2025 Collab: Week 49 “Helmet”

This is the Blender Collaboration 2025, week 49 challenge. Don’t be afraid to join, a lot of us are beginners. This is all to practice, have fun, learn, and get together.

This week’s subject is “Helmet”.

  • “Helmet” - A helmet is a form of protective gear worn to protect the head. More specifically, a helmet complements the skull in protecting the human brain. Ceremonial or symbolic helmets (e.g., a policeman’s helmet in the United Kingdom) without protective function are sometimes worn. Soldiers wear combat helmets, often made from Kevlar or other lightweight synthetic fibers.
  • Subject selected by the previous Week 47, 2025 “ Alien grocery store " winner Srl1

The rules are simple. 1 subject, 1 entry, 1 week.
You create whatever object or scene or whatever you can think of that has something to do with the subject. It can be as simple or complicated as you want, all entries are welcome!
Post your picture here in this thread. At the end of the week, we start to vote. And if you are the winner, you may choose the next subject and win a unique badge.

Deadline: 2025-12-06T22:55:00Z

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I have trouble with keeping focus, so I stopped participating in the Blender Collabs, even though I really enjoy them. I’ll try a new approach and update with a progress render every day - see if that won’t create some kind of accountability for me :slight_smile:

I’m trying to recreate an image I did in watercolour ages ago.

Daily progress, day 2:

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Welcome back!
And yes, participating the Collab takes time and effort.

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Daily progress, day 3:

Only half a neck, but there’ll be som hair to deal with that :stuck_out_tongue:

(It matches her half a head, though ^^).

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This already looks amazing! Really looking forward seeing the final result.

I am trying to do some helmet from assassins creed and I realize that I need to train my hard-surface modelling skills much more often :see_no_evil_monkey:

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Its been a while since i’ve participated, but I have pretty much been working in Blender nearly every day for months. I am excited to present this Helmet for the Collab

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Thank you :smiley: - I just hope I can figure out how to make what I’m wanting it to look like in the end xD

It sounds really cool with a helmet from Assassins Creed! I look forward to seeing it!

I can recommend posting a daily render. Every time my shoulder devil tells me I should just quit because it looks stupid, I remember I’ve sorta committed to posting my daily progress, and it looks even more stupid if it’s the same as yesterday <.<

(Additionally, I’d love to see your process in action ;D )

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Made a rough shape in sculpting mode and modeled on top of it. SubD is one of my weakest areas, so this is good practice. :sweat_smile:
WIP



Final:

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WIP:

Worked on more details, texture, and composition. I think I like it :slight_smile:

Ok, final render:

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That looks awesome! :smiley:

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Day 4 progress:

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Very nice! I am sure this was a great painting

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Thank you! - I was probably better with watercolours, than I am with Blender, but it’s a fun process.

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I wasn’t home much today, and I didn’t get a whole lot done… ;_;

Day 5 progress:

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Day 6 progress - materials. And running out of time.

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The sand could be improved and the helmet might need some more tweaking but I’m happy with the result.

I did not have a lot of time this week but was inspired by the subject so my goal in creating this was to try and tell a story with the image within a tight time frame :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

Final render

Fixed a mistake and tweaked my texture with a dust layer :slight_smile:

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Day 7:
Finished hair, materials and lighting, and ran out of time. I’m sorry this is late :confused:

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Looks awesome, well done!

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There’s no real deadline, except that I’ll create the poll on Sunday morning. You can still submit an entry until then. If the poll is already up, submissions are too late.

Enjoy!

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