Emperor Statue

For the admirals room I had to create and model a statue of the emporer. It starts as a symbol of power and glory, though it ends with destruction. So thats the quick summary of what this statue needs to show. The hard truth was we needed the statue to literally crumble.  So firstly I started to gather images of the Emperor at the time. First image (top) was perfect for the style and texture. I didn't want to go crazy as I didn't want to make it to hard as time isn't on my side and I have many models to finish aswel.

These 2 image above were just looking at some clothes, I like the circular patterns on his clothes and the hat.

I lover the idea of the Emperor being sat on his throne. But the concept of the standing statue crumbling was strong to the story.

Above are more images looking at the texture and style of the statue. I like the texture. I don't want to much bump on  the surface as I want it to look like its been well made.

First image showing the development of the statue. I started from a cube in maya and took that straight into zbrush. Not my usual method but I didn't want to create a base mesh in maya and get stuck with that shape. So I got into zbrush straight away to get the look I really want.

The hat was a difficult one. I wanted a unique hat from the time and saw a film named red-cliff that was based in the late 1400's. The 2 images above show how I have tried to create it, I didn't want it exact but close.

Here is the full body. I have added some nice robes and and started going into detail of the face. Some problems I had with the face was that I couldn't get the right eyes I wanted. I had to step back into Maya and add some polygon Spheres and build up the mesh around it.

Here is the eyes after that. I started to get the shape I wanted. Also I started looking at out to stylized the statue. I don't want it to look like its real. So I developed my own brush in Zbrush, it was based on the pinch tool but I made sure it gave me the a better angle when creating the harder edges as you can see around the eyes and nose.