Wednesday 7 November 2012

Odin


Odin (also known as Wodin, Woden, Wodan, The Wanderer, The Wise and several dozen other names) is the chief god in Norse mythology. He is the eldest of three brothers and the son of Borr and the Jotun woman Bestla. Wednesday is named after him.

Later, after the events of this film Odin is to become the God of Warfare and Wisdom and the leader of the Aesir tribe. Besides fathering Thor, he becomes known as a wise man who often travels the world in the shape on an old man. He sacrifices an eye in exchange for wisdom, acquires an eight-legged horse that can fly, and two ravens that gives him information from all over the world.

This film however takes place before this while Odin is a young man. With both eyes intact he starts a perpetual mortal feud between Aesir and Jotnar and creates the world.

His design is fairly simple with not much detail as he will move a lot, and that makes animating him easier. Noses however tend not to move much, so I like making detailed noses on my characters while keeping the rest of the face simple, particularly eyes and eyebrows needs to be easy to move.

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