Action Hero - Arctic

[rasmusW]

Hey guys!

Wow, cool topic for an contest. It's my first contest here at zbc, so i'm really exited. There's already a bundle of cool threads here.

I've more or less spend all my time from the announcing day till now (exept from eating a nice portion of christmas duck and drinking champagne at new year), trying to come up with a cool hero.
i've had many ideas but this one, came closest to my initial idea.
Enough talk... here's my contribution.



Artist name: Rasmus Warming

Name: Arctic (real name unknown)

Age: 50 years.

Abilities: His whole body can freeze, though not slowing him down or do any damage to his inner organs.
This abillity helps him in close combat, due to he doesen't need to worry about pain, because he can't feel it.
He's also known to be able to freeze components to death, by crystalline their inner. Though this only happends rarely, as he has to be really pissed to fo this.
He also ages slower due to this freezing abillity.

Weapon of choice: The ice tap found with him when he was a child.

Backstory (short version)

He was found by an british polar exploration team only 4 years old. They found him feasting on a ice bear, the little boy had just killed a few minutes prior with an tap of ice.
Brought back to England, scientists ran dozens of tests on him. Amazed by his abillities. So far none of them have succeded in explaining exactly how he's doing it, not hurting his organs in battle.
He also very quicly became of huge intrest for the secrect service. They trained him martial arts from when he was 6 years old.
He now works as heavy crime detective/minute-man, for the british governments secret service, newest project.

Yesterday, i started working on the zSphere bases aswell as first pass on his head. He looks older than he does in the conept, but i kinda like it, so for now i'll leave it be.
I recorded most of the "concepting" session. Sadly i forgot to press record after a short break, so the end is missing. Also made a little progess sheet of the same session. That you can see here.


-The different levels and zSphere bases.



Lastly the latest wip of the head. Next i'll start working on the body.



c&c is as always very welcome.

-r

[maxinkuk]

Hi, what a great headsculpt! If you carry on like that it'll be marvellous. Good story too, in the classic superheroes style I'd say.
Are you keeping body and head independent or do you plan to project the head on the body mesh?

[rasmusW]

Just thought i'd show some of my other conept ideas, just for fun.


Red: A super fiery woman, born from a crashing meteor.

Blue: A New York criminal detective, who's continuing his work at night as "the Watchman".

Also had a idea for a villian.
A failed psychiatrist, which brain overtook him. His abillity would be "shooting" off brain-waves to control weak minds.

-r

[Moni-Poroni]

Amazing sculpting start ...
fantastic
and I love the material you´ve chosen...
very arctic

Are you sculpting the head separately from the body ?

[KrakenCMT]

Nice sculpting on the head. He already has a unique character to him.

[SolidSnakexxx]

Wow, nice head sketch. You've got such an amazing ZSkill! This one's going to be awesome.

[Hamilcar]

Nice concept! and great head good work, can't wait to see your next post

[brettSinclair]

Hey Ras. Nice to see you entered this man. Good luck for the comp

[rasmusW]

hey guys!

thanks alot for the kind words.

Moni-Poroni: thanks alot. i started out with the head, because that's where i normally got the most clear idea of what i wanna do with a character.
but as you can see in this update, i just added the body as a different sub-tool.

KrakenCMT: thanks alot christopher. glad you like him.

SolidSnakexxx: wow.. thanks love your work too.

Hamilcar: thanks alot.

brettSinclair: thanks alot buddy. you should enter too. i know you got some cool ideas, even though you say otherwise.

well, here's today update.
i cut off his hands because i wan't really happy about the zsphere base, but wanted to get moving. so i'll give the hand another go, next.
i started roughing in the body. there's still a lot to fix and i'll do some of it before i'll start the retopo.
as i mentioned before. hands are next. after that i think i'll do the retopo.

like last time, i did some small previews from this session.
then there's a little line up. i actually did a few corrections to the posteur after i did the character strip.

hope you like him.

lastly, i'm debateing with myself, wether or not to make him look a little younger. like he does in the concept. what's your thoughts?






-r

[gregoconn]

This one is looking great so far. If you continue working at this standard through the whole project I'm sure you'll get a really nice finish at the end!

Keep it up.

[DAnconia]

seems like his neck is a bit too long. You could also bring his traps down as well. His shoulders seem to be slooping down. On the male figure the collarbone is straight across or in a slight v shape. It kind of gives him an older aged feeling. The face seems quite old as well. The more lines on the face the older the character.


Keep up the good work.

[selwy]

great work so far!!

[Hamilcar]

very nice sculpt! great work. as to your question, imho I would make him look a bit younger like the concept, because of his powers he should look younger than his age, this guy looks about 60-65.

[SolidSnakexxx]

Love the sculpt so far. The anatomy of this character's impressive!

[canndis]

nice work, like the facial features and the anatomy