DotA 2 – Juggernaut Mask
I was commissioned to build a wearable mask of the Juggernaut from DotA 2!
I figured that the game art was a pretty good place to start for references, so I did most of my work from this image here.
I decided that this would be an excellent chance for me to try out Pepakura for the first time. I dusted off my 3D modeling skills and made a rough likeness of the mask in Maya. I used my own head for scale, because I figured that if it could fit on my giant melon head, it would fit on nearly anyone else’s head.
The .obj of the model was plugged into Pepakura Designer and I unfolded the thing. If you’d like to see how that’s done, just to a search on YouTube, there are loads of videos detailing it.
Once I had the Pepakura files all laid out, I printed them on heavy card stock, cut them out, and glued all of them together. Then the back side of the mask got some MDF and styrene supports.
To start giving the mask a bit of rigidity, I slathered the outside surface in fiberglass resin. Once that hardened, the back side got the full fiberglass treatment!
Now that the mask was all kinds of stiff, I faired out the faceted faces with a whole lot of Bondo.
Up until now our Juggernaut was blind! I went ahead and gave him some eye holes. You’ll also notice that the mask has been sanded a whole lot and is nice and smooth compared to the faceted look it had from the Pepakura process.
Finally this bad boy got some paint! It was sprayed with an off-white enamel and clear coated. Then the red lines were hand painted on with some more enamels. Tah-dah! I also added some foam and elastic to the back side of the mask so that it could be worn.
That’s it, all done!
cool!
Juggernaut approves this mask.
Do you still have the pepakura file, and if so could you post it?
Hi! It looks like I never saved that file after printing. Sorry! =(
Do you happen to have the Maya model? I’m trying to do what you did, but I’m not great at Maya, so I initially tried (some 40 minutes ago) just simplifying the original Valve model (DL’d off the website, opened up in Maya), trying to cut down on some of the faces so that the printable model would be easier to fold. Well, it seems vaguely better, but it still looks, well, like this: http://i.imgur.com/dXJ528m.png
I get the feeling that I wouldn’t really be able to fold that easily, or probably at all, and my attempts at simplification don’t seem to be working all too well.
If you don’t have the model you used (in any format), might you have any tips for someone attempting to follow in your JuggMask-making footsteps?
I no longer have the model, sorry!
What type of bonds do you use
*bondo
The normal, automotive Bondo that you can get in a gallon can from most hardware stores.
How would I make the paper model of it? I’m actually wanting to make a Yurnero mask for my friend’s bday but I’m not sure I know how.
Look up everything you can find on Pepakura.
I have to ask. What did this cost in total? I think this could be a very nice niche market. People buy cosmetic items in game, so I think there would definitely be a market for selling them stuff like this. People would hang it on the wall in their gaming rooms etc and show it off to friends.
I don’t usually disclose what my clients pay for their pieces. Sorry!
Hi! I wanna do 3D model again a make a mask, but I want to do this with video tutorial.
Can you send me how to make this model?
Early thanks.
Hi! I modeled this in Maya, but you could do the same in many of the other applications out there like Blender. There are hundreds of 3D modeling tutorials on YouTube, so take a look around. =)
Hi! So as i’m looking at these steps, it doesn’t seem to hard to do this, am i correct in this thinking? I’m a high school student still but i have a general idea of 3D modeling, i use metasequoia though, but i was wondering where i could get sturdy cardstock and maybe a little more help. Trying to make 5 Dota 2 items and your the first place that has started helping me get this task accomlished.
Thanks for any help you can provide!
I just got card stock from an office supply store.
thank you. sorry to ask so many questions but can you get 8 1/2 by 11 pieces of paper and if so can you print out the faces with a normal home printer? or do i need to get it printed somewhere else? and any good links on how to do the full fiberglass thing?