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Ah Puch - Mayan inspired Mask

This is an infographic showing how the Mayans used to represent "Ah Puch", the Mayan god from the Underworld.
For those of you who don't speak spanish:
According to the Mayans, he comes up to our world to take the old and the ill to the underworld.
He has bells hanging from his rotten, smelly dead body.
He's described as a corpse or skeleton with the face of a jaguar or an owl.
He has black dots all over his body because of the rotting and the descomposition.
He's usualy represented with his ribs and his spine showing out of his skin.
I scanned myself using a Kinect, this way I can adjust my mask to the shape of my face perfectly so that when I 3-D print it, it will fit exactly the way I want it to fit.
Created a surface of my face and projected the masks drawings on it, then proceeded to trim, split and select the surfaces I needed. This way, the mask is shaped to my face and I can start extruding and creating more surfaces out of it.
Extruded the different sections of my mask and gave each different thickness levels to add depth.
See how the back of my mask is still shaped like the surface of my face?
Added different colors to the layers, this way I can see how I should paint it once I 3D print it. For this one, I went with the color range the Mayans used to represent this god with,
Shaded view. I used a little offset on the whole model so the mask can give my face a little breathing space and it wont be so tight. Check for naked edges. There weren't. Ready to print.
Ah Puch - Mayan inspired Mask
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Ah Puch - Mayan inspired Mask

work in progress. Mask based on the prehispanic god "Ah Puch", the mayan god from the underworld

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