The Gardner

[johncox85]

After the polystyrene was cut we put a layer of epoxy resin over it to seal it up then covered the pieces in polyester fibreglass. The pieces were then all split and the EPS cleaned out then they were faired, sanded and the mechanical components placed inside.This saved us the moulding process time.

[Moni-Poroni]

What a great thread! FANTASTIC work!

[johncox85]

The only component that was made using a mould was the head as we needed to keep all of the detail perfect. The face is more complicated than an arm or leg piece.

[daddymack]

This is easily the coolest work I've seen Zbrush used to produce

Congrats LLLGuapo and Johncox85, if you guys ever need an offsider the Mack would be there in a heartbeat

[johncox85]

The mechanical pivot points were the most difficult to get right and required a lot of time. The components were drawn up in a CAD program which made the steel fabrication fairly straight forward.

[mudpusher]

reminds me a bit of the work of that street performance company Royal de luxe but with a High teck take on the process.
thanks for sharing this John, would love to see the finished thing.

[johncox85]

Here's the finished puppet on the streets of Brisbane.

Oh, we started off scanning a real doll then manipulated the image in zbrush as I am a real novice with zbrush. The hair was done using zbrush and really helped smooth and style the pigtails.

Any questions just ask.

[mudpusher]

Wicked!!

[Moni-Poroni]

Awesome!

[tokio]

inspiration for me !!!
I never seen work flow before with giant scale and making behind it
i very impressive
thankyou verymuch
i love it
i like it!!! .glgfl;kl;zf YES! top star for me

[shin4]

wow!!! really really wow~~~~

[Sigmund Hentze]

Why do some guys have all the fun...?

Hi John, great work, projects like these are things most of us can only dream of... show us the final product once completed....

Enjoy...

Ziggy

[ChillWill Graphix]

Everything that I have seen in this thread (or, hell, in the to row this morning for that matter!!!) has been simply amazing to see and very inspirational. Keep up the amazing work!!!


Later - Mike

[Maxim_fleury]

Wow that is so cool!!! Amazing work, wish I could have seen it in real life.

Cheers, M

[Dman3d]

I have a question. Do you have any video shot of that event? Creeepy cool!