davidJurassic
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I think this is the first time I've created a thread here... Thought I'd share something I've been trying to get made for a little while now.
I've always wanted a 1:1 scale replica of the Baby Raptor Hatchling from Jurassic Park. That scene fascinated me as a child..
So I managed to get a Baby Raptor casting from Prop Builder, I was really impressed with the quality and detail. I believe it's a SWS casting, it matches the sculpts seen in Cinefex.
So then I got in touch with Roostercat, an incredible sculpter/painter and a real wizard with all things dinosaur. I asked him if he'd be interested in taking the casting and reposing it, creating an egg shell for it. His work is incredible, if you're not familiar with his work, I suggest you look him up!
Turns out someone had 3d scanned one of Prop Builder's castings and created some textures for it. I sourced these for reference, but adjusted the colours to give Roostercat something to match.
My adjusted version below
So I waited patiently for a couple of months, and then a parcel arrived from Roostercat. Hooray! I opened it up, and to my shock the sculpt had been broken in transit. I was pretty gutted.
The arms and legs had snapped clean off. Also the egg was cracked at the bottom, and the sculpt was coming through. It was all suspended in this red liquid latex to represent the blood and egg sac we see in the film. The paintjob was fantastic, but I was just so dissapointed to see the fella in pieces.
Determined, I set to work removing the hatchling from the fractured egg. Patiently I fished out all the parts of the arms and legs, some of the snapped off fingers, and over the course of a week glued him back together. It was a delicate process, there wasn't much surface area to glue on the arms and legs, so quite often I would angle the casting so that the arm or leg being glued was upright in the air, letting gravity do the work to keep the limb attached.
Once all the limbs were back on, I replaced the guy in his egg, and cemented him in the bottom with some air drying latex mixed with red acrylic paint. This looked like a bloody goo in the base of the egg, and helped stabilise the whole thing. It also held together the fractured pieces of egg, but the cracks were still prominent outside.
So today I finished the guy off. I used some air drying body putty to patch up the fractures on the egg, sanded it down, and then painted with acrylics. The original paint job was pretty awesome on the egg, but I felt there needed to be more grey veins, so I used this as an opportunity to improve the paintjob a bit too....
I sourced some fake moss and fake fern leaves for the base, aswell as some flower arranging foam. Then I placed it in a nice acrylic doll display case.
Special thanks to Roostercat for an awesome job. All I did was a repair job on his already stunning work. But it was satisfying to get the little guy to this stage. I'm really happy with him
I've always wanted a 1:1 scale replica of the Baby Raptor Hatchling from Jurassic Park. That scene fascinated me as a child..
So I managed to get a Baby Raptor casting from Prop Builder, I was really impressed with the quality and detail. I believe it's a SWS casting, it matches the sculpts seen in Cinefex.
So then I got in touch with Roostercat, an incredible sculpter/painter and a real wizard with all things dinosaur. I asked him if he'd be interested in taking the casting and reposing it, creating an egg shell for it. His work is incredible, if you're not familiar with his work, I suggest you look him up!
Turns out someone had 3d scanned one of Prop Builder's castings and created some textures for it. I sourced these for reference, but adjusted the colours to give Roostercat something to match.
My adjusted version below
So I waited patiently for a couple of months, and then a parcel arrived from Roostercat. Hooray! I opened it up, and to my shock the sculpt had been broken in transit. I was pretty gutted.
The arms and legs had snapped clean off. Also the egg was cracked at the bottom, and the sculpt was coming through. It was all suspended in this red liquid latex to represent the blood and egg sac we see in the film. The paintjob was fantastic, but I was just so dissapointed to see the fella in pieces.
Determined, I set to work removing the hatchling from the fractured egg. Patiently I fished out all the parts of the arms and legs, some of the snapped off fingers, and over the course of a week glued him back together. It was a delicate process, there wasn't much surface area to glue on the arms and legs, so quite often I would angle the casting so that the arm or leg being glued was upright in the air, letting gravity do the work to keep the limb attached.
Once all the limbs were back on, I replaced the guy in his egg, and cemented him in the bottom with some air drying latex mixed with red acrylic paint. This looked like a bloody goo in the base of the egg, and helped stabilise the whole thing. It also held together the fractured pieces of egg, but the cracks were still prominent outside.
So today I finished the guy off. I used some air drying body putty to patch up the fractures on the egg, sanded it down, and then painted with acrylics. The original paint job was pretty awesome on the egg, but I felt there needed to be more grey veins, so I used this as an opportunity to improve the paintjob a bit too....
I sourced some fake moss and fake fern leaves for the base, aswell as some flower arranging foam. Then I placed it in a nice acrylic doll display case.
Special thanks to Roostercat for an awesome job. All I did was a repair job on his already stunning work. But it was satisfying to get the little guy to this stage. I'm really happy with him
