Benier Daily Sculpt Thread

• Benier wrote on 2012-05-07 09:00
  So I finally started sculpting again, and for the next little while I'm doing daily 5 hour sculpts of random animals for practice sake. Critiques are very much welcomed.
  
  Here's the first 5 hour sculpt, May 06, 2012
  
  

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  Thanks, more to come!
• tacundavid wrote on 2012-05-07 12:27
  Just curious, what is your reference?
• Tropacat wrote on 2012-05-07 17:06
  That is so elegantly done, very fine work!
• Benier wrote on 2012-05-07 17:22

  Quote from tacundavid;857875:

  Just curious, what is your reference?

  
  Hey David, because I couldn't find references of various views of the same bear I took bits from these ones:
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  [Image: http://www.bearsoftheworld.net/images/bears/ours_noir_2a.jpg]

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  For the fur pattern I tried to follow the last one for the body and the first one for the face.
  
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• Kingofrunes wrote on 2012-05-07 22:24
  Wow this is very well done. You should sell these things. Could probably make a lot of money for sure.
  
  Heck if it doesn't take too much space I'd buy one xD
  
  Would be even better if it was painted.
• Osayidan wrote on 2012-05-07 22:51
  Is it Tarlach?
• Benier wrote on 2012-05-08 04:20
  Thanks, unfortunately with 5 hours a day to burn I only have time to sculpt not enough to texture it. As for selling it I don't have a 3D printer so the recipient will have to have a program that allows viewing of OBJ files, and decent enough hardware to view it haha. The bear sculpt above is 10.7mil polygons as it sits right now.
  
  I didn't sculpt bear genitalia but who knows, maybe Tarlach had an accident. It would explain why he wouldn't take Kristell.
• Benier wrote on 2012-05-08 07:22
  Here's the sculpt I did tonight, May 07 2012. Today's animal is a Townsend's Big Eared Bat:
  

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  Reference:
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  [Image: http://dwrcdc.nr.utah.gov/rsgis2/images/Photos/corytown.jpg]

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  [Image: http://www.werc.usgs.gov/oldsitedata/bats/images/c-townsends-big-eared-bat.jpg]

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  [Image: http://whitenosebats.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/dsc0145.jpg]

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  Had a lot of technical difficulties with this one, I wasted an hour sculpting the face before I realized the model was too small and it was making me sculpt all the way through the body as I sculpt the face. Also could not decide what to do for the wing membrane and I still think it doesn't look quite right.
  
  Thanks!
• Tropacat wrote on 2012-05-08 10:16
  Do a fruit bat/flying fox! :o
• Kingofrunes wrote on 2012-05-08 17:10
  When you said sculpting I thought you meant like actual real life sculpture and not just a computer generated sculpture.
  
  That changes things a bit then *chuckles*
  
  Either way, these look great.
• Benier wrote on 2012-05-09 08:42

  Quote from Tropacat;858527:

  Do a fruit bat/flying fox! :o

  
  
  I'll put that on the list after this week's topics!
  
  

  Quote from Kingofrunes;858665:

  When you said sculpting I thought you meant like actual real life sculpture and not just a computer generated sculpture.
  
  That changes things a bit then *chuckles*
  
  Either way, these look great.

  
  
  Thanks! Unfortunately no time to sculpt tonight, but I'll sculpt a deer tomorrow!
• Kueh wrote on 2012-05-09 16:25
  Wow, these are so fantastic.
  
  Honestly, the only critique I could possibly give is that the heads are really symmetrical.
  
  Seriously, you must be so proud of your work.
• Drizzit wrote on 2012-05-09 20:41
  Neat
• Benier wrote on 2012-05-10 02:18

  Quote from Drizzit;859461:

  Neat

  
  
  Thanks!
  
  

  Quote from Kueh;859272:

  Wow, these are so fantastic.
  
  Honestly, the only critique I could possibly give is that the heads are really symmetrical.
  
  Seriously, you must be so proud of your work.

  
  Thank you! Yeah due to time restrictions and my current working speed I don't usually have time to sculpt each side individually in 5 hours. However as I do more of these I'm sure my speed will increase and I'll eventually start being able to squeeze that into 5 hour sessions :oops:
• Benier wrote on 2012-05-10 11:42
  Deer from this past night:
  

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  Not really happy with how the ears turned out but it was what time allowed because I blew an hour trying a short cut and failed.
  
  References:
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  [Image: http://www.ianmears.com/places/srilanka/photos_medium/Sri_Lanka_Yala_National_Park_15.jpg]

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  [Image: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/Chital_(Spotted_Deer).jpg]

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  Up for tonight:
  Panther