Grim Reaper....
 

hey guyz, ok u see im putting my self into the test into make a grim Reaper...

and yeah im really new to maya its been few months only that i've had my hand around it, i dont really go 2 maya school or something, im learning mostly everything from the net, so plz help me out when i'm creating something and it needs help....

anyways here is the 2D image that i wanna model...

so guyz plz help me out while im working thru, ty...

Ok this is my first step, creating his head...

The Head... i didnt put the teeth yet cuz thats under detailing i'll leave it for later....

When I did a reaper I staretd by making a skull not from a image but I found some front and side reference images and then modeled it from there.

Its what I would recommend you doing as the skull dosent look very human at the moment.

oh yeah ur right no wonder ive been having a hard time making his head lol...

thanks alot im ganna go right now and make a new head and search for a skeleton image...

cheers :beer:

I'm Back!!! anyways guyz i've just got done with my Skull.

on what gster123 said 2 making a grim reaper i need to start with a human front and side images... Ok i did that...

ok hopeful its ok now if its Not Please help me out improve it..

Cheers :beer:

Here is the Subdiv Model.

Low poly model

Looking good. Need to make him more evil though.

Have a look at this might help you out with the wires and the topology

Thank You SO Much "gster123".. It would really help me a lot..

ok then im ganna go work on it right away

Looks like a cool project, I’ll be watching!

BTW, gster, congrats on the 3000th post!
:beer:

Backstabber, seriously, this is looking really good!

thanks, well im really working my Ass Of to making this happen so thanks for checking it out. i'll be done real soon with the skull, then next up the ribs and back bone ;)..

alright then back 2 work for me i guess :p

Cheers :beer:

Hey Guyz, Im BACK.... OMG this is really painful but in a good way painful 2 making the skull lol, ive worked real hard on the skull so hopefully u like it and plz tell me if its good enough 2 carrying on the next part of the body.

and yeah "gster" the skull image u showed me really helped alot thanks again....

so wat do u guyz think of the skull Now???

here are 2 wireframe snapshot and 2 without it

the other wireframe

lol he's starting 2 look evil here... btw i havent merged him yet cuz i wanna know if there are any problems with it so i could edit fast but if its all good i'll send the merged skull..

anyways how do u send 2 images or more into one post??? i keep on waiting 45 sec till i send the other image :zzz:

ty

Cheers :beer:

side view

Looking a lot better now.

I would make sure that the top of his head dosent come to a point (iE like the top of a sphere, as it kinda looks like it does at the moment and from the crmera angles) try to make it a series of squares, it will make it easier to texture and it gives a better flow of geometry.

Heres the link to when I did my model, might give you some ideas on how to go about the rest of him

http://forum.simplymaya.com/showthre...threadid=24497

Cheers

Steve

Thanks u sooo much Steve

I could only say one thing about ur Grim it "AMAZING":bow: .. im so jealous ... i feel so noob seeing ur work..

well thank u sooo much for showing me ur work, it would really help me alot on my Reaper.... i'll get right 2 it and yeah one more think in my image u can see his rib cage so thats wats ganna be in mine differ from urs...

ok then its really good 2 know that my skull is good 2 go besides the top part.. ok then i'll go fix it and work on the rest of the body, i'll go by working on his ribs and back bone first, even thu it wont be shown cuz few parts will be covered by his robe...

once again thanks for ur help...

CHeers mate :beer:

looking great! Ive never attempted to create a skull, but it looks pretty difficult.

That's much better!! Very nice! Hey, you might try to eliminate the peak running along the center of the skull, but otherwise, brilliant work mate!!

Sparticus

Thanks alot for the comments guyz, hmm yeah ur right "Sparticus" the peak in the middle looks weird, i'll work on that.
and about the skull, honestly its quite hard but honestly being part of this community anything is possible, i mean i look around the forum and i notice that people around are really helpful, as u can see what i started with and now im getting something so what im trying 2 say thanks 2 all the People who help around here

Cheers guyz :beer:

Cheers man, not looked at that thread for ages, to be honest it came out realyl well, think that I could do better now though!

I use a lot of the artisan tools to smooth the low poly geo and sculpt it about, takes a while to get used to but once you do it speeds up workflow so much.

If ive got a ridge on an organic model i use the smooth tool (not the poly smooth tool but the artisan smooth tool) When you start to use it it looks like your destroying your model but using the push and pull tools you can sort it out with a nice disturbution of geo, then go it and move the bits that need to move to give definition, that how I made my skull.

I also use a smooth proxy for one side of the medel to mirror the get across but seeing the results.

nicely i love artisan tools, wow it really soften my skull alot.

Thanks alot Steve to pointed out 2 me.

its a pretty interesting tool, at first my skull got a hole right thru, then i was likE WT* :eek:, i was really shocked but good think u said that it might get destroyed so i was like thats normal so i undo and look at each attributes and wat it does 2 my skull... it took me awhile 2 figure it out but when i got the hang of it, my skull started too look pretty cool..

ok here is an update on the skull being soften

side view

front view

hey guyz here is an update on the Grim Reapers, backbone + Rib cage. i didnt take much time on it cuz it wont be shown that much on wat the original image shows so i did only 6 ribs which will be showing.
anyways just showing u guyz on how its doing.

Cheers :beer:

Hey guyz im back. ive worked on the hands and Scythe.

at this point i would like as much C& C plz, cuz i can't take the next step until i know how its doing...

so please Criticize and comment on wat 2 next all HELP is Appreciated.

front image

Thats awesome. I still think he should look evil.

Take a look at these:
http://209.132.69.82/uploaded_from_z...6330096zxr.jpg

thanks, i'll go work on that right away so anything else i should work on before i put the robe.

Please help! thanks

Maybe model a simple cervical vertebra to add some detail to the upper spine, if its visible after the robe.

thanks for the reply guyz anyways "kinddoggofwar" yeah ur rite i've notice a bit of the back bone will be showing, so i guess i better work on making it look more detailed.

and

louis56 ive worked on making him look Evil, hopefully this will do

OK im just ganna update u guyz on how its doing so far... ive made a SIMPLE ROBE so dont kill me cuz its Ugly. i just wanted to know wat will be showing and wat will not.

Front Image for the Evil Face :bandit:

The evil skull looks pretty... scary, so that's no problem
the robe needs a LOT of work though :p but I think you figured that out yourself as well ;)
just keep going :)

Thanks for the comment "Freaky-Freeky" , well im ganna touch the skull abit more later after i fit the robe perfectly... and yeah about this robe its doesnt need alot of work it needs to be deleted lol :p , i just droped it 2 show an example for ya u all. but im working at the moment on it... :attn: i'll be posting an update on it soon.

Cheers :beer:

Hey guyz, i'm Back... Sorry took me so long to update, i was pretty sick for the past few dayz i could't get my hand around my Grim...

so anyways i've just worked on my Grims Robe, Skull and his scythe..

C&C welcome, i would really want any critz on him, cuz honestly im abit lost on how 2 make his Robe cuts look good.. Please Help, Any Help is Appreciated

Front View.. Skull

Close Up

side View