1:1 "Freeborn" YODA (THE ULTIMATE GOAL) R.I.P STUART FREEBORN
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frosty
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Re: 1:1 "Freeborn" YODA (THE ULTIMATE GOAL) Latest pics "post 719"
Well its looking brilliant, love the likeness and textures, very impresive, makes me want to redo the little guy myself, it has been about fifteen years since i made my first version.
are you using eye blanks or are they sculpted?
Well its looking brilliant, love the likeness and textures, very impresive, makes me want to redo the little guy myself, it has been about fifteen years since i made my first version.
are you using eye blanks or are they sculpted?
vaderdarth
Master Member
Re: 1:1 "Freeborn" YODA (THE ULTIMATE GOAL) Latest pics "post 719"
Can't wait!!!
Can't wait!!!
Re: 1:1 "Freeborn" YODA (THE ULTIMATE GOAL) Latest pics "post 719"
Very cool :lol
Markus
LOL look what I found... another sculptor doing yet another Yoda only using pics of my sculpt as reference!! I love to inspire other artists :lol
Very cool :lol
Markus
vaderdarth
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Re: 1:1 "Freeborn" YODA (THE ULTIMATE GOAL) Latest pics "post 719"
Hey that is cool, almost an animation version of Yoda.
Hey that is cool, almost an animation version of Yoda.
Cyberman
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Re: 1:1 "Freeborn" YODA (THE ULTIMATE GOAL) Latest pics "post 719"
Virtually done now... This PS technic I'm using is finally ironing out the imperfections that were bugging me up until now.
Here we see the head shape finally realised as it should be - just need to refine the detailing at the back
The wrinkles around the eyes and cheeks match up perfectly now
Virtually done now... This PS technic I'm using is finally ironing out the imperfections that were bugging me up until now.
Here we see the head shape finally realised as it should be - just need to refine the detailing at the back
The wrinkles around the eyes and cheeks match up perfectly now
jdford
New Member
Re: 1:1 "Freeborn" YODA (THE ULTIMATE GOAL) Latest pics "post 719"
Truly incredible work. I can't imagine the number of hours you have into this project, but you clearly have the talent, creativity, and single-minded stubborn determination to get the thing as close to 100% screen accurate as possible. Fantastic.
I'd love to see this either static or as a functional puppet under some Arri lights and photographed with at least a RED Epic, if not something more robust (or old school...which would be better, if more expensive/complicated). Drop some old glass on the camera, maybe an old Cooke S4 or even something like an old Zeiss Super Speed. Gawd that would be beautiful, especially if we could build a mock Dagobah set or matte. Heck...even a properly lit chromakey set extension would be cool, but I'd rather see it in a "real" (i.e., physical) location.
After seeing your weathering on previous versions, I can already tell that it'll look fantastic on cinema-grade film (or, more practically, on a proper digital format) IF it's lit properly. Don't listen to any of these jokers complaining about your color scheme and weathering. I've seen one of the original Yoda puppets twelve inches from my nose and yours is pretty darn close (accounting for color fade over 25 years). People expecting it to look like those hand-painted MR blocks of wood they sell in billiards shops just don't understand how objects and materials look under legitimate lights, and through real glass, with an honest-to-God cinema sensor behind it!
Keep doing what you're doing, man. I hope you can figure out how to make this a true, dynamic, performable puppet someday, because I'd love to be able to film one! Building the internal mechanisms sounds like it would be a massive undertaking, especially to get the motion natural, but the payoff would be...incredible.
~J. D.
Truly incredible work. I can't imagine the number of hours you have into this project, but you clearly have the talent, creativity, and single-minded stubborn determination to get the thing as close to 100% screen accurate as possible. Fantastic.
I'd love to see this either static or as a functional puppet under some Arri lights and photographed with at least a RED Epic, if not something more robust (or old school...which would be better, if more expensive/complicated). Drop some old glass on the camera, maybe an old Cooke S4 or even something like an old Zeiss Super Speed. Gawd that would be beautiful, especially if we could build a mock Dagobah set or matte. Heck...even a properly lit chromakey set extension would be cool, but I'd rather see it in a "real" (i.e., physical) location.
After seeing your weathering on previous versions, I can already tell that it'll look fantastic on cinema-grade film (or, more practically, on a proper digital format) IF it's lit properly. Don't listen to any of these jokers complaining about your color scheme and weathering. I've seen one of the original Yoda puppets twelve inches from my nose and yours is pretty darn close (accounting for color fade over 25 years). People expecting it to look like those hand-painted MR blocks of wood they sell in billiards shops just don't understand how objects and materials look under legitimate lights, and through real glass, with an honest-to-God cinema sensor behind it!
Keep doing what you're doing, man. I hope you can figure out how to make this a true, dynamic, performable puppet someday, because I'd love to be able to film one! Building the internal mechanisms sounds like it would be a massive undertaking, especially to get the motion natural, but the payoff would be...incredible.
~J. D.
Cyberman
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Re: 1:1 "Freeborn" YODA (THE ULTIMATE GOAL) Latest pics "post 719"
Thanks guys....
I'm just raining in the final angles and details and my mind is at ease now in the knowledge that I'm on the right track now. This sculpture (Freeborns sculpture) is a thing of beauty in my mind and nothing has ever been more inspirational to me.. Every corner I turn seens to bring me closer to that goal now - not lost and aimless as it was beginning to seem, before.
Thanks guys....
I'm just raining in the final angles and details and my mind is at ease now in the knowledge that I'm on the right track now. This sculpture (Freeborns sculpture) is a thing of beauty in my mind and nothing has ever been more inspirational to me.. Every corner I turn seens to bring me closer to that goal now - not lost and aimless as it was beginning to seem, before.
decaturvader
Sr Member
Re: 1:1 "Freeborn" YODA (THE ULTIMATE GOAL) Latest pics "post 719"
clapping my hands loud Phil...awesome job...
I hope to see a functioning puppet video!!
clapping my hands loud Phil...awesome job...
I hope to see a functioning puppet video!!
Cyberman
Sr Member
Re: 1:1 "Freeborn" YODA (THE ULTIMATE GOAL) Latest pics "post 719"
Thats the aim... and I've got the man behind the original puppet helping me with the animatronics
Heres a pic that shows my hand next to the sculpture for scale (bit of an unusual angle aswell)... The skull I created that fits into this is EXACTLY the same size as the original skull.
The front comp showed up that the neck needed to be widened quite a bit and the eyebrow bulges had to be narrowed from the front
Thats the aim... and I've got the man behind the original puppet helping me with the animatronics
Heres a pic that shows my hand next to the sculpture for scale (bit of an unusual angle aswell)... The skull I created that fits into this is EXACTLY the same size as the original skull.
The front comp showed up that the neck needed to be widened quite a bit and the eyebrow bulges had to be narrowed from the front
mbmcfarland
Sr Member
Re: 1:1 "Freeborn" YODA (THE ULTIMATE GOAL) Latest pics "post 719"
Incredible work, Phil! You have really outdone yourself this time.
Incredible work, Phil! You have really outdone yourself this time.
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