sagiarts
10-11-2007, 08:46 PM
Ravana –The demise of Meghnad
The concept
Its one of the most important part of Ramayana, as well as Bengali literature. Ravana though the villain in Ramayana was a great loving father. He was deeply hurt when his loving son Meghnad (Megh-cloud +Nad-roar =Meghnad-the roar of cloud) was killed by Ram .Ravana who was also known as Dashanan (dash-Ten + Anan-Face = Man with ten faces) expressed his emotion through his ten faces, which portrayed different emotion of utter sorrow ,like anger, frustration ,pain, madness etc. Poet Michele Madhusudan Dutta has artistically captured all this great emotional empathy in his famous creation of literature ‘Meghnad Badh’ Kavyagrantha.
Now my concept is to portray the same emotion through my digital sculpture. I know it’s a very ,very tough job but I couldn’t resist myself when last night this idea hit my mind.I did a rough and quick concept sketch of that:
http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa37/sagiarts/upload-1.jpg
http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa37/sagiarts/upload2-1.jpg
Beside this huge task I am getting very short time because I will be out for my vacation on 23rd of Nov so in my case the deadline is just 12-13 days .I don’t know whether I can finish this or not or I even don’t know what will be the quality of the sculpture ,but am sure that I will be definitely enjoying this roller coaster ride of this sculpting challenge.
Best of luck for all the competitors and I hope the same from them.
The schedule
Date Work Target
10/11/2007 Making the base mesh and finalizing proportion
11/11/2007 Making the test pose and checking the all the technicalities
like UV normals symmetry etc
12/11/2007 Bringing model in ZBrush and doing a rough sculpt just to get
the form and posing it properly
13/11/2007 Finalizing the base sculpt
14/11/2007 Working on level 2 detail
15/11/2007 Working on level 4 detail
16/11/2007 Working on level 4 detail
17/11/2007 Working on final level of detail
18/11/2007 Finishing off the sculpt
19/11/2007 Doing modification for final look and feel
20/11/2007 Setting up the light material bringing out the light passes
21/11/2007 Any final correction needed
22/11/2007 Compositing the passes and preparing the final presentation
images
NB : Due to sheer shortage of time I have also thought for a backup plan that I will be replacing the fullbody of Meghnad only with his head from his beheaded body.
The system
Dual Core AMD Athlon X2
Nvidia GT 7300
2 GB RAM
14 inch crt monitor
And a plastic wrapped keyboard (this info was for my very few too curious friends).
Okkkkkkkkkkkk so lets jump in business !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The concept
Its one of the most important part of Ramayana, as well as Bengali literature. Ravana though the villain in Ramayana was a great loving father. He was deeply hurt when his loving son Meghnad (Megh-cloud +Nad-roar =Meghnad-the roar of cloud) was killed by Ram .Ravana who was also known as Dashanan (dash-Ten + Anan-Face = Man with ten faces) expressed his emotion through his ten faces, which portrayed different emotion of utter sorrow ,like anger, frustration ,pain, madness etc. Poet Michele Madhusudan Dutta has artistically captured all this great emotional empathy in his famous creation of literature ‘Meghnad Badh’ Kavyagrantha.
Now my concept is to portray the same emotion through my digital sculpture. I know it’s a very ,very tough job but I couldn’t resist myself when last night this idea hit my mind.I did a rough and quick concept sketch of that:
http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa37/sagiarts/upload-1.jpg
http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa37/sagiarts/upload2-1.jpg
Beside this huge task I am getting very short time because I will be out for my vacation on 23rd of Nov so in my case the deadline is just 12-13 days .I don’t know whether I can finish this or not or I even don’t know what will be the quality of the sculpture ,but am sure that I will be definitely enjoying this roller coaster ride of this sculpting challenge.
Best of luck for all the competitors and I hope the same from them.
The schedule
Date Work Target
10/11/2007 Making the base mesh and finalizing proportion
11/11/2007 Making the test pose and checking the all the technicalities
like UV normals symmetry etc
12/11/2007 Bringing model in ZBrush and doing a rough sculpt just to get
the form and posing it properly
13/11/2007 Finalizing the base sculpt
14/11/2007 Working on level 2 detail
15/11/2007 Working on level 4 detail
16/11/2007 Working on level 4 detail
17/11/2007 Working on final level of detail
18/11/2007 Finishing off the sculpt
19/11/2007 Doing modification for final look and feel
20/11/2007 Setting up the light material bringing out the light passes
21/11/2007 Any final correction needed
22/11/2007 Compositing the passes and preparing the final presentation
images
NB : Due to sheer shortage of time I have also thought for a backup plan that I will be replacing the fullbody of Meghnad only with his head from his beheaded body.
The system
Dual Core AMD Athlon X2
Nvidia GT 7300
2 GB RAM
14 inch crt monitor
And a plastic wrapped keyboard (this info was for my very few too curious friends).
Okkkkkkkkkkkk so lets jump in business !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!