Day 7 of my 30 Day 3D challenge and things are beginning to get serious. I tend to spend more and more time on a single project, I am already feeling exhausted. Anyway, we’ll see how far I’ll go.
Today I sculpted baby Mike Wazowsky from Monsters inc. Let me start by saying that I loooooove Mike Wazowski, I have watched Monsters inc. and Monsters University about 50 times, I even have a Mike Wazowski shaped pillow I hug when I sleep. (Yes, really!) So I started today’s challenge determined to give my best self. 🙂
Generally, it was a very ambitious project, that, technically speaking, I wasn’t quite ready for. But … he was Mike! I had to make an effort.
The first task was to make a nice eye of cource! Since it’s Mike’s trademark. There were no shortcuts here. I ended up painting the eye from scratch. Felt momentarily in my comfort zone. But I dismissed the feeling, because the whole point of this challenge is to push me out of my comfort zone.
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And then came Mike himself. I normally have no problem getting the likeness of my subject when working in 2D. With 3D … it is more complex. My main issue is that you can do the same thing in countless ways, and you need to find the best way each time. It’s worse than programming.
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And at last comes the post-sculpting part (post-production? how is it even called?), where I added the scene (which was painted in procreate), the lightning, and the rest of the visual effects. I think this is becoming my favorite part of the whole process, all credits go to my 2D background!
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Overall I’m happy with today’s progress. There are certain things that need polishing up of course, but just like everything, it’s a matter of practice.