For this project the brief was anything you wanted aslong as you could put it in a foot by foot perspex box for exhibition purposes, sadly this meant it needed to be physical so for digital people we were to sculpt the model and then print it out and work on the 3d print to make it look right.

As i was being told this I came up with what I wanted to do having just finished Iain M. Banks book “Look to Windward” there was a character in it that came from a hyper advanced civilization of humanoids and decided to live amongst and study massive airborn sentient plants called “dirigible behemothaurs”

For ease of movement in this environment Uagen Zlepe altered his geneology to make himself more simian.

I wanted to tackle this character for two main reasons making a person that was more or less like a human but with different physiology would be interesting and the four hand arrangement would allow for a dynamic pose in the box allotted.

this was some of my initial designs and photoshop work.

heres a photoshop render i made to settle on colouring and clothing.

This is the 3d print right out of the printer. due to resolution limitations i felt it was best to chop it up and orientate it so that the most important parts wouldnt become harshly topographical.

this is the print stuck together filled and sanded, with some extra details added with heat dry modelling material.

finished model with plastecine/foam floating vegitation and laser cut tablet.

I was going a bit hell for leather for this project. The nature of the beast being what it was (Initial sketches=> concept sculpt=> creating mesh => 3d sculpt=> 3d print=> fixing 3d print(fixingfixingfixing, it was a really old 3d printer so the print was made of 1mm ribs of plastic)=> creating foliage=> Painting) was a daunting enough pipeline to figure out in 3 weeks but getting my bag stolen with all the fruits of my labour one week before the deadline made it just a touch more stressful. Happy with the result all the same though.