Vampire armor - nicking ideas

From 'Underworld;Rise of the Lycans' and if you haven't seen this you sould, expeciallyif you don't like the sparkaly fairy edwood... discrace of a vampire... Viktor is soooooooo much better and played by one of my favourite all time actors Bill Nighy... I'll watch anything if he's in it.

Found this somewhere I quite like the way its done, exept the execive cuttingof the edges... and the doodles of the skulls.

A little much on the abs but I wanted to see the over all bace shape. Very shiney too.

Ecessive but some shapes in the armor I like.

Adam Adamowicz

Copic marker pens... I will figure out how to use them.

Not too sure why this showed up when I typed in armor but I like the impressionist feel to it.

Possibly usefull for elf armor

Lord of the rings 3: used the interlocking idea for my vampires.

 This is from World of Warcraft - its a death knight, but i'm using it for the armor on the horses.

 

FOr idea's abou leather... not that this armor would be very usefull but it does give me idea's for the womans armor - they're not alowed in the direct firing line so don't need proper body armor.

this is for decoration on the Kings armor

Film Armor

http://www.hotmovieprops.com/kingdom-of-heaven-c-332.html  - great for seeing what th swords and armor looked like in fantasy (and non fantasy) films :) means I can appropriate some idea's.

Adam Adamowicz

Adam Adamowicz is an awsome guy to use for armor designs and architecture he's done work for skr

yrim, Fallout and Oblivion Dcl and I really like the style he works in. its very loose and sketchy at times.

Book cover making

Chip Kid: designing a book is no laughing matter. ok it is.

Its a good talk about book cover making.

Aaron Sims - consept artist

Aaron Sims has been in the film industry for over 23 years specializing in character design for films. His credits include Men in Black, A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Constantine, War of the Worlds; and most recently I Am Legend, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, The Golden Compass, The Incredible Hulk, The Mummy 3, and The Day The Earth Stood Still. Aaron began his career in Makeup Effects, designing and creating characters. His life-long experience with the visual arts – drawing, painting, sculpting, airbrushing – provided the foundation for the early part of his career. Once the technology was available, he quickly learned Photoshop and many other 3D design/animation programs, progressing into Visual Effects. Now, his years of experience with these mediums have helped hone his own specialized approach to character design. He has worked for two Academy Award-winning Makeup Effects houses: Rick Baker’s Cinovation and Stan Winston Studio. Working as Winston’s Art Director for both the Makeup Effects and Visual Effects departments helped to prepare him for founding The Aaron Sims Company.

Find more on him Here

http://www.designyourway.net/blog/inspiration/digital-art/aaron-sims-character-and-production-design/

and

http://topdesignersgallery.com/3d/aaron-sims/
And
http://www.theaaronsimscompany.com/

I think his work is amazing, and my skills on photoshop are nothing compaire to this guy's. I love the detail, colours and style. I wish I was this good.

Vampire - I really like the eyes they seem to be able to see right into you and hold that creepy, wierdness that I like. The hair is just amazing I would have gotten compleatly fed up with it but i think the blood thing is abit over the top.

There is no research perose for this but my god its adorable! Just the detail and those blue eyes.... I want the monkey.

Just really like this image. It is a standered alien, but i think it was for men in black so that explains that. Again its the detail I like.

A classic fantacy scene. I thought I liked it better a couple mins ago but now I don;t know what to say...

I like how gross but regal it looks.

Possible research for my goat people... althouth I wasn't going to do then quite as hairy.

Creature Creation research

Found this post http://characterdesignnotes.blogspot.com/search/label/Proportions , I really like the ides of just using the silouets to be able to create creatures quickly and effecttively. I think I might try it on some of m worlds more smaller creatures to see how it really works and if it works well for me. thoight I'd share it though.

More Fishies

more research on underwater:
Mike Degruy: hooked by octopus
Edith Widder: Glowing life in an underwater world

And

http://www.ted.com/search?q=underwater

Just getting some understanding on underwater life and backgroud idea's. Its all very interesting.