WIP Neon Genisis Evangelion sculpt

[Ghostbrush]

hey this is my first post and indeed my first Super Sculpey sculpture, its part of my uni project. hope you all like and any comments or questions would be welcome, cheers.

ghost

EDIT: lol forgot to say that this is the size of ur average male human torso so its pretty big.
its my interpretation of EVA00 from the popular anime TV series, i will post some of the concept art i have done for this sculpt which i am working from to produce this.

laters

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[Blaz]

Heh what a coincidence, I just started watching Evangelion series week ago. :D
Eva00 is the blue one Rei has, am I right?

Anyways ,looks good so far. Im excited about the outcome! :)

[Ghostbrush]

yeh its le blue one.
The series is great, Weta Workshop have some cool concept art for the film which i think is on hold atm.
i will post mine asap!

[Robert.B]

what school our you attending that room looks like inside of the design from my old school?

[quasimodox]

It would be awesome if you can wear it~

[Ghostbrush]

that room is in Sheffield Hallam uni in England.

[B-zilla]

Hey man! Belinda here. Awesome looking torso right there! great job! How are you gonna finish it? Will it be sprayed, etc?

[Ghostbrush]

oi oi belinda!

yeh wen its done its getting sprayed and airbrushed! its gonna look sweet, i have also made a stop motion video of me making it which i will upload wen its done.

hows tings?

[B-zilla]

Awesome! I look forward to seeing the final thing. I love the patterning and the spiracles running down the lower half.

Things are good over here. not been working quite as hard, since i've been taking time off to see my cousin. Otherwise, the games coming along well! Putting the design sheets together now, so not long before we start commissions.

Good luck! what is it, like 3-4 weeks left til your deadline now?

[the_mick]

..hope you have a big oven there for this ;)
...and I hope you got the sculpey for free from your school :)
Did you bake some insides already? or is the whole surface soft? if it is, it must be very hard to do some changes to a small area, without effecting the rest?!
do you know chavant clay? think for things like that it it is perfect?
really looking forwar to see more wip
cheers
mick

[Ghostbrush]

yeah the ovens big enough! just! 5cm in it lol
as for free, nope! i had to pay for it myself!
the underneath is a wire frame and armature,.
I used chavant but the stuff at uni i think was very old as it crumbled wen drying, which is a shame, sculpey is a very nice medium to work in, i have enjoyed it very much, will make smaller models from now on tho cos this stuff is expensive

[Ghostbrush]

o and keep me posted b.
yeh i have just less than 4 weeks to go till uni is over!

[Thanasimos]

It's looking very good so far.

Just don't get me started on how terrible the show was!

[Ghostbrush]

Ok sportsfans, some more WIP pics for ya all, and the piece of concept art i have done for my project, this is one of many pieces of my own work i am using as a reference for the sculpt.\\
any feedback would be great, the more critical the better really as i am still learning. cheers.

//Ghost

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[Ghostbrush]

more WIP shots, this time with both shoulders done and the back view! please tell me what u think

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[MidZ]

WOW!
A more organic interpretation of EVA 00, that's something new. I love the concept sketch. Great stuff.

I was wondering how many SS have you used this far. This is going to be one massive and heavy sculpture :D

[madm4tt]

I'm curious to see how this will came out!
Keep to post...

Bye

[Dee Bingo]

Holy crap I didn't realize the scale of this thing!! So when you said the last lb of sculpey I was thinking "that's more than enough to make a head" until I saw this! Looks really cool! How many sculpts have you done?

I know at this stage you are finishing up so you can't do too much more but for your next one I would recommend drawing a line down the center of your torso and measuring the width from that line to each edge with some calipers before putting in detail. Then sculpt religiously off of that meridian to ensure proper symmetry. With a sculpt this big symmetry issues stand out a lot more and are harder to fix later in the game than a small maquette.

That being said great work so far on a very ambitious project! Can't wait to see it airbrushed!

[Ghostbrush]

This is my first sculpture Dee Bingo, its something i have wanted to try for a while now and this project at uni seemed like a good time to try something ambitious.

Yeah my symmetry is off which is a shame but i kinda went into this with no prior experience and having read only a few threads on this forum, itsa been very fun and i have learnt such alot!

more wip photos later today, then i will post the finished sculpt this weekend.

bye bye

[Ghostbrush]

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base coat of black will paint the rest tomorrow!

[Ghostbrush]

here are some photos of the sculpt, almost finished the paint job, gonna spend a few hours on it tomo but then its done! hope u all like, any comments would be very much appreciated! cheers all

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[maddmaestro]

that my friend is truly sick!! you have done an insane amount of detail, beautiful work!!!!!!

maddmaestro

[madm4tt]

Very Cool maquette...!!!

How did you realized the shining octagons, very good effect!!

Bye

[madm4tt]

Ooops double post...Sorry

[curry23]

I'd love to see some better pictures of it! (straight on, side view)
I'm a huge eva fan, and this is just made of pure awesome!
The details are great and I love your glowy paint. C:

[Ghostbrush]

hey sorry yeah i will post some decent photos of it, just gotta finish the last few little touches then i will get my friend to use his nice camera on it!

As for the glow effect madm4tt, it is a pearlescent pigment, sort of like the type of paint you see on cars sometimes where it appears that the car has two different colours and almost shimmers, its the powder thats in that, mixed with a blue paint and thinned a bit, was something i did not think would work but actually turned out to be a happy accident

[madm4tt]

Thanx for the tips man :-)

Keep to post!

Bye

[Ghostbrush]

I have just had some professional shots done of the sculpture for a magazine that goes out with our degreee show, i will post em as soon as i get the copies!
I f i may say so myself the photos look great and i am very excited to share them with you!

post soon

[madm4tt]

I can't wait :-) I'm so curious... :-)

Bye

[teh roxxors]

Just how much Super Sculpey did it take to do this?

Would you use SS for a piece this scale again, or switch to something else, perhaps some sort of epoxy clay?

Anxiously awaiting photos of the entire finished piece.

Oh, what in the heck did you bake it in?

[Ghostbrush]

I would not use super sculpey again for something of this scale. but this was my first go at sculpture and it seemed like a good choice at the start hahahaha, i baked it in a huge oven we have at uni, usually used for heating up plastic for drape moulding and such, took all the shelves out and just managed to get this bad boy in lol.
What kind of clay would i use for this kind of scale in the future? i do not know much about it to be honest

[Ghostbrush]

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some of the shots i was sent from the photographer

[jrr]

if i were to do something this big i might use celluclay. the problem with that stuff is that you can't get super detailed, BUT on the plus side, you can put paper clay on top of that for the details. and you don't need to bake it. both are much cheaper than sculpy.

[madm4tt]

Huge & Cool Man!!!

I like the "face off" photo!!!

P.S.: the blue reflection on your face is great touch!!

Bye