Make a Viking Helmet ~ *** Image Heavy

~WelshBlue~ · **Posted:** Sun Sep 05, 2010 4:58 pm

We're going to be making a helmet like the one I made for here ...

Think outside the box for your textures. Pretty realistic results can happen with the right textures and playing with Blend Modes

Plug-Ins Needed: Bevel Selection Tube Oblique Mirror Over Line Shape3D

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With thanks to ASH for the Mirror ove Line idea ... Click

Enjoy and don't be afraid to experiment by doing things differently, adding things

Sarkut · **Posted:** Sun Sep 05, 2010 6:47 pm

Neat!

Welsh-Blue · **Posted:** Mon Sep 06, 2010 7:55 am

This is really cool.

I much prefer your headband to mine

Thanks for the metal tip, that'll come in really handy

Goonfella · **Posted:** Mon Sep 06, 2010 10:21 am

Great tut Welshy. Here`s my go. I used an eggshell texture on the horns (very subtle) and tried to get the colour looking as boney as poss. -

edit - aaargh - jaggies where the horn slots in! Forgot to use AA to smooth them out. :roll:

Sarkut · **Posted:** Mon Sep 06, 2010 6:54 pm

Cursed jaggies!
Goonfella, have you abandoned Alpha Masking?

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~WelshBlue~,

For the headband, a duplicate layer had a red Multiply merged onto pre-Shape3D band.

Then, Conditional Hue/Saturation Horizontal Fade.

Duplicate layer, make bottom layer black-and-white.

Duplicate B&W layer, with one set to Multiply, one to Additive,
so that the opacity for the bright and dark could be adjusted separately.

The full-color Horizontal Fade layer at the top of the stack was set to Color Burn with low opacity.

~WelshBlue~ · **Posted:** Mon Sep 06, 2010 7:12 pm

Very nice Goon. Good idea giving the horns more of a tan colour.
I was going to do something like that, but I always think a more 'basic' tut gets more exploration ... and that's shown in the 3 excellent images yourself, Sarkut and Olav have made. All so very different.

A pleasure to spend the time writing it for 3 excellent responses.

@ Sarkut ... Alpha Masking ... I've never, ever used it.
2 years later I still can't get my head around it :???2:

Nor do I re-size any images. I just dpy everything to death :lol3:

(Actually, slight blurs sometimes get me out of a hole ...)

Thanks for the tip on the rim. You can never get too much knowledge, ideas

Goonfella · **Posted:** Mon Sep 06, 2010 8:10 pm

Sarkut, I havn`t abandoned alpha masking. Like Welshy I just find it easier to use AA , Feather and/or reduce the size of the image. I would have forgotten about the alpha masking as well anyway. :lol3:

Glad you like mine Welshy. Thanks. :wink2:

A Fleeting Glimpse · **Posted:** Sun Sep 12, 2010 7:40 am

Will have to try this

barbieq25 · **Posted:** Sun Sep 12, 2010 8:59 am

Isn't it odd how we all have different ways of working but each of us is able to use that way to perfection.

I had a hard time trying to follow the shiny orbs bit, so I did my own thing. Thanks so much for writing the tute Welshy! It's taken mw a while to get to do this but I am happy with the result. I might do this again but start out on a bigger canvas since I know basically what to do now.

Ah, didn't take enough of the surplus address out - should work now.

LanceMcKnight · **Posted:** Sun Sep 12, 2010 12:52 pm

Barbie, can't see the full sized image. It seem you have set it to private browsing only, is there a way you can circumvent it?

~WelshBlue~ · **Posted:** Fri Sep 17, 2010 8:09 pm

Just a heads up to anyone who may want to do this in the future ... copy it if you can 'cos my PB account is getting pretty full, so I'm going to be trimming images on dead tuts both here and on the main board

barbieq25 · **Posted:** Fri Sep 17, 2010 9:28 pm

I've copied it & put it into a Word file. Thanks Welshy!

Sargon III · **Posted:** Sun Sep 19, 2010 1:33 am

Hey Welshy, this is awesome, and well explained tut, I have to try it.

Pixey · **Posted:** Sun Sep 19, 2010 2:54 pm

A super tutorial Welshy - thank you! My only problem was that I ended up with a "white" bulge under the helmet, so I have left the background white, in order to hide that :???2:

blackpenny · **Posted:** Mon Sep 20, 2010 3:12 pm

Pixey, the design on the helmet is really cool!

I still haven't finished this one, I got as far as the horns and had to stop before my head exploded.

I copied it into Publisher - I don't work well with Word - and now I'm looking through other tuts to decide which ones to save.

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