Ehren's little dump
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LOL! Ok so I've been a traditional sculptor in the collectibles industry for the last several years. Primarily with McFarlane toys. Freelanced for several other companies. Over the last couple years I've been making the transition to the digital world. The first couple months were GAWD AWFUL. haha. Making the switch from physical wax to polys was totally mind bending for me. I had to really change the way I approach sculpting. So anyway, here is some of the stuff I've been up to... The first two pieces were done in wax to show where I'm coming from. Rest are digi-
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Here are a couple more. This Minotaur was done for ARH studios and should be printed in the next few months. The second image here is a print of the monster in my first post... thanks for taking a look.
Nice transition to real sculpt/digital
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haha @ bigphun ... why you no like mr Law? hes such a handsome bloke.
o and out of all of these, that sculpt I did of my wife was the most terrifying. can you imagine what would have happened to me if i had fucked it up???! :poly114:
I also had the incredible honor of helping Furio Tedeschi get his Granox printed.
I painted the prototype and did the molding and casting. These are actually available in a limited in run. Trying to help as many talented dudes as possible bring their art to the masses...
http://www.annex-labs.com/
totally psyched to see how you progress, you're already doing so well!
and here is a butt...
Thank-you for sharing.
Awesome pieces in here, I love seeing traditional guys go over to Digital, seem to pick it up so quick.
Don't worry, I was working on one of his robots and my progress completely stalled months ago. There's no time limit on these things!
Like I said, I'll post zbrush renders once it's available to the public. thanks
1st is a commissioned pinup girl based on a Gil Elvgren painting. Client wanted her a little more curvy than she appears in the painting. I just got the 3d output from Ownage. I'll post photos of that soon.
2nd is a torso study for an upcoming project. thanks for checking meowt.
So I've got a bunch of freelance work that I've been cranking on. Its some large 1/4 scale stuff (meaning the figures will be about 18 inches tall when complete). The client needs these done in wax. So I figured I'd skin several cats at the same time. I bought myself a cheap Airwolf filament extruder printer. So what I'm doing is sculpting in zbrush, dynameshing the final sculpt (a quick dirty way to create a single printable shell from several merged subtools.) Then decimating and exporting. Then I bring the stl in to Netfabb and scale it and fix bad edges and fill holes. From there I export the fixed stl to MatterControl. This is open source software used to slice up the the sculpt and create printable layers. From there it goes to the printer. Once the print is complete I make a silicone mold and cast it in wax. Because these printers are relatively low res the wax will need to be cleaned up. Which of course is where my traditional sculpting skills come in. It may seem like a slightly backwards way to work, but its actually a great of saving time in the end because implementing zbrush in the work flow allows me to cut my sculpting time in half. Especially when working on these huge sculptures. This particular piece is a print of my Daenerys head. Its was done as a trial. I was happy with the results. It's about 90mm in height. I'm sure I can achieve better results by tweaking some things with the printer. these were the stock settings..
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the activity in the hangouts tends to go up and down, but if you can get in while others are in there, i'm sure they'd love to see how you work, and in turn you can pick their brains about the tech side of things.
alternatively, just send people messages man, nobody here bites... well, not hard anyway :P
I'm pretty stoked on these two Frazetta sculpts I've been commissioned with. A client of mine (ARH studios) bought the licenses to reproduce some of his paintings as statues. I was totally blown away when he entrusted these two to me. The Barbarian and the Death Dealer. A couple things make this even more humbling for me. First of all, its the first time since Mr Frazetta's death that his family has approved licensing of his product. Secondly, these two particular statues were reproduced years ago by Clayburn Moore and Randy Bowen who happen to be two of the most well known names in collectibles. So here I am totally angst out with these huge shoes to fill. The other issue was that my client needed these statues to be finished in WAX. Furthermore, these are 1/4 scale statues meaning the Barbarian sculpt is about 26 inches (66cm) tall and the Death Dealer is 32 (82cm). So... Holy crap. I also am doing these as freelance projects while juggling my fulltime job at McFarlane. Lots of late nights. I knew right away that I was going to have to implement digital modeling in my workflow if I was going to get these done on time. Working in wax is just too damn slow. So I've been using the same workflow with these as I used get that wax casting of the Daenerys head I already posted. Sculpt in zbrush, break the model down, process in netfabb and print all the pieces with MatterControl my Airwolf printer. I have been running my printer just about nonstop for the last 3 weeks. My buddy Jeremy Monz has been helping me make the silicone molds of all the parts. Then I'm casting them in wax and assembling and cleaning everything up. It's incredibly time consuming tedious work but I can't even imagine doing this without ZBrush and Maya. So here is my final model of Death Dealer before breaking it down for printing. Any details that are missing (like the chain mail skirt and the deco on the saddle) will be added in wax. I'm printing a thin sheet of chain mail links that I mold and cast in resin. Then they can be cut in to strips and laid on the skirt. I also posted a photo of the Barbarian during the early stages of the wax work. I've really gotta light the afterburners on these right now. I'm supposed to meet with the Frazetta family at the beginning of July and then these pieces will be going to San Deigo Comic con at the end of the month. YIKES!
Hey guys, I haven't checked in for a while. My life has taken some pretty drastic turns over the last couples years. In June I decided to leave my gig at ARH studios and I joined the small collectibles sculpting department at Blizzard. I work with Dominic Qwek and Brian Fay every day, utilizing all the skills I've picked up over the last 13 years in the collectibles industry. It's a pretty interesting gig.