Deckard, Blade Runner (1982)

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This is a sculpt that I have been wanting to make for a very long time, but never had the confidence to tackle because of a fear of not doing the subject matter justice. It almost didn't happen this time either. I have given up on this project a dozen times because I couldn't get the likeness good enough, until in an act of desperation I grabbed the smooth brush and erased the entire face and started over. What I ended up with still isn't where I wish I could have gotten it, but I think it's Good Enough™ (or maybe As Good As It Gets™).

Printing

This one shouldn't require any external supports on FDM, and should be a very easy print. Check out the GIF below for assembly instructions. If you don't want to print the Ennis background pattern you can choose to only print the small base the bust rests on, and it will be just like any other bust :)

The actual Ennis background pattern is not mirrored in the final version. I didn't realise until I was writing this post they were, so I fixed it, and it's only in my pictures they are mirrored.

Thank you all for your continued support! I will be out of town for most of next week since my partner is having surgery, so I will be staying a few nights at an Airbnb a few minutes from the hospital. I'll be bringing my workstation with me to continue working, though, so you'll hear from me again soon!

Rant about likenesses

Doing likenesses can be frustrating. Those of you who have ever attempted it know how it goes. You watch the movie, going through it frame by frame during lots of scenes, grab 200 screenshots of the character in the movie, put them all together in PureRef, and as you go through them you start to realise perfect camera focus isn't really a given. "This would be a great reference shot of the curvature of his upper lip, but Ford's face isn't in focus at all, but his ear is." Okay, fine, I can still work with that. Then you get confused, because in this other shot he looks like he has aged 10 years. His face is all bloated and puffed up. Okay... Maybe allergies? What about his hair in this one? Did his hair just grow 5cm between these two scenes that are supposed to be maybe 10 minutes in between? Yes, it did. And so it goes on. Fuck likenesses :P

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