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For the Star Trek: New Worlds™ end-game movie,
I needed a head with facial morph targets already made,
due to time constraints. We found this
"life-mask" head for a Vulcan character which
had been made for Star Trek: Secret of Vulcan Fury, which
had been "indefinitely suspended." It had the
morph targets, but then I had the challenge of making
this guy look like a Klingon, but without altering the
existing geometry (and thus rendering the morph targets
unusable.) |
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So I did what Hollywood would have done: I created a
"prosthetic" forehead, borrowed a
"wig" of long hair, and added a little Fu
Manchu moustache, which 3DS MAX 3.1 allowed me to
"stick" to the geometry without screwing up its
vertex numbering. |
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Add some color, specularity and bump mapping, and
voilá: We have Captain Klunk of the Klingon Empire,
ready to deliver his lines. |