hells angel
22-02-2005, 07:11 AM
hey guys..didnt wanna bounce the old thread from last year..so thought i'd make a fresh post on this..
i wasnt happy with my rendering of him last yr and always wanted to
rework the model ad texture...finally found the time to do so......
done in max7.....rendered in scanline....nuthin fancy...no advanced lighting.......
will post any references or WIP work later(its 6am!!)........hope u like it:)
Image Edit(18/10/05)-Hadnt realised i had updated the image here
although i had touched it up months ago......not really much of a point
since things might change soon....but worth a show anyways!!http://www.cgtantra.com/forums/smileys/smiley1.gif
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/7850/hanuman15sf.jpg
http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/4158/hanuman26jv.jpg
since a lot of ppl have been askin me about the design lately.......decided to post the character design process and research in
here too...beats relinkin u guys...so here it is...the character study
on hanuman....and design workflow...
the shiv puran mostly has hanumans history and background...not much on characteristics...
the
valmiki ramayana(kishkinda kanda and sundara kanda) describes most of
hanumans characteristics with a short history comin up in the uttara
kanda.....
to be brief...it describes hanuman
as a wise ...highly knowledgeable vanar.....but his appearance
completely throws u off guard.....only when he speaks is his intellect
known to all......to add to that...hanuman was a shapeshifter to a
certain extent and hence could appear in various forms depending on the
occassion(he first apears as a brahmin to ram and lakshman......the
reason he looks brutish is for two
reasons......firstly his eyebrows....the dip in them due to constant
contemplation.........and the second due to his broken/swollen jaw(he
derives his name from this)....his jaw was broken when indra hurled his
vajra at him as a child......hanuman fell on a mountain and his left
cheek bone /jaw was broken........as far as anger and confidence is
concerned......hanuman was cursed as a child by rishis(due to bein
extremely naughty) that he
would have to be constantly reminded who he was..else he would forget
and think that hes just another ordinary vanar......thats one of the
reasons he was always in contemplation and thought......e.g. on reachin
the edge of india...he had to be reminded by jambavan who he was...only
then did he decide to take off to lanka......in contrast to
composure....before takin off he roared out into the skies threatening
all life...and said that he would go to lanka and bring sita back....or
search the heavens....or else tie up ravan and bring him to ram for an
explanation....and if none of this was to happen...would tear out lanka
itself and bring it to india.....it was this loss of memory that
usually brought a brutish persona to hanuman........
as
far as a match of strength is concerned....it was difficult to measure
his strength...coz there are various references...but for
example.....garud's strength is given as...his one feather can lift the
entire earth with all living beings and gods....and in
comparison....between a face off between hanuman and garud(much after
ramayan) hanuman is said to have wrapped garud in his tail and flung
him back all the way to vaikunth
as far as his costume is concerned...its true that u've never read
it anywhere.....coz it aint written anywhere........coz in fact...in
the valmiki ramayana...if u go by certain descriptions of hanumans
grandeur......u can come to a conclusion that he actually wore
nuthin...no clothes at all...just a girdle cloth(langot kinda
thing)..........but i tried givin him a look....coz
if u follow every little detail word to word...wheres the fun in
that???huh!!:)........then i wouldnt be actually designing the
character....just makin a picture of a story......and ofcourse ....a
lot of indians would tend to flare up!!.now lemme explain the
costume....the dhoti is standard......the gaurd on his arm is a
standard warrior costume.....a shield for the non-attacking arm....u
find it on a lot of warriors......*he belonged to a forest tribe, and
the minister to sugreeva.....therefore i tried to show his designation
and seniority by using forest artifacts.....tried feathers first...but
then moved to teeth*(This was inmy older design..u wont see it in the
above image)...coz it suited the look well....u might think this
was not suitin his behavour....but lemme correct the
misconception...that he "wasnt" a gentle giant during the
ramayana....his anger was immense during the war.....i tried to put in
the teeth to show off as trophies of demons killed by him.....(usually
this kinda system is used to show seniority in tribes.....).....and
didnt wanna add the crown...coz that was kinda cliche......the gold was
put in in a rugged and unpolished sort of way......more like raw
gold.......low on the visual arts(though hanuman was a great
musician/artist)........so thats the whole deal with the
costume..........
a
little more on the concept....i've added canines on hanuman...but
i guess no indian would accept this since they already complain on
his brutish appearance.....i've used a skull ref of the indian temple
monkey also known as the "hanuman langur".....u get a pretty fair idea
on ur standard vanar if u watch documentaries on this animal......and
i've let the bottom teeth come out cos of the swollen jaw...
as
far as the LOTR look(from a reply on an earlier thread)....just was goin through an untouched section of
the yuddha kanda in the ramayana...and gotta tell u.....readin the full
description of rama's entire army of ferocious bears and huge menacing
monkeys...the image in my head was nuthin less than LOTR..(it is
mentioned that all the generals were invincible in their own
right.....of a fairly divine nature......and were so charged up that
they wanted to take down ravans army single handedly.....some tribes
had a history of beating down and killing elephants...they had a
history of enmity).....think about it guys...http://www.cgtantra.com/forums/smileys/smiley1.gif
the concept sketch(2003)
http://www.geocities.com/keviv_98/uploads/han_sketch.jpg
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i wasnt happy with my rendering of him last yr and always wanted to
rework the model ad texture...finally found the time to do so......
done in max7.....rendered in scanline....nuthin fancy...no advanced lighting.......
will post any references or WIP work later(its 6am!!)........hope u like it:)
Image Edit(18/10/05)-Hadnt realised i had updated the image here
although i had touched it up months ago......not really much of a point
since things might change soon....but worth a show anyways!!http://www.cgtantra.com/forums/smileys/smiley1.gif
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/7850/hanuman15sf.jpg
http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/4158/hanuman26jv.jpg
since a lot of ppl have been askin me about the design lately.......decided to post the character design process and research in
here too...beats relinkin u guys...so here it is...the character study
on hanuman....and design workflow...
the shiv puran mostly has hanumans history and background...not much on characteristics...
the
valmiki ramayana(kishkinda kanda and sundara kanda) describes most of
hanumans characteristics with a short history comin up in the uttara
kanda.....
to be brief...it describes hanuman
as a wise ...highly knowledgeable vanar.....but his appearance
completely throws u off guard.....only when he speaks is his intellect
known to all......to add to that...hanuman was a shapeshifter to a
certain extent and hence could appear in various forms depending on the
occassion(he first apears as a brahmin to ram and lakshman......the
reason he looks brutish is for two
reasons......firstly his eyebrows....the dip in them due to constant
contemplation.........and the second due to his broken/swollen jaw(he
derives his name from this)....his jaw was broken when indra hurled his
vajra at him as a child......hanuman fell on a mountain and his left
cheek bone /jaw was broken........as far as anger and confidence is
concerned......hanuman was cursed as a child by rishis(due to bein
extremely naughty) that he
would have to be constantly reminded who he was..else he would forget
and think that hes just another ordinary vanar......thats one of the
reasons he was always in contemplation and thought......e.g. on reachin
the edge of india...he had to be reminded by jambavan who he was...only
then did he decide to take off to lanka......in contrast to
composure....before takin off he roared out into the skies threatening
all life...and said that he would go to lanka and bring sita back....or
search the heavens....or else tie up ravan and bring him to ram for an
explanation....and if none of this was to happen...would tear out lanka
itself and bring it to india.....it was this loss of memory that
usually brought a brutish persona to hanuman........
as
far as a match of strength is concerned....it was difficult to measure
his strength...coz there are various references...but for
example.....garud's strength is given as...his one feather can lift the
entire earth with all living beings and gods....and in
comparison....between a face off between hanuman and garud(much after
ramayan) hanuman is said to have wrapped garud in his tail and flung
him back all the way to vaikunth
as far as his costume is concerned...its true that u've never read
it anywhere.....coz it aint written anywhere........coz in fact...in
the valmiki ramayana...if u go by certain descriptions of hanumans
grandeur......u can come to a conclusion that he actually wore
nuthin...no clothes at all...just a girdle cloth(langot kinda
thing)..........but i tried givin him a look....coz
if u follow every little detail word to word...wheres the fun in
that???huh!!:)........then i wouldnt be actually designing the
character....just makin a picture of a story......and ofcourse ....a
lot of indians would tend to flare up!!.now lemme explain the
costume....the dhoti is standard......the gaurd on his arm is a
standard warrior costume.....a shield for the non-attacking arm....u
find it on a lot of warriors......*he belonged to a forest tribe, and
the minister to sugreeva.....therefore i tried to show his designation
and seniority by using forest artifacts.....tried feathers first...but
then moved to teeth*(This was inmy older design..u wont see it in the
above image)...coz it suited the look well....u might think this
was not suitin his behavour....but lemme correct the
misconception...that he "wasnt" a gentle giant during the
ramayana....his anger was immense during the war.....i tried to put in
the teeth to show off as trophies of demons killed by him.....(usually
this kinda system is used to show seniority in tribes.....).....and
didnt wanna add the crown...coz that was kinda cliche......the gold was
put in in a rugged and unpolished sort of way......more like raw
gold.......low on the visual arts(though hanuman was a great
musician/artist)........so thats the whole deal with the
costume..........
a
little more on the concept....i've added canines on hanuman...but
i guess no indian would accept this since they already complain on
his brutish appearance.....i've used a skull ref of the indian temple
monkey also known as the "hanuman langur".....u get a pretty fair idea
on ur standard vanar if u watch documentaries on this animal......and
i've let the bottom teeth come out cos of the swollen jaw...
as
far as the LOTR look(from a reply on an earlier thread)....just was goin through an untouched section of
the yuddha kanda in the ramayana...and gotta tell u.....readin the full
description of rama's entire army of ferocious bears and huge menacing
monkeys...the image in my head was nuthin less than LOTR..(it is
mentioned that all the generals were invincible in their own
right.....of a fairly divine nature......and were so charged up that
they wanted to take down ravans army single handedly.....some tribes
had a history of beating down and killing elephants...they had a
history of enmity).....think about it guys...http://www.cgtantra.com/forums/smileys/smiley1.gif
the concept sketch(2003)
http://www.geocities.com/keviv_98/uploads/han_sketch.jpg
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