UPDATE: (15-Feb-2015) I have uploaded a breakdown of the construction process here
I had some research time this week so I decided to have a look at the various Amarna sculptures as a prelude to modelling some for the city. My hope is that I can model the remains and then look at restoring them to their former glory and site them in their corresponding locations. My first model has been the bust of Nefertiti, mainly as a test piece. I wanted to recreate it as real as possible and used a number of methods to achieve this. I have seen many recreations on-line and none of them seem to do it justice so I decided to gather as many source images as possible in order to get all the angles covered.
There are a lot of images which can be expected when the bust is one of the most copied of all Ancient Egyptian artefacts. Sifting through them showed that some were flipped images and some were very good museum copies.
I used a combination of techniques to speed up the process and the results can be seen below. When I get more time I will likely update this post with a better breakdown of the various modelling stages. The next model will be one of the Ahkenaten statues which if all goes well will be ready in a week or so. There are still some tweaks which need to be done particularly the base of the nose as this needs to have some sharper edges. In general though this was a good reconstruction which pretty closely matches the original in form.
A few tweaks still need to be made before I would say it is complete.
- The underside of the nose needs sharpening as already mentioned.
- The ears need to have their backs modelled more accurately.
- The top texture is quite low resolution and needs to have better resource photographs to work from. This will need to wait until I can source some.
- The back texture of the shoulder area on the right side needs more work, again I need better images.
I’ve been reading the Evil Spirit out of the West and Season of the Hyaena. Both are Excellent~! Your blog is a great companion to those books. Thank you for posting.
I am totally amazed at your fantastic artwork. I also model no 3D only that using a different software and I fell in love with your 3D Nefertiti OMG!
This is my Deviantart account http://luna-fantasma.deviantart.com
A 3D render of my original character http://luna-fantasma.deviantart.com/art/Mystic-Pharaoh-ancient-Egypt-by-Luna-Fantasma-573714277
Thanks Erika. I had a look at your artwork and you have some lovely material there. All the best, Paul.