So I am finally making some progress with this thing. It might not look like much but it took a shed load of effort to get here. I still need to finish off the feet and I left the legs gluing over night but I can start getting the clay on tomorrow…yay! Finally feeling good about this project.
I altered the design a little in the process, mainly just by slimming it down in profile, partly due to laying the guide image on the foam at an odd angle and partly just cos it needed to be slimmer. Luckily it is easy enough to adjust the drawing to fit and I’m gonna wait till the big one is finished till I make the little ones so they match all the better.
Here is the process so far…
1. mahoosive block of foam gets delivered. 2. print off full scale drawing. 3. Chop foam down and hash together in to roughly correct sized block.
1. + 2. Stick drawings to block. 3. Proceed to hack away at it with a saw until shape emerges.
Continue hacking, sand a bit with a surform, same process for legs though I cut out feet on the band saw. Dig out spaces for armature and glue together with ‘no more nails’.
The clay sculpting part is daunting but I am looking forward to it now.
I also took up a whole sofa in Starbucks for half an hour this evening, felt good until a random girl came and sat down on one of the comfy seats opposite, this is the second time this has happened to me, what is it about comfy seats in coffee shop that makes people abandon privacy and etiquette as priorities over slightly less squishy seating?
I finally came up with a name for this toy line, I’m still hoping I can think of something better but for now it’s ‘Zillabots’ in relation to my illustration site, plus they have horns which could be a trait of something godzilla-ish/reptillian? Any better ideas would be much appreciated. 