? If so I look forward to seeing the actual textures go on there

raphick

Here is what it looks like so far...

I applied the normal map(which has to be retouched), diffuse and specular to come, combined with DirectX9 Metal and Glow.





Here is the Hi-Poly:







Still hope you'll like it... (Yes, I'm hangin on!)

See you

notman

Interesting concept. Seems to me that the point is too sharp to be a tooth, but that's just my opinion

I'd like to see it placed onto a head to get a good idea of how it's supposed to be oriented.

fogmann

Nice idea, I like the concept, but I have to say that I'd never guess that the body of the helmet is a tooth - the detailing is making it look more like it's made of dried out soil. Also, I'm not sure if dinosaur tooth is big enough to be made into a helmet? Either way, I'd recommend using some good references, and there are plenty around - otherwise, nobody would be able to tell what helmet is made of and your cool idea will not come across.

raphick

Well, here is what it looks like on a head...













Still hangin on...

See you

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Wells

I'll second everything fogmann said.

raphick

Yes indeed, i didn't ignore what fogmann said and will modify in consequence, but I posted the last images in a hurry, without having changed the model...

raphick

lol indeed...

should I take it right... or not? lol

Motz

Why not model a complete dinosaur tooth, and add to it after you have the form to work from. As if you were making it by hand. Might be easier to see what would be recognizable. Check out some Turok games for reference on successful dino/tech combination for more ideas.

raphick

Not bad idea

EarthQuake

Model has tons of smoothing problems =(

raphick

I know
I am going to re-do it entirely, when I have much spare time...
You can anyway check what it looked like before I saw all of your comments on my website...

I 'll definitively redo it

JO420

This time around you should maybe consider adding bigger over all details to the tooth to give it more of an interesting shape,right now all of the micro detail just looks like a stencil in z brush.




kinda like the bottom roots of this thing.