Making of The Last Elf by Piotr Fox Wysocki, Poland


Q. You have taken any references for this character and from where?

References for helmet from LOTR, for decorations it was Marta design. For brooch - I based on Gandalf brooch from LOTR movie. For elf - I took some pictures of Marta. And finally I change a bit something’s. Those pics were with large amount of painted dots on her face. To have exact proportions later on modeling.



Q. Which modeling method and software used in the making? Have you faced any difficulties?

Everything has been done in Maya and used polygon modeling. We like polygons because of good modeling control and UV’s. For the elf face I use Zbrush, for lips and eyes, to give them some fine details.

For Marta this helmet was a good show off modeling skills, and some kind of protest against Zbrush and Mudbox. Where you can do something very similar in one or 2 days. And it was cool to see everything modeled. It gives an illusion of having real object in 3d. You can take look from every side, and see how it was made. But most of all it was something crazy, something what you can’t do at regular work.






I think there was only one difficulty, The eyes… finally they don’t look as I want. I just give up, when I saw some decent result.