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AEmiliusLives — Ursula

Published: 2014-03-01 04:00:46 +0000 UTC; Views: 8864; Favourites: 157; Downloads: 75
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Description The third official deviation in my collection of Disney Villains: Ursula, the Witch of the Sea from 1989's classic animated feature "The Little Mermaid".


UPDATE: I improved the shape of the torso a little bit and I gave the contract a magical glow, now it looks more like the one in the movie, and I think this glow gave it a nice touch, specially since now it really affects the lighting of the scene.

I'm not 100% happy with her, specially with the hair and her torso but I'm glad I'm back on track and my Disney Villains Collection is finally happening. And if I have to wait to be 100% happy with each character I'll put out one a year instead of one the 28th of every month as I intend to do this year  I know she never actually held the pen in her hand, btw. This is a rather simple sculpt job, I approach these characters as if I was sculpting a toy or a figurine, trying to remain true to the original design but with a little thing of my own there too. Made in Sculptris, with some elements modeled in trueSpace, rendered in Keyshot and finished in Photoshop.


I used the bubbles photoshop brush by SweetCandyDreams fav.me/d17tqsb




Turntable animation



Stereoscopic version of this deviation

(requires red/cyan 3D glasses)



  WIP render from my scrapbook


VIDEO version

youtu.be/ZOAJLZQxITo

Including turntable animations, sculpting progress and test renders.



 Ursula and "The Little Mermaid" are property of Walt Disney Pictures.




         

My previous villains in the collection.


Lady Tremaine WIP render fav.me/d6rkmav

Hades WIP render fav.me/d6fygr9


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Comments: 45

DCJBeers [2019-11-17 12:55:24 +0000 UTC]

One of my favorites!!

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Lewid [2019-08-07 23:21:59 +0000 UTC]

I just got Blender 2 weeks ago, I think your works are amazing.

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AEmiliusLives In reply to Lewid [2019-08-09 01:03:46 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! and thanks for the favs and for adding me to your watch!
I'm not very familiar with Blender, I tried it many years ago but I found it a bit difficult to figure out

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Fire-Wolf-The-Wolgan [2019-01-13 17:59:55 +0000 UTC]

"It won't cost much.  Just your voice!"

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Severusiana [2017-12-25 10:44:47 +0000 UTC]

Mi villana favorita de Disney, me encanta Ursula.

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CareyAnnAuthor [2017-09-13 12:41:01 +0000 UTC]

Oh wow, she's even more terrifying! I love this! Like she's going to pop right out of the screen and grab you!

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MightyMorphinPower4 [2015-06-26 18:07:46 +0000 UTC]

Awesome work

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Benthos1 [2015-03-05 09:55:41 +0000 UTC]

Great work here! Ursula in the story was just known as the sea witch from what I remember. The tragic turn in the story was that the man who she saved confused another woman as if she had saved him and fell in love with him. When confronted with this horrible outcome, the sea witch gave her a loop hole for safety to save her own life. The contract wasn't for her voice but for the life and Ariel had the choice to either kill the man which would force the contract to become null or her own life would expire. She chose to save him again and dove in the water when the time was up then turned into sea foam. I also prefer the Disney adaptation, imagine the theater's response with THAT ending!

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AEmiliusLives In reply to Benthos1 [2015-03-06 03:36:33 +0000 UTC]

Thank you. And yeah, so many fairytales didn't originally have all happy endings, and some that did also had some atrocious punishment for the villains. So no wonder animated features and contemporary retellings are more soft-hearted

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AndsportsART [2015-01-12 12:01:30 +0000 UTC]

Que do super genial! Ursula es mi villana favorita de Disney.

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AEmiliusLives In reply to AndsportsART [2015-01-13 22:17:21 +0000 UTC]

Gracias!  

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AndsportsART In reply to AEmiliusLives [2015-01-14 00:10:55 +0000 UTC]

De nada!

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Machu-Picchu95 [2014-12-31 23:23:56 +0000 UTC]

You have made Ursula look interesting, hiding her true nature. XD

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AEmiliusLives In reply to Machu-Picchu95 [2015-01-04 23:47:18 +0000 UTC]

Thanks And thank you for the s and for adding me to your watch.

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Machu-Picchu95 In reply to AEmiliusLives [2015-01-05 12:17:10 +0000 UTC]

You are welcome

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tomhermie [2014-12-10 10:25:42 +0000 UTC]

This is perfect... Can you give me tips on how to do hair and eyes in sculptris?

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AEmiliusLives In reply to tomhermie [2014-12-13 00:17:12 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much, and for adding me to your watch too  I'll answer the rest in my reply to your note.

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javilustra [2014-10-16 09:24:54 +0000 UTC]

I love this ursula xd

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AEmiliusLives In reply to javilustra [2014-10-18 00:29:18 +0000 UTC]

Thank you for all the s and for adding me to your watch too!

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javilustra In reply to AEmiliusLives [2014-10-18 08:30:53 +0000 UTC]

you`re welcome xd

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fionnaivory [2014-08-29 16:16:53 +0000 UTC]

Very impressive

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AEmiliusLives In reply to fionnaivory [2014-08-30 01:29:19 +0000 UTC]

Thank you.

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FERNL [2014-03-10 03:36:14 +0000 UTC]

Impresionante, un trabajo magistral

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AEmiliusLives In reply to FERNL [2014-03-10 14:04:39 +0000 UTC]

Gracias todavía le quiero hacer unas correcciones, pero creo que ya va por buen camino

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Dani-Castro [2014-03-04 21:10:30 +0000 UTC]

Sin palabras!! Está de 10 Aemilius!! DE DIEZ TIO!!! ME gusta como ha quedado la cara, y la expresión , además con el contrato en la mano jajaja y la raspa de pescado en la otra jajaja , las burbujas le dan un toque muy elegante a la composición y es un guiño necesario al escenario,  y respecto a la figura, te quedó genial tanto la anatomía humana de ella como la de pulpo (esos tentáculos con ventosas son geniales) 
Muy buena si señor

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AEmiliusLives In reply to Dani-Castro [2014-03-05 03:25:46 +0000 UTC]

Gracias! No sabes lo que me ha costado quedar más o menos conforme con esto Esta mañana la actualicé por tercera vez. Al principio la había hecho muy ancha de hombros, tratando de arreglar eso la dejé casi sin forma ni axilas, ahora por fin la arreglé un poco y agregué ese brillo mágico al contrato que también se refleja en ella y le dió un mejor acabado a todo. Creo que por fin la voy a dejar en paz hasta la próxima

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fieldmarshal [2014-03-02 09:16:18 +0000 UTC]

Your model is great! 
I think, I know whats wrong with your model. Her body is shaped like a pear, your model on the other hand looks more like an hour glass. Just lessen the hour glass shape shape and more like a pear.

You did great on the head. Her head is also the same shape as her body, try basing it on that.

let me also suggest widening her lower back torso slightly.


your model is very almost perfect. just a little more tweaking. good luck.





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AEmiliusLives In reply to fieldmarshal [2014-03-03 01:02:11 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, you're right. In fact I began doing it that way, it can be seen in the video, but then making her raise her arms made me change that completely. I ended up widening her through the shoulders too much, she ended up looking like a quarterback or a wrestler. I already reduced that and changed the main deviation and the 3d-glasses version, but it can still be seen in my WIP render. I probably will redo the torso for any future deviations with this model, but for now I'm done with it. Thank you for your tips

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fieldmarshal In reply to AEmiliusLives [2014-03-03 11:13:19 +0000 UTC]

Hey she is my favorite Disney villain. Oh I viewed more concept art of her, And I am wrong.

I think she's more of an apple body shape.  

 I'm sorry for that bad advice. 


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AEmiliusLives In reply to fieldmarshal [2014-03-04 03:43:24 +0000 UTC]

No, but you're right. I gradually started to diverge from the appropriate shapes for her, then I began working on correcting that but I'm not quite there yet, but for now I'm more or less satisfied

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fieldmarshal In reply to fieldmarshal [2014-03-03 14:31:00 +0000 UTC]

oh wait, i think she is a mix of both pear and apple.

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ThreshTheSky [2014-03-02 01:09:12 +0000 UTC]

Good call on including the contract and pen. I remember thinking that her weird fishbone pen was really cool as a kid. Is the look of the contract movie accurate? (I can't remember what it looks like.) Either way, amazing attention to detail on the props!


I'm glad that the open-mouth model ended up working out. It just wouldn't Ursula without that creepy, manipulative smile. 


And as always, your gold color and metal texture (on her seashell necklace) looks great. Did the champagne-ish color thing we talked about work for this one too?


Another awesome villain.

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AEmiliusLives In reply to ThreshTheSky [2014-03-02 08:17:03 +0000 UTC]

Thanks. After it was finished, I realized I also did a bad pixelart Ursula in PrintMagic in the '90s and I made her pretty much like this, contract and all! Now I really have to find that old stuff and do a "draw this again" The original contract is similar, actually it changes in the movie. In some shots you can see it as it is here, with that fine print in the middle, and in another shot you see all of the text is the same size when the camera scrolls down through it, and if you watch it frame by frame you'll realize the middle section is all gibberish and even has a Mickey Mouse head somewhere Also, in the movie the bottom part of the scroll rolls in the opposite direction, and the whole thing has a magical glow to it. I considered trying that, but it was messing with the 'realistic' lighting, then I considered adding the glow in post, but I didn't like the result so I left it that way. I'm glad I opened her mouth too. The early sculpt looks like her mouth had been forced shut, it's like she was begging me to let her open it


I like how the necklace turned out, specially considering how difficult it was to make. I always knew I'd have to do it in traditional modelling but nothing I tried was working. I now own a collection of failed 3D snailshells The earrings were easier to make and they were in place and remained unaltered even before she even looked like Ursula. And that's champagne-ish gold indeed. I can't have enough of it and I think I'm never going back to yellow/orange, except when I go back to doing POTO stuff since I already made that gold sort of orangy.


Thank you for checking this out, commenting and faving, and for indulging me and let me yap about all I did, how and why



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ThreshTheSky In reply to AEmiliusLives [2014-03-04 17:47:07 +0000 UTC]

Now I'll have to go back and watch Little Mermaid for those few frames to see the contract. It's cool when you actually find a hidden Mickey in one of their films. Most of the ones I know about I've heard about from someone or just read about it.

I'm always glad to swap yaps with you.

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AEmiliusLives In reply to ThreshTheSky [2014-03-05 02:32:21 +0000 UTC]

That shot of the contract was a funny easter egg, pity it made the contract look completely different to the way it was in all the other shots Speaking of the contract, I uploaded a third version of this main deviation this morning. I modified her torso yet again, though I still don't love it, and I finally made the contract glow. I really like how it shines on Ursula now, I think it gave the whole thing a much better finishing. I almost checked the "Notify your watchers" box with this final(ish?) update, but I didn't want to be spammy

And thanks again for putting up with me Maybe it just me, but I think that the few other people that I ever textwalled here ended up stopping to comment on my devs altogether

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DarthWill3 [2014-03-01 22:28:18 +0000 UTC]

Go Ursula!

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AEmiliusLives In reply to DarthWill3 [2014-03-02 07:51:16 +0000 UTC]

Thank you for the comment and the

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DarthWill3 In reply to AEmiliusLives [2014-03-02 18:33:40 +0000 UTC]

Not a problem.

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Grace-Zed [2014-03-01 13:41:15 +0000 UTC]

Wonderful work! which Disney villain are you going to make next?

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AEmiliusLives In reply to Grace-Zed [2014-03-02 08:19:24 +0000 UTC]

Thank you and for the too. I'm not sure because I have several characters in the works, but I think perhaps I'll finish Cinderella's stepmother next.

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dendril [2014-03-01 07:07:45 +0000 UTC]

Oh gosh this is fantastic.  I love the translucent quality of her flesh, especially evident around her hand.  I seriously thought this was a sculpture or toy!

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AEmiliusLives In reply to dendril [2014-03-02 08:32:03 +0000 UTC]

Thank you, and for the too. Keyshot does a pretty nice job rendering materials like that and it really brings characters to life, specially the ones with more 'natural' skin tones. Ursula, being purplish, looks a bit waxy here though.

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Sunshiny-Disposition [2014-03-01 04:53:52 +0000 UTC]

Looks great!


I looked at some of the other models you sculpted and I like that they don't look 100% how they're supposed to, yours look very unique.

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AEmiliusLives In reply to Sunshiny-Disposition [2014-03-02 08:45:01 +0000 UTC]

Thank you. I try to make it so, to give it a little thing of my own


Also, thank you for the favs and for adding me to your watch

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Sunshiny-Disposition In reply to AEmiliusLives [2014-03-02 22:36:06 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome

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