Character - Captain Kirk

I've been trying my hand at some character modeling lately, and in response to a discussion at my forum over on TrekBBS, I decided to take a shot at modeling Captain Kirk as he appeared in the Original Series. This was attempt #1:



Not bad, but not great either. A lot of the details were off and the eyes were just plain terrible. I decided to set up some front and side reference pics I obtained from screen captures and went for attempt #2:



Now it seemed like ol' Jimmy boy was starting to come together. Just for kicks, though, I decided to map my front reference pic right on to the model:




Yeah, baby! Yeah!

Obviously, I don't have a decent hair plug-in and I haven't had the nerve to tackle his ears yet, but I'm getting there.

[General Phoenix]

Friggin' A, man!

Excellent work on the new version...

[Red_ufo]

I think your character modelling is excellent, but a question how do you start an ear?

Originally posted by Red_ufo
...but a question how do you start an ear?

Hell if I know. I'm making this up as I go along.

Looks like you've captured his essence Vektor, now you just have to fill in the details

I think this will about do it for his face.



Now to add his ears, some decent eyes, teeth and gums, and then figure out a way to do his hair properly.

It is amazing how much this looks like the real Shatner.

About the hair: Maybe you could ask Shatner if he would let you have a look at his wig. ; )

[seanr]

ROTFLMFAO

[seanr]

That is an incredible likeness, BTW. Nice work.

Awesome work, man. Awesome.

[meshula]

Here's some cool tutes on building heads, with steps for building ears. Enjoy!

http://www.highend3d.com/global/tutorials/subdmodel/
http://cal.jmu.edu/ratner/tutorials/1/
http://coldfusion.art.msstate.edu/ca.../thehumanhead/