Bob the Alien (Giger inspired Alien)

[Leigh]

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Your doing a Fantastic job Daredevil & your quick!! :thumbsup

Is it just me that's super slow at making Aliens?? Everyone else seems to do it in a quarter of the time :confused

Anyhoo...

 

[Nwerke]

Re: Bob the Alien (Giger inspired Alien) Sculpting finished page 45

OH MY GOD!

ahem, sorry, just a placeholder there while I composed my thoughts...then I got distracted...oh look, a frog...why is France so far away...? :lol

It looks swear swearey swearingly bloody fantastic, man.

 

[skiffy]

Re: Bob the Alien (Giger inspired Alien) Sculpting finished page 45

Good god Leigh, that's breathtakingly wonderful. Congratulations on your progress and methodology!

 

[daredevil665]

Re: Bob the Alien (Giger inspired Alien) Sculpting finished page 45

Hi Leigh, my job is fast because it is not clean and precise as yours, besides I avoid all the passages to realize moldings, but a sculpture stays only for me. For example, the retractable faucis I am satisfied me with an inferior quality and I don't put even perhaps her. And to think that I live to 17 km from the country of Rambaldi, that has planned and realized the mechanism! However I envy a lot you both for the cleverness in to sculpting, and for the technical knowledge. However, also only to look at your job I have understood a lot of things.

also the hand is not very precise, but to see a whole monster of 2.40 feet, can go.



Who knows, perhaps one day I will also have him me.

 

[Leigh]

Re: Bob the Alien (Giger inspired Alien) Sculpting finished page 45

Beautiful job. It never finishes surprising me and to thrill me. If I had not met this post, I don't know if I would have succeeded in continuing my sculpture. Besides I have taken many you sprout and measures from your job together with that of Yoshihiko Sano and from that original. I don't intend me of mold and relative materials. I wonder me if I can also to build mold to end sculpture. Surely it will be very complicated. According to you, will it be possible holding whole the sculpture?:confused

Hi Leigh, my job is fast because it is not clean and precise as yours, besides I avoid all the passages to realize moldings, but a sculpture stays only for me. For example, the retractable faucis I am satisfied me with an inferior quality and I don't put even perhaps her. And to think that I live to 17 km from the country of Rambaldi, that has planned and realized the mechanism! However I envy a lot you both for the cleverness in to sculpting, and for the technical knowledge. However, also only to look at your job I have understood a lot of things.

also the hand is not very precise, but to see a whole monster of 2.40 feet, can go.

Who knows, perhaps one day I will also have him me.

OK, I'm finding the translation difficult to understand :$

Firstly, Thank you for your kind words
I'm very happy that my thread here has inspired you to continue your sculpture
Sano has done a wonderful job of his sculpture & I think it would be very hard to beat by anybody but H R Giger. I would recommend using images of the original for most of your reference, the original is still the best! & you can put your own style into it.

I'm not sure if your saying you want to mould your sculpture or not? Your asking me a question I think?? but I don't understand :$

I'm very impressed with your sculpture & that your making a full Alien, its a lot of work!

Keep up the good work :thumbsup

 

[sogonoraa]

Re: Bob the Alien (Giger inspired Alien) Sculpting finished page 45

Truly stunning!!

 

[locusta]

Re: Bob the Alien (Giger inspired Alien) Sculpting finished page 45

The casts are so clean. Impressive! And you don´t use any vacuum casting? I´m speechless.

 

[daredevil665]

Re: Bob the Alien (Giger inspired Alien) Sculpting finished page 45

OK, I'm finding the translation difficult to understand :$

Firstly, Thank you for your kind words
I'm very happy that my thread here has inspired you to continue your sculpture
Sano has done a wonderful job of his sculpture & I think it would be very hard to beat by anybody but H R Giger. I would recommend using images of the original for most of your reference, the original is still the best! & you can put your own style into it.

I'm not sure if your saying you want to mould your sculpture or not? Your asking me a question I think?? but I don't understand :$

I'm very impressed with your sculpture & that your making a full Alien, its a lot of work!

Keep up the good work :thumbsup

Yes, I am asking you if I can make molds even after I finished sculpture, leaving the entire sculpture. I believe that I will subdivide however with more molds, despite the use of silicone rubber, for example, between the pipes on the back. In your opinion, is it possible?

 

[Leigh]

Re: Bob the Alien (Giger inspired Alien) Sculpting finished page 45

Thanks for the kind words Guy's

Yes, I am asking you if I can make molds even after I finished sculpture, leaving the entire sculpture. I believe that I will subdivide however with more molds, despite the use of silicone rubber, for example, between the pipes on the back. In your opinion, is it possible?

OK, from this I'm getting that you want to build your alien as one big piece, with no removable parts like head, Arms, tubes, tail etc & you want to create moulds from it.
I would say... yes! anything is possible if you have the patience. It would be very difficult I expect but not impossible :unsure
In my opinion it would be easier to build your sculpture in sections that can be moulded individually, I'm no expert though

Perhaps someone with a little more knowledge could chime in here...

 

[Nwerke]

Re: Bob the Alien (Giger inspired Alien) Sculpting finished page 45

<splutter!> :lol

C'mon Leigh, it's pretty clear you've left most of us in the dust by this point. :lol

I do agree though - it's much harder to mould something big or complex in one piece than it is to break it up.

 

[daredevil665]

Re: Bob the Alien (Giger inspired Alien) Sculpting finished page 45

Thanks for the kind words Guy's




OK, from this I'm getting that you want to build your alien as one big piece, with no removable parts like head, Arms, tubes, tail etc & you want to create moulds from it.
I would say... yes! anything is possible if you have the patience. It would be very difficult I expect but not impossible :unsure
In my opinion it would be easier to build your sculpture in sections that can be moulded individually, I'm no expert though

Perhaps someone with a little more knowledge could chime in here...

Ok, thanks a lot of your opinions. soon I must go crazy for the tail

 

[Leigh]

Re: Bob the Alien (Giger inspired Alien) Sculpting finished page 45

I've been doing a lot of moulding & casting lately, I felt I needed a little break from that.

So I've had a little play with the clay & some other bits n bob's:





This is still very much a WIP but its a start & I'm quite liking how it looks atm

Your thoughts are welcome as usual & be brutal!

 

[garlicbread]

Re: Bob the Alien (Giger inspired Alien) Sculpting finished page 45

Looking good Leigh. I am liking it also.

 

[vaderdarth]

Re: Bob the Alien (Giger inspired Alien) Sculpting finished page 45

looking really nice!!!!

 

[Nwerke]

Re: Bob the Alien (Giger inspired Alien) Sculpting finished page 45

Don't have access to my ref right now, but will take a look later on and give you oodles of tough criticism for all the many areas which could use improvement.

:lol

It's looking stellar, you goof!

 

[Leigh]

Re: Bob the Alien (Giger inspired Alien) Sculpting finished page 45

Many thanks Guy's

I guess I'm on the right track then

From the reference I have there are three different faces for the original Alien, so I was a little unsure if I had chosen wisely or not. I may add some of the smaller features of the Rambaldi face :unsure I'll try them out & see how they look

I've been focusing on only one side of the face for now & when I'm completely happy I'll copy it on to the other side

The latest:

 

[Archive&Future]

Re: Bob the Alien (Giger inspired Alien) Sculpting finished page 45

Scary as hell!!

 

[Veedox]

Re: Bob the Alien (Giger inspired Alien) Sculpting finished page 45

IF I were to nitpick:

The wire for the lip support too thick? Not really sure if yours is, just visually to me, it looks too thick.

Also, those were meant to move. Are they sticking out enough? Would they clear the teeth if closed?

Those factors would greatly change these look of the mouth and both are things to consider.

 

[nmasi]

Re: Bob the Alien (Giger inspired Alien) Sculpting finished page 45

What if you eliminated the hinge in the jaw and instead formed the tongue out of a softer rubber with a flexible wire core that allowed the jaw to be posed?

 

[Nwerke]

Re: Bob the Alien (Giger inspired Alien) Sculpting finished page 45

Veedox, some of the versions of the original had thicker lips. This is fine IMO.

Leigh, wondering if it might be a good idea to start at least the front part of the dome while you're doing the face itself. Might help you balance things out more against the ref, if that makes sense?

Found some of my ref but not all of it. Some seems to show differences between some versions of the tongue. Some pieces look like they have more of a crescent shape in the incisors, similar to the main upper and lower jaws. Also, maybe longer canines on some of the pieces, or am I imagining it? Minor differences and not all refs show them, so I guess different pulls varied here too.