Sculpture Project

 

We have been assigned a project to design our own faces to look like a zombie version. This will involve us having our photo's taken, then we will convert to Photoshop and edit our faces with burn and dodge tools whilst blending cutouts of zombie images from the internet. Once this is done, we will be transferring to a clay type material and creating a physical model from the zombie reference picture we made on Photoshop. Once this is completed, we shall be using the refence picture, and our physical model to create another head model on a program called ZBrush.

 

 

The Camera and Photoshop

 

So we have had all of our pictures taken and this is what mine turned out to be...

Front



Side



Perspective

These will be my starting point pictures, I will crop them down as I won't need the excess space and the shadow, and I will have to allign them into orthographic set so I don't create the zombie effects a little offset on another image.

 

This is my orthographic guidlines picture. I had to line up ll of the pictures with each other. In this I had to place straight horizontal lines through all of the main features of my face; Chin, nose, bottom of the ear, top of the ear, start of my fauxhawk, and the tip of my fauxhawk. This assures me that I will not get any mess ups when I start to allign facial tearing or missing organs between each picture.

 

This is the start of my editing. I have began to make a rough blend of deep bags under my eyes and some markings on my face. I have also toned down the enture colour depth to give all of my skin a more undead grey colour.

 

 

Now I've began adding more decay markings across my face. I have also recoloured my lips to look like they have lost colour due to death and I've removed my left eyebrow. As daft as it looks right now, I've found a great picture that I find that removing the eyebrow will provide a better outcome from my next edit.

 

This is the reason for removing the eyebrow, I have added in an image from a zombie I found with his eye missing. While it is quite blatand right now it is a seperate picture placed on my face, I will start editing the colors and blend it on. I have also added on some scratch marks to the side of my face.

I have edited the colour again to make myself whiter, I have also blended the pictures I added, whilst the addition of my neck piece. Now the eye looks more appropriate and the side of my face has been blended to look like dirt, or possibly scratches to the face.

These are some quick adjustments I made. the neck and the eye looked a little flat, so I adjusted the colours and contrast to give it a slight bump map to bring out the details in the eye arch and also in the neck foldings.

 

I've finally got to changing the hair correctly. And my beard is no longer a ginger colour. I have a more dead looking feel now and I have once again toned down the colour of the entire picture as well. This has worked in favour to my lips as thel look like they've been in the cold hard ground for some time now.

Coming on to the end, I edited my eye to be bigger and my pupil to be extremely dilated. I also splashed in some quick red lines to make my eye look as though it had become blood shot.

Creating a quick change from merging all of the images together and then adjusting it to black and white, I have a greyscale image of my zombie self and I can now make the final adjustment of bump mapping the final product and I can say that I am finished with the Photoshop stage.

The Final Piece.