head first

well yes...for the karna project i needed to model a generic human head first and so i dove headfirst into it and hours of googling thru millions of tutorials and some more time on blender, results in my first head!

well as u can see, the character is quite humanlike. i am still in a dilemma whether i should go with such a character or make it more of a dineyish cartoon. The problem with a humanlike face/body is that animation will fall apart as it wont be believable; while with a cartoon u can take some laws into ur own hands which makes it better for me. With cartoons u also get the classic animated movie touch.

However, the problem with a toonish character is its design- i hav to do all the character sketches, create recognizable features tht wud stand apart and such things...while for humanlike models its easier as u can try cloning real actors from photographs (i used those of my favourite actor!..though it didnt turn out anythng like him...thankfully :-) )

decisions ... decisions ... well we'll see.

here r the pics. the blue and yellow one is the original render from blender. The rest hav been touched in gimp to add rain(it's an important element in the movie) and hues. Here again i hav to choose the hue to use for the movie- green(The Matrix), blue(LOTR) or slate.

plz do help me out wid ur comments.