Movie Mashup - Hellboy: the Golden Iron Man - thefmilyofblood

[thefmilyofblood]

Here's my entry, which will most likely remain unfinished, with two of my favorite movies: Iron Man and Hellboy. I Haven't done much work, but here's my progress so far. Feel free to criticize the s*!t outta it.

[paulius-st]

nice start. looks like this one will be a cool character. try to finish it :)
good luck :)

[chichiri]

Nice work so far, good luck.

[thefmilyofblood]

Still working on the head, I've changed some of the shapes and I'm trying to get the right feel now.

[Tarik2d]

Looking cool :) i like ur idea as well :)

[Cordero]

Nice idea! I think you should copy the props. of the original iron man helmet.

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/ironman_helmet/helmet.html

here, you just have to scroll down, and there is a great image to start with. And you can add the horns later on.

Good luck.

[thefmilyofblood]

Hmm. To be honest, I didn't really put much thought into whether it was exact. I've just been modeling it so you can obviously tell which two characters it's based off. So it looks like Iron Man, but with Hellboy proportions. Thanks for the tutorial, BTW.

I've started work on the body- the proportions are way off and it's very blocky, I'm just roughing it in for now. I'm probably also going to change the helmet a lot.

[chunkymunky]

Lol kinda looks like an Iron Bear at the moment....that's not to diss your work so far though, you're modelling is really strong and I think it's a great idea with lots and lots of potential.

[thefmilyofblood]

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[Cordero]

Since you started with the head, i think you should get the general proportions of it right, because if you size it, scale it, or widen it, the rest of the body will look odd, or out of proportion.

I know that you want to do your own thing, but you should follow the proportions of hellboy's head/ironman's head/normal human head.
Because they already look good, and pleasing for the human eye:)

[thefmilyofblood]

Added the right hand of doom, now for senor lefty.

[Tarik2d]

the body looks a bit skinny for the head

[gauravcg]

nice concept of "HELLBOYRONMAN"....but i agree with tarik also, the body looks skinny...
why dont you try to make the body like hell boy with iron man metal...just a suggestion.!
Good luck!

[thefmilyofblood]

Could anyone help me find references for the golden army soldiers? They're surprisingly hard to find.

[paulius-st]

http://www.battlegrip.com/images/news/06-09/goldsoldier_l.jpg
http://www.afhub.com/images/mezco/sdcc_2009/golden_army_soldier_1.jpg
http://img405.imageshack.us/i/hb2gasback1.png/

not that hard :P
it took me faster than a minute to find those

[thefmilyofblood]

Thanks! I tried to take screenshots of the movie on my ipod, but it's hard because they keep getting their heads blown off.

[paulius-st]

:) i-pod -" a proper hardware to take decent screenshots" :D. i use them i-gadgets just for music. thats where they are best.
your welcome. good luck on the progress. :)

[thefmilyofblood]

Workin' on a logo for it.

[Tarik2d]

Cool, looking forward to you progresing this one, Iron man is ACE!!!

[thefmilyofblood]

:D Here's my work on the golden army soldier. I'm not sure how I'm going to attach the head to the body yet.

[Tarik2d]

NICE :D looking good well done

[xxxcubanxxx]

Starting to take shape, keep it up.

[thefmilyofblood]

Figured I'd sketch out my ideas for the characters.

[Tarik2d]

COOL :) make the gun bigger :)

[thefmilyofblood]

COOL :) make the gun bigger :)

I'm probably going to do Big Babe, so don't worry.

[Tarik2d]

cool :D

[thefmilyofblood]

This gun is sweet.

[chichiri]

Nice work so far and excellent gun:haha:

[gauravcg]

Gun is gonna hurt.....
cool concept sketch! :)

[chunkymunky]

Really nice progress, that gun is sweet!

[thefmilyofblood]

If I have time, I'm thinking of making a little robotic Iron Man style Tooth Fairy.

[DaddyDoom]

Ahah awesome :D
And an Abe "Nick Fury" Sapien??

[Tarik2d]

Very cool u should defo give a few days to model and texting this little Guy up

[thefmilyofblood]

Ahah awesome :D
And an Abe "Nick Fury" Sapien??

Fury will never have been more socially awkward.

[thefmilyofblood]

Sorry I haven't done much work this week, but I've blocked out the other hand, as well as the legs. I've yet to get the proportions where I like them, right now it still looks a little weird.

[hulahuga]

Ahahahaha great stuff :).

The tooth fairy looks great btw...

[Cordero]

my thoughts on the props:
-the legs are too small.

-the hip is too wide for a man. woman have that kind of wide hip.

-the arms are too thick: they are as big as half of the chest... even hellboy
doesn't have that kind of arms.

-the eyes on the ironman helmet, and the eyes of hellboy are usually midway from top to bottom. so should your mixed head ;)

-the thumb on his right arms grows from the side of the palm: nor ironman, nor hellboy have that kind of thumb.

-the horns grows from the top of the head, like a hat. Hellboy's horns grows from his forehead.

these are the things i noticed at first, there maybe more.
just trying to help, sorry if the tone is not appropriate.

[thefmilyofblood]

Ouch, that stung. ah well, most of it is true, and are things that I was intending to change anyway. Here's my work for today, changing things around, and I worked a lot on the legs.

[thefmilyofblood]

Still working on the Golden Army soldier. I've decided to make the legs more Iron Man style than Golden Army style, to push the mashup further. Still friggin' blocky at the moment.

[Tarik2d]

are they going to be fighting? Oh its making me want to watch iron man 2 again but i cant booooo lol

[thefmilyofblood]

are they going to be fighting? Oh its making me want to watch iron man 2 again but i cant booooo lol

Of course they're going to be fighting! It just wouldn't be right if they weren't! :D

[Tarik2d]

good :) im happy about it. I am learning animation with my iron man dude, learning how to rig now :)

[thefmilyofblood]

Well, yours is coming along better than mine at the moment, can't wait to see it finished. I'll try to match up to yours... it'll be a challenge. :D

[Tarik2d]

urs is coming along nicely :) i like the golden army guy :) fight fight fight

[thefmilyofblood]

Thanks Tarik! Here's some more work on the Golden Army soldier. I'm still blocking things in, and still haven't made any hands for it.

[Tarik2d]

Cool. :) u could always give him blasters instead of hands. This Guy will look really cool posed

[thefmilyofblood]

Hmm, that's what a friend of mine suggested as well, I'm thinkin' of trying it out and seeing how it looks.

[Tarik2d]

hey, hows it going, any updates? :)

[thefmilyofblood]

Sorry I haven't posted anything in ages, I've been busy with work for school. here's some more progress on the Hellboy model.

[Tarik2d]

sweet, get some glowing eyes and chest. like the big hand

[thefmilyofblood]

Thanks. The lack of glowing eyes was just me being lazy and not bothering to make a shader. :D I'm going to work on the tail next.

[Tarik2d]

oh yeah I forgot about the tail. how are you going to texture him? you going to do a clean shinny metal like iron man? or a matt colour like hell boys skin?

[thefmilyofblood]

here's the tail. I'm probably going to use a shinier metal shader but with hellboy's skin colour. http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/4364/hellboyscreenshot14.jpg (http://img24.imageshack.us/i/hellboyscreenshot14.jpg/)

[Tarik2d]

wow, thats ace!!!!! how did you get it to follow the spline like that? took me loads of messing about to model the spine on my iron transformer

[thefmilyofblood]

what I did was I set the object so that its copies centers are on each point of the line. I messed up, though, so I had to move some of them by hand. I don't really know how to explain it any better than that.

[Tarik2d]

na thats cool :) thanks what u going to do about the textures then?

[thefmilyofblood]

I'm probably not going to UV map most of it and just use metal shaders for it. I'm thinking I might UV map the bigger pieces and to put scratches on them, but not on the smaller pieces so I can save time.
Also, the red metal is going to be a duller with a more hellboy-ish look to it, but the gold will look more like iron man metal.

[thefmilyofblood]

Here's a render of the back!
http://img806.imageshack.us/img806/1236/hellboytestrender4.jpg (http://img806.imageshack.us/i/hellboytestrender4.jpg/)

[Tarik2d]

Well done looking really good.

[thefmilyofblood]

Thanks!
I'm going to start working on the background, and getting a scene together. The final shot's going to look like this, with hellboy jumping down onto the soldier.
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/5296/hellboy2thegoldenarmy8.jpg (http://img215.imageshack.us/i/hellboy2thegoldenarmy8.jpg/)

[thefmilyofblood]

I'm not much good with interior design. especially when it involves lots of gears. Still fun, though.
http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/8384/hellboyscreenshot16.jpg (http://img189.imageshack.us/i/hellboyscreenshot16.jpg/)

[thefmilyofblood]

Trying out my scene. Doesn't look too good at the moment. Oh well.
http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/4881/background2of.jpg (http://img31.imageshack.us/i/background2of.jpg/)

[chichiri]

Great work, your model is just really cool, good luck for the background.

[thefmilyofblood]

Ahh! I'm running out of time! Here's a quick gun I whipped up for him.
http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/8852/hellboytestrender.png (http://img43.imageshack.us/i/hellboytestrender.png/)

http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/474/hellboytestrender2.png (http://img690.imageshack.us/i/hellboytestrender2.png/)

http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/9631/hellboytestrender3.png (http://img249.imageshack.us/i/hellboytestrender3.png/)

[thefmilyofblood]

Here's a very quick Prince Nuada model I made- just my other model with some changes made. http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/6265/hellboytestrender4.png (http://img194.imageshack.us/i/hellboytestrender4.png/)

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[thefmilyofblood]

Here's another test render- still looking fairly terrible at the moment. http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/2910/poserender.png (http://img189.imageshack.us/i/poserender.png/)

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[Tarik2d]

I really like the new character. There is toomuch of the same two colours. Try changing the background to darker with a variation

[chichiri]

I love your characters but I agree with Tarik2d, there's too much red and gold.

[thefmilyofblood]

Yeah, I thought so. I'm going to add some more blues and greens to the background and see how it turns out.

[thefmilyofblood]

Oh, and here's a little title I whipped up.
http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/7221/logo5j.png (http://img413.imageshack.us/i/logo5j.png/)

[thefmilyofblood]

Here's another render. I still think there's too much gold- I'll see how I can fix that.
http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/2577/finalimage.png (http://img697.imageshack.us/i/finalimage.png/)

[thefmilyofblood]

Here's my almost final final image final!
http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/2387/finalrender3.png (http://img641.imageshack.us/i/finalrender3.png/)

[eicronie]

good pose and nice dynamic picture, but to much gold for me
may be more colors?

[chichiri]

Really nice but for the gold, I agree with eicronie. I especially like the blue color.

[thefmilyofblood]

Ugh. I think getting the right amount of gold is going to be a nightmare. I've tried to tone the yellow down, but I don't think I've been that successful.

Also, thanks for the diagram showing me what colours look like. I hadn't realized they were so colourful.

[Tarik2d]

looking good :) i know what you mean about getting these colours looking good. your doing well though :)

[thefmilyofblood]

I eventually ended up just submitting my final today, I don't think I'll be able to much more work on it. Thanks for the advice and support! :D

[chris_solo]

great design!