- Mountain Troll - ( work in Progress )

[Grugi]

I started to work on this guy some while ago and I thought, now with the new zbrush, it´s time to improve and finish him.

I was inspired by a picture from the mountain troll in one of the Harry Potter films. I don´t want to create an exact copy of the original, so I will change maybe some parts here and there. The body is just blocked out for now, after I´ve refined the hands and feet I want to pose him for a more lively look and then work more on the body. []

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[Point]

great subject looking foward to where you go with this.

[Grugi]

Thank you Point!

Still looking for interesting proportions,but maybe it´s out of balance at the moment.

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[Bas_Mazur]

Looks great, waiting for the details!

[Grugi]

Thanks Bas

[Wim]

Indeed you can use intresting proporsions here. Bigger feet are nice. But if you look at the head its really small. The size between the is a bit to big I think. The hands are ok.

[sadicus]

I like the proportions , and the face structure.
I was just discussing bodybuilding with a friend the other day and mentioned about how large the body can get but the head will stay the same size.

nice work

[Grugi]

Yes, the head is very small in relation to the rest of the body but I think it fits well to the character, don´t you think?, I´m open for suggestions.

[Grugi]

Working more on the shape of the body

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[Quester99]

I love your render at the first post. Was it a ZBrush render? I think that the head is fine with him; he’s a giant. He is like eight or nine heads tall, which is why his head is so small. Maybe it could be wider, though? I dunno, just thinking while typing :lol: His belly looks weird, why is it that it looks like that? You using a reference?

[Grugi]

Thanks Quester, the render was just a quick test in MentalRay. Still have to figure out how it works, because I think I can get better results with a real renderer.
Umm, about the belly, I used some reference. But I agree that there is something strange about it. I´m still not sure about the design choices, maybe it´s the neck area, or the way the head connects to the neck, which doesn´t work well together.

[Quester99]

Maybe he needs a lower neck? I dunno. ZBrush is good for playing around with proportions. You say a quick render in mental ray. U used maya or max or something? I like the render I’m not the best renderer…er

[Grugi]

the render was done in max. I´ve used the fast skin material with low reflectivity and some stronger at the edges. Final Gather was on.For lighting, I´ve just used one area light. the rest is coming from reflecting a simple gradient in the environment slot. I´m not very good in rendering, too, but I want to give it a try for the troll

[Point]

I think the proportions, combined with the vacant expression, show that a small brain is in control of a large body, and you would loose that if you played around with the tall triangular silouette.

[Lucky_1]

He’s coming along nicely Grugi,
keep it up.

[Grugi]

thank you Lucky_1

Some more angles of the head, this time with eyes and teeth for the poor guy

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[sasquatchpoacher]

good start. have to keep my eye on this thread.