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Skyrim - Headless Horseman With Horse and Axe

Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 3:04 am
by sfxbecks
This is one of the hardest things Ive had to do! It was an assignment for university!

If anyone is interested I have step by step photos of this!! >.< (Is that showing off??)

Re: Skyrim - Headless Horseman With Horse and Axe

Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 3:31 am
by Ally
That. Is. EPIC!!!!! So freakin' awesome! And yes, it is showing off, but you've earned the bragging rights!

Re: Skyrim - Headless Horseman With Horse and Axe

Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 6:31 am
by blackmageheart
Funny, I just saw this guy again last night! He always pops up when I'm minding my own business :D

I love this, it's great - and I would be VERY interested to see the step by step photos! ^^

Re: Skyrim - Headless Horseman With Horse and Axe

Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 7:19 am
by sfxbecks
Aww Thanks guys! ^_^ Still got some photoshopping to do yet before I hand the final piece in!

Here are the WIP photos...Sorry for 1) The poor quality photo 2) The mess in the backgrounds 3) My poor attempt at sticking them together!! :blush: But I hope you enjoy them either way! :grin:

Re: Skyrim - Headless Horseman With Horse and Axe

Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 7:24 am
by sfxbecks
I should tell you a bit about it...I had to draw out orthographics (which you can see in the first stages of sculpting in the background - yeah, I cant draw! ) I used steel rods to make the armature, I then padded it out with foil (this was to save clay and to make it slightly lighter) I sculpted my horse and horseman, then made moulds of both sculpts with plaster and then used a vac form machine (which heats up sheets of plastic and uses a vacuum to force the plastic tight onto the plaster moulds) to make plastic moulds of both plaster moulds. I then cut them out and with a lot of gluing later he was done!! :) It was so much harder then it sounds! The legs didnt want to vac form (but I will blur them in photoshop...in a ghostly way) And I had to make the horses ears out of spare plastic and stick them on!! >.<

Re: Skyrim - Headless Horseman With Horse and Axe

Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 11:41 am
by rosey175
That is so, so awesome! I hope your professor liked (and recignized?) it, and that you got an equally awesome grade! :D

Re: Skyrim - Headless Horseman With Horse and Axe

Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 12:01 pm
by sfxbecks
rosey175 wrote:That is so, so awesome! I hope your professor liked (and recignized?) it, and that you got an equally awesome grade! :D
Thanks!! :D And the hand in is on Monday! But while I was gluing it all together he said it was impressive!! Lets hope my photoshop skills dont let me down so I can hide the horrible seams, and hopefully get a better grade!! ;)

Re: Skyrim - Headless Horseman With Horse and Axe

Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2012 12:59 pm
by PixelPockets
that's really awesome! I like all the extra details +)

Re: Skyrim - Headless Horseman With Horse and Axe

Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 6:30 am
by sfxbecks
Oh guys! I never told you...I got an 93/100 for this... and here is the final pic I submitted!

Re: Skyrim - Headless Horseman With Horse and Axe

Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 6:31 am
by blackmageheart
AWESOME :D