Another Animation Maquette....

Here are a couple of photos of my next pig maquette.

Ready for Moulding and Casting

Here's the finished bust of Louie from my animated 3D short. I'll be making a mould and casting him in resin soon. In the meantime I'm working on a second pig and a new website. I had so much fun sculpting this guy and wish there were more hours in the day to do more. Maybe I'll do a series.....

I snapped my "G" string tonight.... No not that kind. I haven't played guitar since I was in grade 6, but I still need a "G" string. I use it as a tool for sculpting the finishing details, and unfortunately none of the music stores are open this late at night. Looks like I'll just have to finish the sculpture tomorrow.

Animation Maquette Almost Complete

Just a few more little things to be done before I consider him finished.

This is a clay sculpt, but will ultimately be cast in resin for the Kickstarter campaign.

Louie Animation Maquette for Kickstarter Campaign

I've had a few days away from the sculpt, so I thought I should put some time into it today. Still very much a work in progress. I'm not completely happy with his expression yet.

Animation Maquette

I am putting together a Kickstarter campaign for my animated short and will be offering this character bust as one of the incentives. This is Louie who I started sculpting today. I will post again when he's nearing completion. He's sculpted with Chavant NSP medium and I'll be casting him in resin.

ZBrush 4R6: ZRemesher

I just got my upgrade to Zbrush 4R6 and was anxious to try the new ZRemesher plug in. WOW! It really is a game changer. I used the default settings on the latest character and within 2 minutes it had done a pretty impressive job. It needs some refinements as it's not 100 percent spot on, but it's really close. My original sculpt had 1.8 million polygons. It's now down to 18,000. With a little tweaking, this could be a fully animatable mesh! Kudos to Pixologic for an awesome fabulous update!

More Zbrush Sketches

I haven't touched Zbrush in a few weeks and was itching to do something to exercise my digital sculpting. I'll visit this character again when I get the chance as I'd like to do a better job of the rendering.