JFcustom
Sr Member
Hi everybody,
I must say I like following your builds in progress, and I often motivate everyone contacting me to open his own wip thread here. But in my hypocrisy it's something I rarely do myself... So here I come with my present occupation. Feel free to ask in this thread any question about this buitd, I'll do my best to reply quickly.
So, I've been ordered a couple of masks for a bollywood dance show. In fact, my wife heard about a potential need of masks, and said her husband will do that...
I'm glad to see she believes in me, and it makes me forgot for a minute that this order puts me into deep panic.
So I spend two weeks panicking.
When my timetable becomes more suitable I study the project closer.
I get in touch with the boss. She would like something like that :
or like that :
(I know it's entirely not the same thing at all, but you know, every bosses are alike...)
...and we finally reach the agreement that I feared from the beginning : I will do it all my way. It will be simpler. And go for kind of a Ganesh.
If I ever reach this result I'll be happy :
She shows me a trailer from Any Body Can Dance, a bollywood movie next to come, and I snap this sample :
Blender is now my only friend.
I spend hours browsing elephant pics as references, untill I feel like having a two feet wide head seems normal. But it helps me to make my crumpled piece of mesh look a bit more realistic :
It looks like an elephant, I stop here. I'm the first to be surprised it took me less than a day. I can't imagine what a guy who uses this software every day could have covered within such a laptime...
It seems we need a "golden hat", in lack of a better word :
and a virtual fit test :
Finally I hold it :
Since I plan to use once more my sempiternal 6mm foam from Domyos, here comes the funniest part -> jumping from the first to the second pic below :
Print...
Now let's draw our glue gun...
These trunks are a nightmare, but it's fine if you don't look too close.
The more the head is complete, the more it's hard to make clean seams, because the bottom apperture is the only way to access the inner head, and this damned apperture gets narrower and narrower...
Attaching the hears is a bouble nightmare.
Both heads are over.
Now I cut up holes for the eyes, and build the frame of the hat :
Then I use the wasted foam pieces to freehand some ornaments to wrap around the main crown, some kind of things that roughly recall those I saw onto the thousands of pics I browsed earlier.
I glue some magnets on the hat and under the candlesticks. These candlesticks are made from two misscaled pieces of Iron Man mark 4 hip pods. ^^
Then, once cold, I will use my sharp blade to thin down the overthickness of glue.
One will need to put his head inside these pachyderm, I can only imagine a long zip fly at the back side.
Still from wasted foam, I cut up four simplistic eyes.
I put a velcro spot on the front of the head and under the... sunshade ? for the hat to hold in place.
As I expected, obstructing the eyes holes and we can't see through the mask at all... I grab a piece of packing wraper, tape it upon the area that match the level of my eyes when I wear the head, and I draw a grid. Then I copy it on a paper sheet to draw it cleaner, and I cut it up.
The next stage must NOT be missed :
I use seamstress pins that I pin through the foam, with a 90° angle, at the corners of the grid.
Now I can draw the holes of the grid on the outer side of the elephant, AND also, by joining the tips of the pins with a sharpie, I draw the grid on the inner side too.
I take my second glue gun, the one loaded with hard glue. Hard glue sticks are opaque white, and just as rigid as your sharpie. It's a kind of glue that can't be bent. I will use it as standalone to apply a mesh behind the bars of the grid and around the grid, so the thin foam rungs that will remain will stay rigid enough not to get ripped by accident. I must apply my hard glue BEFORE carving the grid. If I do it when the holes are present, the heat will distort the rungs.
And here I am so far.
I can light up my fake candle ! ^^ and I double this pic for his twin brother :
Tomorrow I should start with rubber coating, then painting...
(To be followed...)
I must say I like following your builds in progress, and I often motivate everyone contacting me to open his own wip thread here. But in my hypocrisy it's something I rarely do myself... So here I come with my present occupation. Feel free to ask in this thread any question about this buitd, I'll do my best to reply quickly.
So, I've been ordered a couple of masks for a bollywood dance show. In fact, my wife heard about a potential need of masks, and said her husband will do that...
I'm glad to see she believes in me, and it makes me forgot for a minute that this order puts me into deep panic.
So I spend two weeks panicking.
When my timetable becomes more suitable I study the project closer.
I get in touch with the boss. She would like something like that :
or like that :
(I know it's entirely not the same thing at all, but you know, every bosses are alike...)
...and we finally reach the agreement that I feared from the beginning : I will do it all my way. It will be simpler. And go for kind of a Ganesh.
If I ever reach this result I'll be happy :
She shows me a trailer from Any Body Can Dance, a bollywood movie next to come, and I snap this sample :
Blender is now my only friend.
I spend hours browsing elephant pics as references, untill I feel like having a two feet wide head seems normal. But it helps me to make my crumpled piece of mesh look a bit more realistic :
It looks like an elephant, I stop here. I'm the first to be surprised it took me less than a day. I can't imagine what a guy who uses this software every day could have covered within such a laptime...
It seems we need a "golden hat", in lack of a better word :
and a virtual fit test :
Finally I hold it :
Since I plan to use once more my sempiternal 6mm foam from Domyos, here comes the funniest part -> jumping from the first to the second pic below :
Print...
Now let's draw our glue gun...
These trunks are a nightmare, but it's fine if you don't look too close.
The more the head is complete, the more it's hard to make clean seams, because the bottom apperture is the only way to access the inner head, and this damned apperture gets narrower and narrower...
Attaching the hears is a bouble nightmare.
Both heads are over.
Now I cut up holes for the eyes, and build the frame of the hat :
Then I use the wasted foam pieces to freehand some ornaments to wrap around the main crown, some kind of things that roughly recall those I saw onto the thousands of pics I browsed earlier.
I glue some magnets on the hat and under the candlesticks. These candlesticks are made from two misscaled pieces of Iron Man mark 4 hip pods. ^^
Then, once cold, I will use my sharp blade to thin down the overthickness of glue.
One will need to put his head inside these pachyderm, I can only imagine a long zip fly at the back side.
Still from wasted foam, I cut up four simplistic eyes.
I put a velcro spot on the front of the head and under the... sunshade ? for the hat to hold in place.
As I expected, obstructing the eyes holes and we can't see through the mask at all... I grab a piece of packing wraper, tape it upon the area that match the level of my eyes when I wear the head, and I draw a grid. Then I copy it on a paper sheet to draw it cleaner, and I cut it up.
The next stage must NOT be missed :
I use seamstress pins that I pin through the foam, with a 90° angle, at the corners of the grid.
Now I can draw the holes of the grid on the outer side of the elephant, AND also, by joining the tips of the pins with a sharpie, I draw the grid on the inner side too.
I take my second glue gun, the one loaded with hard glue. Hard glue sticks are opaque white, and just as rigid as your sharpie. It's a kind of glue that can't be bent. I will use it as standalone to apply a mesh behind the bars of the grid and around the grid, so the thin foam rungs that will remain will stay rigid enough not to get ripped by accident. I must apply my hard glue BEFORE carving the grid. If I do it when the holes are present, the heat will distort the rungs.
And here I am so far.
I can light up my fake candle ! ^^ and I double this pic for his twin brother :
Tomorrow I should start with rubber coating, then painting...
(To be followed...)
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