It's terrible as Annatar, technically good as a modern sultry male model though. Please try to understand Tolkien before attempting something like this - this shows a lack of knowledge of the source material or a lack of understanding.
Now I'm gonna be blushing every time I watch LOTR and hear Sauron say "I see you." 'Who me? 😳 ..stopp~ 😏🥵😍' Seriously, amazing work. The level of detail is incredible.
More than anything, there's something about the eyelids that sells this hard for me. It's like a quiet imperious contempt, subtle yet biting. An elven-ish sociopath all the way.
i actually saw this on artstation a few weeks ago and randomly stumbled on this video now too and i'm really glad i did! i love how you explain and show your process, i love your personality and humor. this was by far the most entertaining and well explained sculpting video i've seen!
Since Tolkien wrote letters on how he despises automation and heavy machinery (speaking not only of WW killing machines), it is obvious that Sauron is covered in metal and iron in Peter Jackson's trilogy :] Edit: great final result👌
I hope to see more Tolkien characters brought to live, would be so cool to see your vision of young and mighty Celebrimbor, Galadriel or Luthien. We got really disappointing adaption in Rings of power, but I feel better when seeing this Sauron.
I'd hope one day I get to meet more character artist such as yourself. Their so much thought and effort put into the whole thing. You forget what's going to happen towards the end and that leads toward the best outcome!
"Upon that ship which was cast the highest and stood dry upon a hill there was a man, or one in man’s shape, but greater than any even of the race of Numenor in stature...And it seemed to men that Sauron was great; though they feared the light of his eyes. To many he appeared fair, to others terrible; but to some evil"
Freaking sick and beautiful. I love the slightly asymmetrical look, which he was probably symmetrical but in the final render his eyes looked asymmetrical in a way which made it more realistic, feeling super inspired. Awesome vid! A lot to learn too
I'll never get over absolute mad-lads like you that dedicate so much time, knowledge, patience, and effort into such fantastic art! I've tried modeling like this before, and it is VERY difficult to master :} Amazing work!!!! Its wonderful
Oh HELL YES!! This is so PERFECT! This is exactly how I imagined him to look like, I followed a bunch of artists that you showed at the beginning as ones you took references from, and I tried to come up with something similiar but could not succeed. Spent a long time and gave up, BUT THIS! This is exactly how I imagined he looks like!! Beautiful work, man, this is absolutely fantastic!! I am in awe!
Sauron looks like he grew up with money and does vlogs with his friends over in California while driving around in the lambo that his parents gifted him for his 16th birthday
I rarely comment on TH-cam videos but for yours I do to say that your work is amazing this is probably the best representation of Mairon/Sauron as Annatar the lord of the gifts I've ever seen. If you feel like it for your next sculpt, you could interpret your version of his boss Melkor/Morgoth that could be really powerful to see the power of this Vala
@@artofjhill It has woken up a bit the desire I had to do 3D and stuff like that like I used when I was much younger. I've been taking drawing lessons for several weeks. Maybe I should get back to 3D too :)
The last statement is soo true I wish people saw it that way too. Like just enjoy it or at the very least let us enjoy it. I loved the show and I really love your Sculpture of Lord Sauron in his fair form its sooo sick!
I ask this as I paused at the 23 second mark... Did you refer too to the deleted scene in the movie where his silvery elvish apparition appeared at the gate? If so thank you so much for Sexy Sauron... You made the statement "If evil why sexy" valid all the more 😭👍🏼 Edit: Silly me I got my answer at 1:11 mark so heck yeah thanks man. But you're wrong about RoP, even I as a non-TLOTR fan hated that show that's not at all canon.
God damn, this looks sick man! Your videos were one of the reasons and inspirations for me to start learning 3D art ( game characters more precisely). I'm also watching the show and I'm enjoying a lot as well, trying to avoid all the hate as you said, fantasy it's probably my favorite genre and watch all those armors and creatures on the screen it's amazing!
Man , we have rings of power , house of the dragon and a spin off from the witcher coming in december , do we need more ? Awesome work as always so inspiring 😁😁
Beautiful! Really would have liked to see your Sauron/ Annatar version in the series. Sadly we have only gotten a scruffy and smelly Halbrand dude so far... What a letdown smh
wow ^_^ J hill it's been long since i was here. i almost didn't recognize you without the earrings. i had to go check on your old videos to confirm it's the same person ^_^ . still looking as fresh as ever. keep up the good work.
@@artofjhilldon’t take it the wrong way. I meant it in fun and not as a personal attack. That show is not good. They did a good job on how it looks but the story is pointless and obvious, the characters are insufferable and the creators have zero regard for the source material. When you said you were super enjoying the show I found that hard to believe. BUT I’m glad that you liked it.
I don't think it's fair for you to say the creators haven't worked hard. You're allowed to not like the show or even the style of the work but they did work hard.
Awesome work! Blender just got an update to the hair system in 3.3, however you have to fiddle with geo nodes to get xgen like results. For now, xgen is just far simpler to use for grooming.
@@artofjhill blender fanboys irk me 🤦 they never hesitate to say blender is the best software on the market without ever trying anything else. Maya is buggy, convoluted and obtuse, but its still production ready in a way that vanilla blender still only scratches the surface of. Personally I'm a cinema 4d man for most stuff myself... The new hair tools do peak my interest but I'll be ready to use them when they work with guide curves AND sculpt brushes.
I haven't watched Rings of Power, but I grew up with Lord of the Rings and was pretty interested in seeing the "new" version of Sauron when it was spoiled and let me tell ya....I was incredibly disappointed lol Now THIS, this is how I envisioned Sauron! The sculpt is *amazing*, I love the details on his clothes and how the hair came out, I also really appreciated that you showed your references, great work! Sucks that I can't like this video more than once😂
This is amazing work and attention to detail. Would've been great to have a beautiful and evil looking Annatar in Rings of Power, not some dehydrated lost hobo on a raft in the middle of the ocean.
@@artofjhill Hell yeah!! Thats an incredibly hard question because there are so many cool characters, but if I had to choose one I would maybe a more obscure character like Patchface from the books. Such an interesting and really unique character! So him! Others (that are more or less obscure) that I would love from the top of my head: Bloodraven, Euron (book version), Duncan the tall, fAegon, Beric Dondarrion and The Hound.
Does anybody know where in the Tolkien legendarium says that Annatar looked like an elf? I mean in the Silmarillion says elfs where specting a Maia and that is how Sauron tricked them, but I couldn't find anywhere that says that Annatar looked like an elf...
This is beyond any praise. Getting into the book image 10/10. The work was done at an excellent technical level. It also turned out to be very unique, and not plagiarism from the Shadow of Mordor. What a pity that in the new series from Amazon we will not see something like this. I would like to see Morgoth in your performance. Or Sauron in armor from movies and Shadow of Mordor game.
The best thing to come out of this (great looking) hot garbage of a show with awful writing, story development, and dialogue is amazing work (as demonstrated in this video) inspired by it. Love your work. Thanks for sharing and inspiring! And there's absolutely no shame in liking what you like! My expectations were just kinda high, I guess.
Thank you for watching! The final HQ images can be seen here www.artstation.com/artwork/WmqlDJ
Praise Melkor
It's terrible as Annatar, technically good as a modern sultry male model though. Please try to understand Tolkien before attempting something like this - this shows a lack of knowledge of the source material or a lack of understanding.
lol
Now I'm gonna be blushing every time I watch LOTR and hear Sauron say "I see you." 'Who me? 😳 ..stopp~ 😏🥵😍' Seriously, amazing work. The level of detail is incredible.
He'd like to keep his eye on you if you know what I mean ;)
Thank you!
Staaappp jsjsjjs
THAT LOOKS DOPE!!!! Exactly how i imagined anatar
Awesome! Love to hear it
More than anything, there's something about the eyelids that sells this hard for me. It's like a quiet imperious contempt, subtle yet biting. An elven-ish sociopath all the way.
Even though Sauron is so evil, the way you made him look makes me want to "put a ring on it" too. 👌 #sexysauron
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You win the comment section
#SexySauron ❤
i actually saw this on artstation a few weeks ago and randomly stumbled on this video now too and i'm really glad i did! i love how you explain and show your process, i love your personality and humor. this was by far the most entertaining and well explained sculpting video i've seen!
Oh wow thanks. Glad you liked it and the video
Since Tolkien wrote letters on how he despises automation and heavy machinery (speaking not only of WW killing machines), it is obvious that Sauron is covered in metal and iron in Peter Jackson's trilogy :]
Edit: great final result👌
I hope to see more Tolkien characters brought to live, would be so cool to see your vision of young and mighty Celebrimbor, Galadriel or Luthien. We got really disappointing adaption in Rings of power, but I feel better when seeing this Sauron.
Its the BEST VISION of Sauron Ive ever seen
Thank you so much, I'm happy you think so
Incredible work, man. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us.
Thank you man, glad you like it.
I'd hope one day I get to meet more character artist such as yourself. Their so much thought and effort put into the whole thing. You forget what's going to happen towards the end and that leads toward the best outcome!
"I'd put a ring on it" xD Love it haha
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Too bad they didnt put this level of attention into The Rings Of Power. Great work on the sculpture.
thank you!
"Upon that ship which was cast the highest and stood dry upon a hill there was a man, or one in man’s shape, but greater than any even of the race of Numenor in stature...And it seemed to men that Sauron was great; though they feared the light of his eyes. To many he appeared fair, to others terrible; but to some evil"
Freaking sick and beautiful.
I love the slightly asymmetrical look, which he was probably symmetrical but in the final render his eyes looked asymmetrical in a way which made it more realistic, feeling super inspired. Awesome vid!
A lot to learn too
Glad you liked it :)
I'll never get over absolute mad-lads like you that dedicate so much time, knowledge, patience, and effort into such fantastic art! I've tried modeling like this before, and it is VERY difficult to master :} Amazing work!!!! Its wonderful
Thank you man!
This video has given me feelings I haven't felt before
And all he wants is a pretty little ring 💍
@@artofjhill I'll get him whatever he wants ❤️
Oh HELL YES!! This is so PERFECT! This is exactly how I imagined him to look like, I followed a bunch of artists that you showed at the beginning as ones you took references from, and I tried to come up with something similiar but could not succeed. Spent a long time and gave up, BUT THIS! This is exactly how I imagined he looks like!! Beautiful work, man, this is absolutely fantastic!! I am in awe!
Thank you! Glad to hear you like it then
Absolutely gorgeous. I wish I could buy a figure like this to accompany my nazgul figures.
Sauron looks like he grew up with money and does vlogs with his friends over in California while driving around in the lambo that his parents gifted him for his 16th birthday
and into this lambo he poured his cruelty, his malice, and his will to dominate all life.
Dude this Annatar is much better then he is portrayed in the show. Loved the content!
Thank you! ❤️
Your work is genuinely jaw dropping. Upload more pleeeease 😭😭
Thank you 🙏 working on it
I rarely comment on TH-cam videos but for yours I do to say that your work is amazing this is probably the best representation of Mairon/Sauron as Annatar the lord of the gifts I've ever seen. If you feel like it for your next sculpt, you could interpret your version of his boss Melkor/Morgoth that could be really powerful to see the power of this Vala
Thank you so much! super glad you like it
Don't agree with your assessment about the Show That Must Not Be Named, but this is SUPER COOL and I really enjoyed your work.
Thank you 🙏
Shows cool too though :p
Duuude, you need to make Morgoth now!
I really like the final result !
I think it encompasses really well the character :)
Thank you 🙏
@@artofjhill It has woken up a bit the desire I had to do 3D and stuff like that like I used when I was much younger.
I've been taking drawing lessons for several weeks. Maybe I should get back to 3D too :)
So good, love J hill contend, he helps the community so much with this videos. We are so lucky that this guys exists.
Thank you! Glad you like the videos and I'm happy you exist too
@@artofjhill Ha ha, thank J, im so inspired by your art, hope one day my art get to a level that even you finds cool.
The last statement is soo true I wish people saw it that way too. Like just enjoy it or at the very least let us enjoy it. I loved the show and I really love your Sculpture of Lord Sauron in his fair form its sooo sick!
Me too and thank you 🙏
this is the most beautiful creature on this earth. thank you for your service.
He is beautiful and you are amazing!
thank you 🙏
"Anatar is probably gonna be in this show"
SIghhh... I wish.
Women of this Gen would fall in love with him, not caring if is Evil.. Just Because His Handsome, Powerful and Mysteries
There's a version of Sauron in the shadow of mordor game that I think was spot on as your model, you should check it out.
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I ask this as I paused at the 23 second mark... Did you refer too to the deleted scene in the movie where his silvery elvish apparition appeared at the gate? If so thank you so much for Sexy Sauron... You made the statement "If evil why sexy" valid all the more 😭👍🏼
Edit: Silly me I got my answer at 1:11 mark so heck yeah thanks man. But you're wrong about RoP, even I as a non-TLOTR fan hated that show that's not at all canon.
Thanks! ROP is cool though :p
God damn, this looks sick man! Your videos were one of the reasons and inspirations for me to start learning 3D art ( game characters more precisely). I'm also watching the show and I'm enjoying a lot as well, trying to avoid all the hate as you said, fantasy it's probably my favorite genre and watch all those armors and creatures on the screen it's amazing!
Happy to hear that dude and I 100% agree. Haters gonna hate. Keep making stuff!
"When I wear the one ring it's like I'm wearing nothing at all!" -Stupid sexy Sauroun.
rarrr
Awesome! Great way to display your work!
Thank you! Cheers
I love this style of process explaining videos pls do more!
thank you, will do!
great video as usual! loved the final render
thank you
Omg he’s absolutely ethereal
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Hi J, could you share a few tutorials, resources for learning Nuke ? At least just the basics for compositing a character, nothing super fancy
Thanks for letting us know approximately how long this project took you. Great to be able to gauge my/our current skill and have a goal to strive for.
for sure, hopefully it's useful
This stuff is mind blowing to me. Awesome work man.
Man , we have rings of power , house of the dragon and a spin off from the witcher coming in december , do we need more ?
Awesome work as always so inspiring 😁😁
drowning in it. praise the fantasy lords!
@@artofjhill Could not agree more haha !
Looks really good
Thank you
u have the best tutorials maaan keep it up
Appreciate that man, will do
OOOOO I saw this trending on Artstation a while ago, good job!
Thank you!
idk about show, work is amazing
Thanks!
Dude, you're a Master this is inspiring.
Thank you 🙏
Amazing, this is the 5th time i'm quitting trying to learn zbrush because of a vid. Nice job !!
Don’t quit
This is great! Could you do melkor next?
definitely gonna become a member! Thanks!
Thank you! 🙏
Damn dude, that's incredible. I wish this is what he looks like in S2.
if only that had been what we got in Amazon's rings of power
awesome, i've never done shit in my project, love it
looks amazing as always
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Now that's how Annatar should look like.
This looks awessome! Great work ! :)
Thank you :)
Good job, would certainly help this guy forge some ring, surely nothing bad will happen.
surely
Wow this is amazing! So beautiful
You are a true inspiration man!Thanks for everything!
Thank YOU
One of best movies ever...and one of best characters by you!
Agreed! And thank you 🙏
"I'd put a ring on it." Well done, sir. Well done.
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Wow! really fine work, congratulations
Beautiful! Really would have liked to see your Sauron/ Annatar version in the series. Sadly we have only gotten a scruffy and smelly Halbrand dude so far... What a letdown smh
wow it's amazing!!!
If we ever get a Lord of the Rings video game, I want THIS to be Sauron 🥹🥹🥹
Solid and Perfect as always. Love your work man!
He might be a cult leader - I mean Sauron was also a cult leader, so it kinda suits
I hate that I’m trying not to drool 😂
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incredible work, cheers from uruguay
Thank you man! Cheers
Sauron is very similar to a character from American Horror Story. The wizard and son of the Lord of hell. It was played by Cody Fern.
wow ^_^ J hill it's been long since i was here. i almost didn't recognize you without the earrings. i had to go check on your old videos to confirm it's the same person ^_^ . still looking as fresh as ever. keep up the good work.
ha thanks :) glad you came back and liked the vid
"pretty boy" LMAO
Great process video btw, thanks for sharing and can't wait the next one!
:) Thanks
Another great art piece and video man, you truly are a genius, really a lot to learn from you
Thank you man, appreciate that
“Super enjoying it” was where your credibility started to tank.
credibility for what?
@@artofjhilldon’t take it the wrong way. I meant it in fun and not as a personal attack. That show is not good. They did a good job on how it looks but the story is pointless and obvious, the characters are insufferable and the creators have zero regard for the source material. When you said you were super enjoying the show I found that hard to believe. BUT I’m glad that you liked it.
Now thats fair hue!
A great design, very much has a sinister feel that contrasts with the androgynous beauty
Thank you 🙏 I appreciate that
This is a high quality video as always. May i know the spec of your machine?
Awesome. Congratulations!
Thank you
Great art!😇 Imagine the show creators working as hard as you🤔
Ha! They are working hard though. I loved the last ep
I don't think it's fair for you to say the creators haven't worked hard. You're allowed to not like the show or even the style of the work but they did work hard.
Awesome! A lot of thanks for your tips and explanation!
Hope you found them helpful!
Awesome work! Blender just got an update to the hair system in 3.3, however you have to fiddle with geo nodes to get xgen like results. For now, xgen is just far simpler to use for grooming.
Let him use/pay for the worst product 3d package
Funny how all of the major games and studios use the worst 3d package. If only all the experts knew what you know
@@artofjhill I meant Maya being bad as in pricing, software wide not so bad.
@@artofjhill blender fanboys irk me 🤦 they never hesitate to say blender is the best software on the market without ever trying anything else. Maya is buggy, convoluted and obtuse, but its still production ready in a way that vanilla blender still only scratches the surface of. Personally I'm a cinema 4d man for most stuff myself... The new hair tools do peak my interest but I'll be ready to use them when they work with guide curves AND sculpt brushes.
@@klipnity ‘let him use/pay for the worst product 3D package’, yet you need a ton of third party add-ons to make anything semi decent in Blender.
Much better than rings of power. Much more what I thought he looked like. Nice job!
I haven't watched Rings of Power, but I grew up with Lord of the Rings and was pretty interested in seeing the "new" version of Sauron when it was spoiled and let me tell ya....I was incredibly disappointed lol
Now THIS, this is how I envisioned Sauron! The sculpt is *amazing*, I love the details on his clothes and how the hair came out, I also really appreciated that you showed your references, great work!
Sucks that I can't like this video more than once😂
Thank you! Appreciate the comment and glad you approve of my Sauron :)
wow. intriguing
This is amazing work and attention to detail. Would've been great to have a beautiful and evil looking Annatar in Rings of Power, not some dehydrated lost hobo on a raft in the middle of the ocean.
wow. stunning!
this quality is on some baldur's gate shit gyatzamn son
I'm a fan of Gollum more than Sauron, but the Sexy guy face ref works for me . Love the work as always.
Oh yea Gollum FTW
Thank you dude
Amazing work! Have you concidered sculpting ASOIAF characters? I would watch the shit out of those videos! But this right here is absolutely amazing
I could be down! If only one character, which one?
@@artofjhill Hell yeah!! Thats an incredibly hard question because there are so many cool characters, but if I had to choose one I would maybe a more obscure character like Patchface from the books. Such an interesting and really unique character! So him! Others (that are more or less obscure) that I would love from the top of my head: Bloodraven, Euron (book version), Duncan the tall, fAegon, Beric Dondarrion and The Hound.
@@artofjhill But I choose Patchface, but you are free to choose whichever one you want if you feel like another character calls more to you
Does anybody know where in the Tolkien legendarium says that Annatar looked like an elf? I mean in the Silmarillion says elfs where specting a Maia and that is how Sauron tricked them, but I couldn't find anywhere that says that Annatar looked like an elf...
not explicit either way from what I could tell. "fair" and "Maia"
Damn, the intro and voice over 🤩
glad you liked it!
I would LOVE to have is as an Avatar for VR
This is beyond any praise. Getting into the book image 10/10. The work was done at an excellent technical level. It also turned out to be very unique, and not plagiarism from the Shadow of Mordor.
What a pity that in the new series from Amazon we will not see something like this.
I would like to see Morgoth in your performance. Or Sauron in armor from movies and Shadow of Mordor game.
Thank you! I'm glad you like it and thank you for the nice comment
oh we wont? ok then showrunner
fck you XD you're good. hope to get to this level some day. the grind is real
Ha thanks. Keep at it and you’ll be better
Awesome!
i love your work you can make game for this
Did I made a GIF of this video from 16:05 to 16:12 ? I don't see what y'all talking about O:)
The best thing to come out of this (great looking) hot garbage of a show with awful writing, story development, and dialogue is amazing work (as demonstrated in this video) inspired by it. Love your work. Thanks for sharing and inspiring! And there's absolutely no shame in liking what you like! My expectations were just kinda high, I guess.
That sexy guy reference at the end was pretty sexy imo 😌... 😂 AMAZING WORK!
So Amazing ! Bravo mon gars !
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