DEATH IS INFINITE: Giant Squadt project finished!

fplus wrote:Making wings:

I took more pics than this of my process, but my phone crashed over the weekend, and for some reason, some of them got lost.

But the basic Idea is still here.

I start out with a simple wing shape made out of tinfoil:


I then do the first row of feathers, and allow it to cure and get the basic curvature before doing the rest of the feathers on that side, then that cures and I repeat the process on the back side. this process takes a couple days, but doing it in these small phases saves me lots of trouble from accidentally smooshing things or getting weird asymmetry from trying to get them all banged out in one go.




awesome

I wanted these wings to look a bit ragged and kind of crow-like, and I also wanted them to have a good span, so I decided to do a larger feather, which I think fits the character very well compared to the smaller feathers I have done in the past.

Also, I made some changes to the character as well, I thought it would be more fitting if he had sleeves to his robe as opposed to the chain mail arms in the sketch, making him a more proper looking mage. I wanted him to have a pose of kind of floating and casting a spell, the collector suggested haveing an arm stick out, which I loved the idea of, so I reworked that arm as well. Now he's really starting to take shape, at about 90% sculpted or so.











Here you can see the last phase of the wings where I added feathers over the post that goes into the back, giving the fairly heavy wing a bit more surface are to sit against the body and a better fit in general. The wings will be detached for shipping and need to be glued back on when the owner receives it:



I've also started the scenery base, cut I'll save that update for another day when it's a bit further along.

supershallow wrote:the jaw is so badass! does his arms move?

supershallow wrote:the jaw is so badass! does his arms move?

ilovefreestufftoo wrote:Is it further along for pics of the base yet?

edstuff wrote:I hate to do this to you man but your idea on how to make wings....STOLEN! Yup I'm totally stealing that idea the next time I need to make wings. I'm sorry, but that's what you get for making kickass customs.

fplus wrote:

edstuff wrote:I hate to do this to you man but your idea on how to make wings....STOLEN! Yup I'm totally stealing that idea the next time I need to make wings. I'm sorry, but that's what you get for making kickass customs.

LOL, for second I read that as if I had stolen the idea from somewhere, like when Drilone suggested that I got the idea from Diablo 3, because Diablo 3 invented wings (or anything in the fantasy genre).

Have at brother! I 've never been one to keep my "secrets" too guarded. I always thought, if someone can do what I do better than me, then more power to them. lol