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Ritz
28-10-2007, 09:37 PM
hey Guys finally i decided wht i be doing in this challenge ...after all the clarification abt the concept n all...i decided to work on a character which is frm our own existing Mythology....but no one or i say 99% of us never heard abt ...but after doing sme research on mythology i found sme thing abt this character .......so here is the story ...name n concept of my character

name---- BARBARIKA.(the asura warrior)

story...

The saga of Barbarika begins with the Mahabharata. Barbarika was a grandson of Bhima, Second of the Pandava brothers. He was the son of Ghatotkacha, son of Bhima, by his wife Nagakanya Ahilawati. Even in his childhood, Barbarika was very brave warrior. mother. Shiva, pleased with him, gave him the three infallible arrows (Teen Baan). Hence, Barbarika came to be known by the appellation Teen Baandhaari, the 'Bearer of Three Arrows.' Later, Agni (the God of Fire) gave him the Bow that would make him victorious in the three worlds.

When Barbarika learnt that battle between the Pandavas and the Kauravas had become inevitable, he wanted to witness what was to be the Mahabharata War. He promised his mother that if he felt the urge to participate in the battle, he would join the side which would be losing. He rode to the field on his Blue Horse (Neela Ghoda) equipped with his three arrows and bow.

The omnipresent Krishna, disguised as a Brahmin, stopped Barbarika to examine his strength. He baited Barbarika by mocking him for going to the great battle with only three arrows. On this, Barbarika replied that a single arrow was enough to destroy all his opponents in the war, and it would then return to his quiver. If all the three were used, it would create havoc in the three worlds. Krishna challenged him to tie all the leaves of the peepal tree under which he was standing, with one arrow. Barbarika accepted the challenge, removed one arrow from his quiver and released it from his bow. The arrow tied all the leaves together within moments. However, Krishna had held one leaf under his foot, and the arrow started revolving around it.

The Brahmin (Krishna) then sought charity from the warrior. Barbarika promised him anything he wished. Krishna asked him to give his head in charity. Barbarika was shocked. Perceiving that all was not as it appeared, he requested the Brahmin to disclose his real identity. Krishna showed Barbarika a vision of His Divine Form and Barbarika was thus graced. In fulfilment of his promise, and in compliance with the Lord's command, Barbarika gave his head to Krishna in charity.

Concept....

so it was a very long story i had written but it is really amazing...i u allwill read this story first..so here is my concept..i will be modeling BARBARIKA sitting on a big heavy throw wearing sme gud jwells ...a big crown....n with him there will be his TEEN BAAN....giftd frm LORD SHIVA...n BOW from AGNI DEV....now i must tell one more thing tht is why i have chosen this character only bcuse i have never seen or heard abt this charcter n now i can easly play with his looks n structure the elements which i written in my research i got it only in the written format only i can set up the style of the BOW ..n THREE ARROWS ...


Hope u guys like it...will post the wips soon

thomasphoenix
28-10-2007, 10:29 PM
Wonderful Character! very suited for a heroic sculpture!

Ekalavya
29-10-2007, 10:19 AM
Very nice idea :clap: :clap: :clap: and yeah I also havnt heard of this character !!! Will he be very big like Bhima or else ????

Best of luck !!!!

dropdeadfriend
29-10-2007, 12:53 PM
ritz it sounds interesting. eager to see the output.
All the best !!!

Ritz
29-10-2007, 06:21 PM
thanx Eklavya n dropdeadfriend for liking the Idea ..@eklavya ya man its true even i havnt heard abt this character before....n as u are asking abt his looks,at first i was also confused abt this ..i was thinking ,shuld i make it macho n more hero looking then after tht i realized tht he is ASURA n i shuld maek him look like a Asura ...he will be big like bhima but with some extra fat also....he will be healty but nt muscular.....

hope i will complete this .....

Crunk
29-10-2007, 06:52 PM
hmm.. intresting character, hpe to see more of the visual concept soon. there are many things one can imagine from writing, until one puts a face to them.. :)

Digital3d
31-10-2007, 10:57 PM
Hi Ritz
Nice Story.....
so this time you are planing to do sculpting ;) Nice dude...
Which software do you use for sculpting?

Ritz
02-11-2007, 06:24 PM
hey digita3D thanx for liking the story ..ya finally i will be doing sme sculpting thing.....which i have never done before..@software....as i have started working in Zbrush n mudbox....but i like zbrush more n i think i will be using zbrush....but will be doing the base model in max

Ritz
06-11-2007, 07:41 PM
hey tantrics ......

here is concept art of BOW for Barbarika.....i finally mamage to do some concept art drawing in photoshop n manage to do some colors also....hope u will like it

n one more thing in my earler story discription i wrote tht Barbarika was a ASURA. but after some more research i cme to know tht he was nt a Asura....he was a YAKSHA (Elves in Hindu mythology) so now i be modeling him as a Yaksha only...will post the WIPs soon....but for now here is the concept for his BOW....which Indra gave him......

hells angel
07-11-2007, 10:23 AM
interesting concept.....would be nice if u didnt stick to the gold and jewels cliche!:)......waitin to see the character design:)

Deepam
07-11-2007, 11:42 AM
Hi Ritz !!!!!!!!!

nice concept to work on.

why you r working on colors, coz it is not needed

But anyway, it will be so nice to see how you design the character.

Ritz
07-11-2007, 05:07 PM
thanx Vivek n DeepamtheTantrik for liking the concept....@vivek m using the jwels ,bcuse thsi bow is nt a ordinary bow INDRA (king of all gods) has given this very special bow to BARBARIKA so i tought the if sme one like a king has a bow it shuld be well decorated n expensive looking thing.....n as far my character design is concern ...as right now i haent drwn it but its in my mind n m afraid i will nt be able to draw it...but will post the wips soon when i be starting with it ...
@deepam i done teh coloring thing just for fun ......

Ritz
08-11-2007, 03:56 PM
Hi guys....

here is my latest post to this thread..i have completed the bow ...this will be my official first model doen i Zbrush..hope u guys wil like it n after this now i be starting with the character face n body.....

dropdeadfriend
08-11-2007, 04:03 PM
thats cool RITZ,
i hope the character gets as good as this peice.
very artistic. ::clap::

ghonma
08-11-2007, 05:17 PM
Very beautiful work on the bow... cant wait to see what you do with the rest of the character !

vaibhav
09-11-2007, 09:06 PM
Ya, wonderful work, so far so good, eagerly waiting to c the character.

Digital3d
12-11-2007, 09:33 AM
Hey dude

Nice update...
Actually I also have to make a bow for Lord Ram...
So that is helpful to me to see your nice bow ;) I will grab your Idea of bow to my concept :P hehhehe

Don't worry dude you have done good details in zbrush.....

And I will model my Bow with different concept...
You know these days in my dreams I see many types of Bow for Lord Ram :) Because I am worry about the final concept for Bow.....
I haven't decide which one is the best .. I have many concepts req Lord Ram Bow.....

Let's see after completing the body...

Nice work dude...