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Horus - Redesign Thumbnailsby *Canadian-Rainwater

Digital Art / Drawings / Technical Drawings

Just when I thought it was over ...
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While my first design got approved, I realized when sketching it again today that I could have taken it in another direction. Whereas I was playing it close to the traditional Ancient Egyptian deities and preserving the humanoid torso and bottom at first, I quickly grew partial to my sketches of a much more lithe, "chicken-legged" Horus guardian.

Unfortunately, the designs in my head involved elaborate satin loincloths with coins and headdresses made from Peacock feathers - things which I don't have the time, skill, nor professor's permission - to render. Without these aspects the second design because rather boring.

I'm pitching these thumbnails to my Maya professor tomorrow to see which he prefers for the final rendering product. You can see the first design here:

--Sak
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~ShadowOfNights Feb 25, 2011 Student Digital Artist

Little Details do make a difference. o.o Damn.

~Livie-Lightyear Jan 27, 2011 Student General Artist

This is almost like one of those "figure out which one is different" puzzles... I can stare at this forever and find something else to ogle. So amazing... Where do you get your ideas? Why don't *I* get them? why can't I be original, huh? WHYYYYyyyyyyy

*Canadian-Rainwater Jan 28, 2011 Student Filmographer

Heh, that's the exact same comment my dad made! ... About the puzzles.

Have you tried the thumbnail thing? Just draw the design small and blocked out and make sure it has an interesting silhouette - if the silhouette isn't interesting then there's no way the final character will be. After that just start drawing over it/erasing it to show the details. It's tough as hell and I hate the thumbnail process, but sometimes it gets easier and more ideas come to you.

~i-am-t3h-w1n Jan 27, 2011 Student General Artist

Baugh. You should've gone to my school. Our multimedia professor? He's awesome.
If you think you can do it, he's behind you 100%. He'll even help so you know how to do it.
His greatest pleasure is when his students blow his mind.
And Lost. He likes Lost.

I love the blue colors. The gold is nice too, and I've always liked gold, but the blue seems like something you could stare at.
Or like, night and day shift workers. Gold in the daytime, when it's bright to blend in/stand out and generally BAM! into your eyes with awesome gold, and blue at night to hide in the shadows and sneak up and FWA! shock you.

*Canadian-Rainwater Jan 28, 2011 Student Filmographer

My teachers have given me the option to take additional tutoring to the side for the feathers, but I'll need to prove I can properly render the rest of it, first.

~i-am-t3h-w1n Jan 28, 2011 Student General Artist

So they'll teach you to do the feathers afterward?
Or is it that you'll be learning to do the feathers while you render the robot?
Either way good luck with it. I wasn't the best student in class. Mediocre at best. Computers just aren't my thing.