Cleaning and painting eyes, so I can get these guys finished up!

I tried out a slush casting of Sam today and filled him with foam. It all worked rather well. We’re figuring out a paint scheme for him too. This makes me very happy. I wasn’t sure if he was going to be an item we could produce or not. I feel like we’ve saved him!

 My Grand father’s wood carving set. 

Think I’ll do some flat colors as well. You know, to be artsy fartsy. 

I did two castings of the skull today. The mold works great, so I’m very happy about that. The resin flowed well and with a little tilting there’s no air getting trapped. All the details came through. 

The only issue with the casts, there are a ton of tiny surface bubbles. No idea why. I’m using a new resin. Other than that, nothing new. Unfortunately, I’m not able to pressure cast this piece or that would be problem solved. *shrugs* I’ll have to do some research and see if I can’t figure it out. 

There is a porous bone like surface quality to the castings though. So, with some sanding and finishing, maybe it will just work to my advantage :p 

   

Had a sketchy moment where I thought my silicone had fused together. A little work and the two halves came apart. So. Yea. That’s good 😉

Overall, considering I have no idea what I’m doing, I’m happy with the results. One bubble on one of the eye sockets, but that can be cleaned. 
I’ll pour the first casting later this week. Hopefully airflow is good and I won’t have too many issues there!  

 

Finally got a pressure pot! Welcome to 2016 n00b. 

  

  

Skull mold. Not to be confused with skálmöld, an awesome Icelandic band 😉

A n y w a y s. My back is feeling a little better, so I was able to get some work done on this mold!

  

instead of molding the skull, I’ve had to switch gears and do some ZBrush work on another project. We are making a Dorothy doll this year to accompany the Toto doll. She will be a mix of traditional sculpting, fabrication, 3D sculpting, and 3D printing. Again, all based off of my old character designs from school 🙂

I got her boots ZBrushed:

Up next will be her lower arms, then head.