Hey guys, I am new here but have been lurking for some time. I have my B.S. in Graphic Design and my MFA in 3d Animation and Modeling.
I grew up loving Jim Henson, Stan Winston, and anyone who actually made physical characters and beings.
Tron, Star Wars, and anything Jim Henson are the whole reason I went into computer graphics.
Back in February a promotional company did some bit replicas as a contest and only about 20 were made and they were the size of golf balls.
if you are not familiar with the bits, they were the first cg character in film history and there were three stages: neutral, no, and yes.
They only made about 7 in each and they are so rare they go for about $100-$300 for each one and like I said they are the size of a golfball.
I belong to a Tron Forum where me and a friend were tired of everyone in the trading post were trying to acquire these so we took action. A relatively small run.
Maybe it's just the Texas in me, but I thought if we were going to do this, I would definitely want them bigger. So these are actually to what I think are scale to the movie, they are 5" squared and are roughly the size of a softball maybe bigger.
So here is the process, I modeled them in 3d then had them shot through a Zcorp machine.
These were trick to model as the originals were several shapes inside of each other and in order to have them lasered out they had to be one shape.
Here they are in 3d.
Here they are during and after they were lasered out.
Here was the mold process. [...] We didn't know when undertaking this that making the molds was the most expensive part.
So here are the prototypes, they wanted to shoot out a set just to see how they would come out.
So here are the final [ones]. These like I said are pretty big.
So after all these were done, the guy at the toy studio wanted me to design a base in 3d to laser out to hold these, so I designed this base and they will sit on a cradle on a stem that feeds into the base.
The stand will break apart into 3 pieces or they can be shown together.
YouTube - Stands.mov
[...]
For my next undertaking I would love to make an accurate muppet, does anyone have a link to how to make one on here?
I grew up loving Jim Henson, Stan Winston, and anyone who actually made physical characters and beings.
Tron, Star Wars, and anything Jim Henson are the whole reason I went into computer graphics.
Back in February a promotional company did some bit replicas as a contest and only about 20 were made and they were the size of golf balls.
if you are not familiar with the bits, they were the first cg character in film history and there were three stages: neutral, no, and yes.
They only made about 7 in each and they are so rare they go for about $100-$300 for each one and like I said they are the size of a golfball.
I belong to a Tron Forum where me and a friend were tired of everyone in the trading post were trying to acquire these so we took action. A relatively small run.
Maybe it's just the Texas in me, but I thought if we were going to do this, I would definitely want them bigger. So these are actually to what I think are scale to the movie, they are 5" squared and are roughly the size of a softball maybe bigger.
So here is the process, I modeled them in 3d then had them shot through a Zcorp machine.
These were trick to model as the originals were several shapes inside of each other and in order to have them lasered out they had to be one shape.
Here they are in 3d.
Here they are during and after they were lasered out.
Here was the mold process. [...] We didn't know when undertaking this that making the molds was the most expensive part.
So here are the prototypes, they wanted to shoot out a set just to see how they would come out.
So here are the final [ones]. These like I said are pretty big.
So after all these were done, the guy at the toy studio wanted me to design a base in 3d to laser out to hold these, so I designed this base and they will sit on a cradle on a stem that feeds into the base.
The stand will break apart into 3 pieces or they can be shown together.
YouTube - Stands.mov
[...]
For my next undertaking I would love to make an accurate muppet, does anyone have a link to how to make one on here?
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