Sugar Skull

[Chris Botha]

Sculpting is SO not my thing.. but i did find after a half hour, engraving and driving a tablet pen are actually distant cousins, I "could" develop the skill i suppose, but I don't have clients for this outlandish type of stuff..

anyways..

90% of the base is all tslines models from the Matrix library, slapped together with SPLOP over a drape.

projected a curve, some gems and beads then off to 3dcoat..

no special settings, just import, pick up pen and GO..

all up i estimate 40 to 45 minutes work.. but dont quote me, I was trying to record and kept crashing rhino so would need to restart recording.. eventually gave up.. If i do another i will setup as tripod.. 3dcoat EATS ram..

The BIGGEST advantage to doing this in 3dCoat imo so far has been that you dont constantly need to remesh the damn thing.. voxels truly are a completely different beast, chalk and cheese to emulated voxels that other sculpting apps I have tried offer.. but you pay for it in CPU cycles..

I was going for "Crown and Brains" but my brains look a tad very Acanthus scroll.. wonder which recent skill I learned that I stole that from..


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[Chris Botha]

a clip on the process

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[Chris Botha]

few updates on this..

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and a turntable and usage

Usage:
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and Turntable

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[Chris Botha]

my LAST post on this project ;).. decide to turn the learning into something.. a ring for myself for when i take delivery of the Ducatti Diavel !!

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[hoboMike]

Wow, pretty awesome, man!:thumb[1]:

[Chris Botha]

Thanks man. Didnt want to create more thread on my new cad toy, si I wil throw this in here. I figure if i used this cad to get me 90% of the way with this kind of ring, then chase in after to bright cut im still ahead and less time chunking out the base of it.. :willy_nilly[1]:

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