And here he is! In his grey scale glory:

Over the break I'm going to be painting him digitally and possibly painting the actual sculpt as well, which scares me a bit even though I can just paint over it if it didn't turn out well

After I painted I noticed some cracks on the base which actually help with the feel of broken ground beneath him, but there are also a couple cracks that will need to be patched with apoxy or more sculpy.

I'm very happy with how this turned out, especially as this was my first sculpt since play-doh.

*Photos taken by Laura Crowell*

Done sculpting!

Details first!

 Once I got the gun attached the arms started to look a lot better and didn't need much detailing to finish them off.

 Not much changed on the legs other than a final clean up and some texture as if the armour has dents.

 I ended up destroying an old video card that died on me over the summer and used a couple capacitors as coolant canisters on his back.

 The same video card donated a few cool screws that had springs wrapped around them.

 Both the shield and the gun have pieces of aluminum from the same poor video card and will hopefully look better once he's painted.

Sculpting Time Update!

This is a huge leap ahead in my sculpt, parts of the legs and torso actually look close to finished.

I still need to get the gun attached and finish the arms but once I got detailing I couldn't stop...

I cut away a lot of the excess sculpey from the base partly because I needed some more and so that I could have a complimentary shape on the ground instead of just an entirely covered platform. I will paint the sculpey grey and maybe paint the base black just for some contrast. It will be easier to remove the black part of the base in Photoshop when I go to paint it digitally, leaving me with a nice little platform for my guy to stand on.

I like this picture without the flash more because it gives the sculpt a few more shadows, the other one is more to highlight the details I'm working on.

I had a lot of fun with the back but some of the details got covered up by the cape, which I am still not 100% on. I think I will fix it up and bake it anyways but it will be flimsy enough to remove if I really don't like it.
Other than the arms, everything just needs a touch up before I bake it. After that I should be able to sand anything thats a little rough and triple check everything before I paint.

I found a small screw that I shoved into the visor where I originally had just a round peice of sculpey, I want it to seem like a HUD of some kind and I think the screw will work out in the end better than if I were trying to get detail on a little chunk of sculpey. Hopefully I don't ever realize I needed that screw for something...

I found the little red plastic tube that goes on the end of WD40 cans or compressed air cans and used it to make rivets which I love. As soon as I added some of these in key places the whole sculpt took on a whole new level of realism, I might try to fit them in somewhere else on the armour but I also don't want to over do it.

Sculpting Time

So here is my sculpt for character class so far: (Updated below)

Started with the wire frame,

Tin foil to bulk up the mid section,

Rough bulk with sculpy, (and a happy face for luck)

Then some general details to make sure things are where they should be,

So this is as far as I have gotten, long way to go yet but I'm liking where its heading and ITS FUN!!

Update!

Another blocking day done and here we are:

I'm king of semi happy with this one, I used this as more of a trial to get used to painting in toonboom when I should have been more focused on the acting but I enjoy the final product:

(Mr. Burns quote)

The audio might not be perfect because I had to pull it in separately using premier.

This is a quote from mean girls. I tried to push myself by doing the jump and I think it came out decent in the end.

The audio might not be perfect seeing as I had to drag it in separately using premier.

Hears my first flash voice acting project, the lovely Chris Tucker:

Its a bit choppy at parts because I was still getting used to the program but I think it turned out pretty good, although I don't want to hear his voice for at least 3 years now...