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Long time no wip... Skeletor.

Looking great! Love the super high detail of the skull, but also the direction of the forms on the torso. Every update so far has been right on the money! Keep up the great work

Finally Skeletor made to look like a bad ass! Loving everything so far. Glad you didn’t overdue the muscles. I always hated that in the cartoon and action figures back in the day.

looks great - new details are major eye candy :cool:
I quite prefer the blue on black style of the first render on p.2 -
it’s much easier on the eyes than gray on white-conveys better
the ‘spirit’ of the design as well. anyway, sick, it rocks, kudos~

I was able to get some work done this weekend. Not too much Zbrushing, just a bit on the cape, belt and beneath the chest strap… otherwise it was more design render and regular polymodeling work. Starting to come together I think… however armor and such isn’t really my strong suit, if anyone has any suggestions on his costume, the armor, etc I would love to hear it… I have tons of reference, and I don’t care for the toy version of the armor, I want it to have a medieval yet modern and functional feel… so let the suggestions fly, anything goes.

I have some legs roughed out, but I’ll wait until I have some more time with them before including them in a render.

Thanks again to all who have posted!

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wow…that is sweet. great job on the armor.

Great model thus far! I’m seeing some chainmail and some wicked boot that would make Gene Simmons jealous. Can’t wait to see more!

youre doing a great job. the realism with the skull and other parts is really good. i think his head is too small though. actually, i dont think. it could probobly be 3 4ths larger. proportion of head to body is always hard to see when youve been staring at a model for so long. i always fudge it up. then dont realise it until i come back to it a week later.

cool! love the skin and skull! very realistic :stuck_out_tongue:

The hands are flawless. Great shapes and proportions. The only problem i have are with his spiked links. He will never be able to cross his arms or even put them down. They are super cool. Maybe around his legs or something or ankles. But in the torso it sort of bothers me. Keep up the good work. Cant wait to see it textured and posed. If you are gonna do a sword, would you please give a detailed WIP on that. I have not been able to create one to my satisfaction.

Hey thanks man! I agree, the skull is a bit small anatomically, on one hand I like the off kilter proportion, but on the other, yeah, it may be a bit small… I’ll see how he looks with it a bit closer to “real” size.

The hands are flawless. Great shapes and proportions. The only problem i have are with his spiked links. He will never be able to cross his arms or even put them down. They are super cool. Maybe around his legs or something or ankles. But in the torso it sort of bothers me. Keep up the good work. Cant wait to see it textured and posed. If you are gonna do a sword, would you please give a detailed WIP on that. I have not been able to create one to my satisfaction.

Hey thanks a lot for the comments!
I think the spiked links are ok, he will be able to rest his arms down and even cross his arms, but obviously he would have to do so carefully :smiley:

As for as the sword, yeah, I’m not sure, either a huge blade, ala Cloud from Final Fantasy, with a good skeletor twist (Im not a fan of the design of the sword that the he-man and skeletor toys had), or a big goat/sheep skull staff. I’ll certainly include either (or both?) in upcoming WIPs.

I sure wish I had more time to work on this guy. I think he is coming along great, but work is busy, so I just have to keep chipping away little by little.

Thanks again to all who have posted, I appreciate all the feedback and comments.

This is looking awesome, can’t wait to see it finished!

Please finish it…
Can’t wait for the final one, looks creepy…!!!

Been keeping up with this project since last June or something like that - can’t wait to see if finished:).

Oh, by the way, I would value your critiques … unlike some threads where I have read your crits that were not received, heh.

Thumbs up man - looking forward :+1:

Wow, I can’t believe how long ago I started this almost a year and nowhere near complete… I wish I had more time for personal Zbrushing!

Well Skeletor has come along a bit, but I’ll post an update to him this weekend, for now here are the beginnings of his scepter, hope you enjoy

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Beautiful - my only critique would be that some of the ridges in the horns seem too uniform. Posted a few reference images to compare. The thickness should vary more I am thinking. The rings are similar to growth rings on a tree where harsh seasons will cause some to be thinner than others - and some are so tight and then worn they seem to be a larger and fatter ring altogether and being on a scull, I just naturally associate it with worn and sun bleached - very minor critique, but your work is so nice it deserves such attention - beautiful work:).

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Hey man, thanks for taking your time to crit, and great observations on the horns. I appreciate it, you’re right about how they grow, and my “ridges” are pretty uniform in width.

I also should put some more of that wave like irregularity in them as well.
Thanks for pointing that out. This guy has been my main reference image,

http://www.texas-hunts.com/Corsican%20Ram%201%20silver%20medal.JPG

though I have lots of others, yours point out well whats going on with the horns.:+1:

Really nice work on the shapes, love the detail aswell. Grew up with He-Man, had some of the action figures, even the big cat, great memories. Will follow your work, keep it up! /Cheers.

Waw its gonna be amazing!

The head feels really too small to be, but except that, its freakin cool already…

This is great work man, I love what you did with the character, hope you have a lot of good luck!!
Also, what mat caps did you use??? would love to get some of them :stuck_out_tongue:

Great work! Your detailing is amazing. I can’t wait to see the final…I’ve been following this one for a LONG time