Elder Scrolls Skyrim Morokei Dragon Priest mask

Yodajammies

I just beat one of these jerks in game the other day, and it wasn't enough to kill him and loot his body virtually; I wanted his head on my WALL. So I whipped up a quick 3d model, played around with milling clay on our 5-axis machine at work, and came up with this. It was an exercise to see if you could actually mill sculpting clay, which incidentally you cannot. The detail really didn't come through, but being able to change the scale of your part after you've already cut it once was pretty cool.

I'll have the scrap molded cast done tomorrow, and *fingers crossed* the final mold done on tuesday. Then on to cold casting!









Scrap cast.


Here's a quick clip of the milling process. ROBITS! 5-axis clay milling the Skyrim DragonPriest - YouTube

Uopap

Very cool, I'm playing right now and have this mask.

Sandman0077

Very cool. What if you used dry clay for the milling? Then you could touch up with more clay. Idk I've never milled or used clay so just a blind idea.

infymys

I could have made one of these. But, I took an arrow to the knee.

PoopaPapaPalps

Damn, I've got about three in my collection (the masks, that is) and I've been meaning to make one of these masks since I've got my first one in-game. Beat me to it!

loco lord

love the idea! got the krossis one in game. Was thinking on maby starting with a horned iron helmet or something from the game. like the one he got in the trailer. Cant wait to see the finished result!

Yodajammies

+1


Dry clay? I'm not sure what you mean by that....

The stuff I used was Chavant NSP-Med. It was a test to see if we can use sculpting clay on the mill rather than clay that are specifically designed for milling. If we can get decent results with sclupting clay, the mold shop has a MUCH easier time of cleaning up / making changes to the model after the fact.

I think for the next test I'll try NSP hard and drop the buck into the freezer for a couple hours to harden it up.

aron42486

Was the friction from the milling causing the clay to melt? Hard is some pretty tough stuff but i guess if it heats up enough itll melt just the same. The freezer idea might work though, definitely worth a shot

StewYZF750

Wow, that mill looks like a great way to create new pieces - if you have access to one.

Ilikeyellow

Looks good. The freezer is a good idea, would be very good if you got it to work.

Escapay

This is great. I was wondering when the skyrim stuff would start popping up. Excellent work!

oculus1857

Love it!!

Peep Williams

Oh man, the minute i got one in game I wanted to make one for real also! I was thinking it would be awesome to have the wooden one, but I'd want to go a different route, I was thinking it wouldnt be too bad to create a rough shape with pepakura, and then go from there with bondo/clay for details and make a cast... I've never cast anything before though haha so I probably won't ever make it myself.
Fantastic job!

Jawa Lunk

Nice! I have made a ton of props from different games, and I have been looking at quite a few things from Skyrim to build...I have thought about building a mask as well, but with my wife and I just purchasing a new abode, it will be next year before my shop is done, grrrrr...so you guys have to build stuff for me until I can build again...LOL

Yodajammies

^^ Do it man! Pep can be a powerful tool in your arsenal. It's a fairly simple/small shape that would be modestly simple to paper fold.

Snxi

Looks very nice!

GOING SOLO

LOVE IT!

Peep Williams

I grabbed a bunch of screenshots for reference, you probably don't need them, but I thought it might be cool.

TheValeyard

I have this mask on my Skyrim character right now. Yours looks great!

Yodajammies

Ah thanks peep! These would have come in handy while making the 3d model.

JEEZ, just finish already! I've got some minor clean up to do in all the nooks and crannies with this scrap cast, but it's nearly there. With a slick paintjob, I can imagine these would go unnoticed, but that's the bane of one who is OCD.

If anyone wants to sign up as my personal motivator - sending me hate mail and threats of violence if I don't finish my work on time, I'm now taking applications.

Peep Williams

that looks awesome!
I honestly can't wait to see it finished up!

DAHLBERG

Looks really good! Have been searching the whole web for a pepakurafile for this... Since I couldn't find one I'm making my own But I've never made a pepfile from a model before so it's a little trial and error... Also when I make 3Dmodels I tend to use to many polys :S This time I've tried to keep them low... Still I'ts to many.

Here's the model smoothed with nurbs (the one for pepakura is lowpoly ofc). I used Cinema 4D

I have to learn how to use hypernurbs properly, but I think this will do for a preview

Oh! I have to make a lot of adjustments now when Peep Williams uploaded really good reference pics! I made this one with just the frontpic and a little from memory :S

Yodajammies

hey that looks great!

If I could give some critique - I'd adjust angle on the eye slits to soften his expression. This character looks more mornful than angry. I picture them more as these burnt out husks of their former selves, kind of like the Nazgul from LOTR. Their masks in turn reflect a sort of despair that also borders on creepy and omnious, rather than angry or wrathful.

PoopaPapaPalps

I've been working on Dragon Priest mask, myself, and for not having sculpted anything for a while, I'm pretty proud of how clean it came out. If I can grab a better camera than the one I've got laying around, I'll put up pics if I can.

lukel4

this looks fantastic. i havent got one in game yet but am still wanting to make a real one!