Last of Us Clicker Face Mask

Rens

Active Member

• Mar 5, 2014

• #1

I've started working on a Clicker mask from Last of Us.

The sculpt is made of Monster Clay and I intend to cast it, though I'm not sure in what yet. Some kind of foam urethane, maybe? I don't have a lot of experience with foam latex. Would love some ideas.

I'm trying to make my own interpretation of a clicker rather than a strict recreation of the in-game model. I'm drawing on shelf fungi and portabella mushrooms for inspiration.

I roughed in the form:


Today I started playing with the textures


I'm hoping to finish it up by the end of the month/mid April
Thanks for looking!

 

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JonKross

Active Member

• Mar 5, 2014

• #2

Tell me you played it Rens and now no other game compares to it. The game is a freaking masterpiece, and now i'm terrified of the Cordyceps fungus. lol

I'm super excited about this sculpt Rens, it's off to an awesome start.
I've got no advice for ya 'cause the whole casting process is new to me. But I will cheer from the sidelines and look forward to see the process. lol

 

postmanpat

Sr Member

• Mar 5, 2014

• #3

Looking great so far. Look forward to following your progress on this build. I absolutely loved that game......perfection!!

 

Rens

Active Member

• Mar 6, 2014

• #4

Thanks guys!

@ JonKross, my husband and I tag team games... one plays while the other watches. So I watched on Last of Us while he played and he watched when I played Assassin's Creed Brotherhood (or my second playthrough on Skyrim, I can't remember). Last of Us was amazing (though I was tearing up by the end). When we get our copy back (we lent it to a friend), I think I'm gonna give it a playthrough myself, if I can emotionally handle it

 

Rens

Active Member

• Mar 6, 2014

• #5

more progress today! It's fun working on something that is so asymmetrical after doing so many symmetrical pieces!

 

JonKross

Active Member

• Mar 6, 2014

• #6

Nice flow Rens, you somehow made a blooming fungus from a head a beautiful thing.:thumbsup

 

JDCUK

New Member

• Mar 7, 2014

• #7

Great sculpt! Really interested to see how this comes out

 

Rens

Active Member

• Mar 8, 2014

• #8

JonKross said:

Nice flow Rens, you somehow made a blooming fungus from a head a beautiful thing.:thumbsup

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It is very refreshing to work on something that is so organic. I am really enjoying playing with the different shapes

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JDCUK said:

Great sculpt! Really interested to see how this comes out

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Thanks!

 

lovelyandy

Well-Known Member

• Mar 9, 2014

• #9

looking forward to seeing the progress on this, anything Last of Us is good in my book (except maybe the unecessary movie )

 

mudget

Active Member

• Mar 10, 2014

• #10

awesome work, and the texture looks great! TLOU is definitely one of my all-time favourite games (all of the cries). Look forward to seeing the finished piece!

 

Rens

Active Member

• Mar 12, 2014

• #11

Thanks guys!

I had to take off on this build for a few days while working on another commission, but I was able to work on some texture/form today.

Also, I had a talk with my Smooth-On supplier about a solution for a casting material. After looking at some samples and talking with my guy, I think I'm going to go with Smooth-On's FlexFoam-it (#14). It seems to have the right degree of flexibility combined with a relatively smooth finish (a little bit porous is okay since, you know, fungus) and it can take the So-Strong dyes and acrylic paint. And I can use it with the mold type I'm used to working with, so bonus!

Pictures... Not a whole lot that's different, just more texture/some modified forms

 

JonKross

Active Member

• Mar 13, 2014

• #12

Nice, it's coming along Rens! Make sure to take a lot of pics of the casting process, can't wait.

 

JDCUK

New Member

• Mar 14, 2014

• #13

Would you consider doing a run of these masks? I want to start a Last of Us collection and this would be epic!

 

The Schlitzie

Sr Member

RPF PREMIUM MEMBER

• Mar 16, 2014

• #14

I love the texture work! Keep it up!

 

Rens

Active Member

• Mar 17, 2014

• #15

JonKross said:

Nice, it's coming along Rens! Make sure to take a lot of pics of the casting process, can't wait.

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Thanks! I'll definitely be documenting the casting process

 

Rens

Active Member

• Mar 19, 2014

• #16

The Schlitzie said:

I love the texture work! Keep it up!

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Thanks! The textures are a lot of fun. I'm using a combination of tooling and stamps.

Here's some progress on the back of the mask. I hope to wrap up sculpting this week!

 

AzurasStar

New Member

• Mar 20, 2014

• #17

That's some really great work. Are you using any real-life fungus for reference? I always thought clicker faces highly resembled Chicken of the Woods.

 

Rens

Active Member

• Mar 24, 2014

• #18

AzurasStar said:

That's some really great work. Are you using any real-life fungus for reference? I always thought clicker faces highly resembled Chicken of the Woods.

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I'll have to check that one out. I've mostly been using shelf fungi and portabellas for reference so far.

 

The Schlitzie

Sr Member

RPF PREMIUM MEMBER

• Mar 24, 2014

• #19

They do resemble Chantrelles a lot!

 

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Wes R

Legendary Member

• Mar 25, 2014

• #20

Which means that in the game the fungus mutated because the real thing infecting ants/spiders basically looks like weird stem mushrooms