Why pinkish plasma?

Why did I choose to color the plasma in this pinkish color?
Well it seems like a lot of real life plasma devices show a bright pink/purple colored gas….

Power source

I’ve been working on the power source (not powersauce) for the armor.

The result, integrated to the armor.

What is a gothic armor…

I won’t steal Wikipedia’s fire, so I won’t simply copy paste their page…

I will just resume what ideas I find interesting in the gothic armor…

First, the name gothic… no it doesn’t mean that knights in the 15th century went to combat wearing tight black outfit and black mascara willing to bring more pain into the world (although…)

It seems the gothic armor appeared in germany, and was inspired by the architecture of cathedrals.

While the result itself is beautiful, I am most surprised to learn that it is also for functional reasons that armor crafter copied the design of church. Indeed, gothic ogives and archs must support the weight of the building and they do so by distributing the weight (along the pillars, in the case of a church). 

Gothic archs is more efficient and solid than the round roman arch. Hence the building could be built taller, and with a lighter structure. A bad analogy would be to say that gothic churches are to roman churches what an elf is to a dwarf. 

Lighter yet stronger… do you get the idea? I think the armor crafter in germany did.

Gothic armors feature ridges and other ogival forms… everything to distribute the full force of the blow of a weapon that became more common on the battlefield around that same time period. The war hammer… (ouch)

First details…

Started adding details. Going for the “Gothic Armor” style.

Adding details

High ponytail

Sometimes, simple things are the best.

And what is more simple than a ponytail?

Aaaaaah the nostalgic memories of when I used to pull the girls ponytails in kindergarten… I remember it like it was yesterday…

Wait… In fact I’m pretty sure I did that yesterday…

Anyway. Here is the current hairs.

Looks much more natural already. Njoy.

omigosh, cornrows…

No, I’m not especially fond of cornrows (I am currently aiming for a tight and high ponytail now…).

But It’s one of those hairstyles that are hard to achieve without particles…

That’s what I get for playing with the particle hair system from Blender…

Pose test with the armor prototype

Here is a test pose I did to test the armature and the ways the armor goes around the body and stuffs…

You get a cookie if you guess the movie reference

… a closer view to the armor …

Added some details to the torso armor, mostly focused on the pauldrons, the arms.

Finally I also paid a little attention to the feet…

… after the torso, the rest of the armor…

Armor

Thinking about the overall design of the armor… Still not happy with the hairs, but will think about it later…

Blender hairs

Nice image

It was posted in my previous blog, but it’s so nice that I will post it here nonetheless.  Although the hairstyle was… meh…