Hey,
Before I decided to join to the sculpting challenge with theme Magical Staff, I was thinking about how to express Magical Staff in different way. And I was playing with idea – Organic Staff. My idea was Mr. Giger and his Alien art.
To most important rule of the challenge was to create a sculpt (no texture and postpro in photoshop) in 5 hours from assigned base meshes. The base meshes were 3 simple boxes and one cuboid – which shall create base for the staff. From the start I knew to create Facehugger (8 long legs and one long joined tail) just from simple box mesh will be difficlut. Any retopolgy or adding edgeloops were not allowed.
- It took me 4:40
- The video is 2,5x faster as I am
I. Part
Firstly, I set up whole scene, especially shortcuts for the brushes which I used the mostly. After I created any base of staff Iand I started with modeling Facehugger. I did the base for body, legs and tail. The problem is, if you have mesh which isn’t enough subdivided, you cannot make details on the places where you need or you cannot make a good pose for the model. Because of this problem I tried to achieve (mostly with brushes Smooth, Move) a topology where it was needed. I used a lot Pinch brush for a tail.
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II. Part
When I finished the Facehugger I continued with modeling the Staff. In the part where is egg conected with Staff I made some “rootage”. For more variations I made hanging rootage on the end.
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III. Part
I posed the Facehugger just with masking areas and Moveing, Rotating them. I wanted to avoid posing another Fhugger from start again, so I deleted the old one and copied aready posed Fhugger and then just updated pose.
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IV. Part
When I finished the other end of the stalf I started posing te tail. Now with ZSphere. I exported and posed a lower lvl and than reimport current level.
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V. Part
After tail I did rest of the stuff. I havent time so I had to be fast. After all I made some base (piece of ground) for staff. I though I’ll be on 1st, 2nd or 3rd place, the price was 7″ 3D Print (bacause of that I did some base-ground). Finally Im 4th.
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