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[Nazgûl]

Started painting. Here's the color sheme of the first (of three) skin tones... 

 

Edited by Nazgûl, 22 January 2020 - 04:37 PM.

[njm1983]

Looking ugly. Lol

[Nazgûl]

U don't like it NJM? 

 

Now the first (of two) bodies is complete. This is the "slimline" body, with the bright skin color... Painting heads is fast, so once the second body is painted, the rest of the heads will be quick =)

 

Edited by Nazgûl, 22 January 2020 - 04:39 PM.

[MattTheLegoman]

Concept art from the Hobbit that I would like to see as armour on these guys. =D

 

http://cargocollecti...e-Hobbit-part-I

http://cargocollecti...-Hobbit-part-II

[pedrodavidpinto]

Amazing photos that you post in this last comment, MattTheLegoman.

[njm1983]

I'm just telling it like it is. They are ugly. I do like them though.

[Nazgûl]

Yeah, I understand ^^

 

3 heads done... 

 

Edited by Nazgûl, 22 January 2020 - 04:46 PM.

[njm1983]

They look great! And ugly lol

[sherv]

Nice

[Nazgûl]

Two more heads done... These feature the second skin tone "tanned". The first design is from the Weta book in post one, The second head design is from a scene in the movie, when they attack Lake Town =) I just love sculpting and painting these guys 

 

Question... what do you think? Should all wear war paint, or just some? In all the images and videos I can find, only the pale skinned orcs seem to wear war paint?

 

 

 

Edited by Nazgûl, 22 January 2020 - 04:48 PM.

[Lauri]

Just some warpaint. Looks random in the films.

[njm1983]

I would suggest the war paint be a bit more sloppy. It looks good but to cleanly applied.

[Nazgûl]

...as do the screens from the movie set though. But I get your point.

Edited by Nazgûl, 20 July 2014 - 12:03 PM.

[njm1983]

They look airbrushed. And in perfectly straight lines too. Film accurate or not, orcs wouldn't care if it was perfectly applied warpaint. They'd just slap it on like the isengard uruks. I'm glad you see my point though

[Lauri]

Are the faces mirrored? If so, it's hard to apply a "rough paint". If the faces aren't mirrored, it's much easier.

[Nazgûl]

Yeah, I just tried to replicate the images, like this one:



Faces aren't nescessarily mirrored... I'll see what I can do about the paint.

Here's two more heads, these have the third and final skin tone:

 

Edited by Nazgûl, 22 January 2020 - 04:57 PM.

[njm1983]

Great stuff naz. Gawd they are hideous.

[Nazgûl]

 

Heads up! Here are all the (more or less) finished heads for comparison... well finished as in sculpted and painted. Painstaking topology remains off course. Next up is finishing the bodies and the armor. So what do you think, should we have a ninth head while I'm at it? A dark skinned one... if I can find a nice concept as I seem to have plowed though both the barrel scene and the attack on Lake Town.

In the finishing touches I will adjust the war paint slightly to be a bit more sloppy as well as change eye color to vary more...
 

 

Head 1: Attack at Lake Town (This one must have Moria Orc DNA?) ^^
Head 2: Production set image
Head 3: Weta design book
Head 4: Bolg's squad attacking Tauriel by the water fall
Head 5: Attack at Lake Town (mixed with production set image)
Head 6: Production set image (expanded with different hair plus bones)
Head 7: Weta design book (+ scene in AUJ where Azog commands him to cut of Thorin's head. He is then killed by Bilbo) This is my favourite ^^
Head 8: Production set image

Upcoming Head 9: could be the captured orc killed by Thranduil...
 

Edited by Nazgûl, 22 January 2020 - 04:59 PM.

[njm1983]

I think they look awesome. You could take features from some of them and sort of mesh them together to make the last head if you can't find another design to copy.

[MattTheLegoman]

An idea from one of the designers who worked on The Hobbit? =D (I posted a link to his website in a post above.)

http://payload276.ca...w_Orc_04_NK.jpg