Censored as to not offend Patreon's delicate puritanical sensibilities.
The full release of Ash on November 3rd will include:
• 1:10 and 1:14 scale diorama model of Ash, Wasteland Ronin with:
• 4 head options - Bald with no horns, bald with horns, with hair and no horns,
and with hair and horns
• 2 weapon options - Double barrel shotgun or sword<...
This has been a tough project, but she's done. Currently cutting and keying and working on the NSFW version. There will be a lot of options with this one: 4 head options, no tail option, shotgun in place of sword, holster and sheathe versions to reflect the weapon in hand choice, 3 seat versions (SFW and NSFW keys and no keys), 2 skid versions (keys and no keys), and the left control lever with and without hand attached so you can have just the bike as a model without the base and rider...
2021-10-20 09:48:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Doing WIPs for this one is hard - having to use the low polygon version of the hoverbike in the correct position while sculpting Ash separately as the polycounts and individual pieces are getting numerous so I'm just doing quick zbrush renders. I've added some nice keyshot renders of the sword and shotgun. I'm probably going to make an alternate version of the hand holding the shotgun so it can be switched out with the sword.
Still got a fair amount to get through, more WIPs will follow...
2021-10-11 09:15:44 +0000 UTC View Post
So, the hoverbike is happening. How am I going to make this printable? That's a problem for later but I've built it in such a way that it shouldn't be too difficult (fingers crossed).
2021-10-06 08:33:59 +0000 UTC View Post
The links for September's content have now expired. Itea will be available on my website today for anyone who missed her. My Mini Factory emails will be sent out over the next couple of days (depends how long it takes them to publish the upload).
LINKS TO SEPTEMBER CONTENT ARE NOW INVALID - NEW ONES FOR OCTOBER WILL BE POSTED ON THE 3RD OCTOBER.
2021-10-01 07:30:01 +0000 UTC
View Post
Censored as to not offend Patreon's delicate puritan sensibilities.
The full release of Senua on October 3rd will include:
• 1:10 and 1:14 scale diorama model of Senua, The Hunted with:
• 2 head options - Bald and with hair
• Multi-Part Base - The base is much larger than usual, it has been cut into 6 parts for the smaller form factor printers (5.5 or 6" screens), and a 3 piece version is incl...
The SFW preview for Senua. I meant to do another WIP but got ahead of myself and ended up finishing it instead. The NSFW version will be a separate model. I'll be showing the preview of that along with the full release preview soon.
2021-09-19 22:50:22 +0000 UTC View Post
I needed to get the wall built in order to properly pose the hunter but also needed to block in Senua to be able to get the base sized up properly - it's going to be a big one again. Got most of Senua's clothing blocked in too. The scene is getting a bit too big to properly render in keyshot now. It got bogged down quite a bit so the render materials and lighting aren't great unfortunately.
2021-09-12 21:40:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Nearly done with the base work for The Hunter - planning on adding an exposed metal spine and some other plugs here and there but it'll be easier to do after posing. Next step is to rig him and pose him.
2021-09-07 09:35:56 +0000 UTC View Post
The links for August's content have now expired. Cassidy will be available on my website today for anyone who missed her. My Mini Factory emails will be sent out over the next couple of days (depends how long it takes them to publish the upload).
LINKS TO AUGUST CONTENT ARE NOW INVALID - NEW ONES FOR SEPTEMBER WILL BE POSTED ON THE 3RD SEPTEMBER.
2021-09-01 07:06:00 +0000 UTC
View Post
Itea will be available for all Hero tier patrons and above September 3rd
• 1:10 and 1:14 scale model of Itea, the hi-tech huntress on the trail of her prey with:
• 2 head options - bald or with hair
• SFW and NSFW option
• Combined, Multi-part and Pre-supported STLs
• 1:10 and 1:14 scale b...
2021-08-27 17:23:58 +0000 UTC View Post
All finished and test printing in progress, full release preview coming soon.
2021-08-23 19:08:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Pretty much done with Itea herself, just got to get the base done and she should be ready to get her chopped up for printing.
2021-08-17 08:59:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Little bit late posting a WIP for Itea due to getting back from my holiday and taking a weekend off to go to a music festival (a surreal experience after the lockdowns). Despite all of Zbrush's fancy new micropoly tools the best method of doing things like the fishnet sections is still tiling an alpha over a UV map and extracting the mesh the old fashioned way. Took a bit of time to figure out which way would work best but overall this was the best effect, giving stretching and compression wh...
2021-08-09 09:28:23 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm actually still on holiday until August 2nd, this post has was automatically scheduled for today.
This month makes two years on Patreon! I can't believe how time has flown by. I will be looking into organising another paint competition or some other sort of event this month with a potential sponsorship from Creality. I'll keep you posted on this.
To celebrate I will also be having a sale. There will be a 40% sale all across my website for e...
2021-08-01 08:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Censored as to not offend Patreon's delicate puritan sensibilities.
The full release of Cassidy on August 3rd will include:
• 1:10 and 1:14 scale dynamic model of Gunnery Sergeant Cassidy "Roaring Thunder" West in her Manned Assault Rig with:
• 4 head options - no helmet bald, no helmet with hair, with helmet and visor, with helmet and separate visor
• Bladed left mech arm option
&nb...
Been playing around with some materials in Keyshot to get the damaged paint look. Normally I wouldn't have done this as I find sometimes people use textures on their renders that makes it look like there is more detail than is what is actually there. However, this material is using the actual contours of the geometry to calculate the concavity and convexity to drive whether the surface is paint or metal. In other words, every single detail, scratch, dent, mark or flake is part of the mesh, no...
2021-07-12 15:03:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Probably the hardest part of working at a larger scale is just how much visible things are and the detail that needs to go into them. In this case the hardest thing has been making the exo-suit and armour convincing in how it operates, given that I am not a mechanical engineer. There is considerable use of scifi bullshit being used here, such as intelligent micro-servos being used in armour joints and hinges that move the armour plating out of the way of moving body parts should they get in t...
2021-07-11 15:24:36 +0000 UTC View Post
So WIPs are probably going to come out pretty quickly this month as I made a start on Cassidy as soon as I finished Khara to make sure I got her done before my holiday. Since I've been super focused on getting her finished as soon as possible it slipped my mind to do WIP renders - instead I've had to rely on screenshots I took along the way (hence the crops and weird sizing).
2021-07-08 19:28:32 +0000 UTC View Post
We're already in the last half of 2021. What even is time anymore?
The links for June's content have now expired. Lady Xiu will be available on my website today for anyone who missed her. My Mini Factory emails will be sent out over the next couple of days (depends how long it takes them to publish the upload).
LINKS TO JUNE CONTENT ARE NOW INVALID - NEW ONES FOR JULY WILL BE POSTED ON THE 3RD JULY.
2021-07-01 08:00:04 +0000 UTC
View Post
The full release of Khara Eldris on July 3rd will include:
• 1:10 and 1:14 scale model of Khara Eldris, Thorne the Butcher and a rising zombie (affectionately known as Ed):
• 2 head options - bald and with hair.
• NSFW option for both Khara and Thorne
• Combined, Multi-part and Pre-supported STLs
• Single Piece and Multi-Part Base - The base is larger than usual, ...
Khara Eldris, Baroness of the Boneyard, accompanied by her guardian, Thorne The Butcher, is now complete! I can finally sleep. This was a lot of work but I enjoyed having a bit of variety in being able to work on a male character for a change (muscles are fun).
For those who wanted it, Thorne also has a NSFW option.
I have also tried a different approach for the NSFW version of Khara as well. Instead of two full torsos (SFW and NSFW), there is just the NSFW torso but t...
2021-06-16 13:36:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Getting there now. Khara is pretty much done. Paid a little visit back to Thorne to add some extra little ragged detail to the clothing and also make sure he has a NSFW option too (yes, I did it). Ed the zombie is also underway, added him as a separate image as I'm working on him in a separate file due to the file size encroaching on "very easy to corrupt" territory.
2021-06-11 14:45:19 +0000 UTC View Post
So the polygon count for Thorne the Butcher got pretty high pretty quickly, so I've had to render out from Zbrush instead of Keyshot - Not quite as sexy but far more practical as otherwise I'd have to spend several hours decimating 130 something individual parts just for Thorne alone. I'm going to have to do it anyway later on but I've got 3 figures to sculpt so I'd rather get them finished first. I've had a blast sculpting Thorne. Being able to sculpt something a bit more brutal and mu...
2021-06-07 21:50:00 +0000 UTC View Post
First time doing this, definitely made a few mistakes, but it was interesting at least. Full list of features are in this post
2021-05-25 09:37:23 +0000 UTC View Post
The full release of Lady Xiu on June 3rd will include:
• 1:10 and 1:14 scale model of Lady Xiu and the water dragon Yangtze with:
• 2 head options - bald and with hair.
• 2 feet options - Shoes and barefoot.
• 2 weapon options - Ringed Broadsword and Chinese Longsword.
• NSFW option
• Combined, Multi-part and Pre-supported STLs
2021-05-25 09:31:24 +0000 UTC
View Post
Well this one was fun, it seems doing a dragon in 10th scale is about as clever an idea as it sounds. Either way I'm quite happy with how it turned out.
Full release preview will be posted soon. I'm also trying something a bit different for this release, doing a video to accompany it with music written and composed by my talented younger brother, Tim. I have no idea if it will work out but hey it's worth a shot!
2021-05-20 20:05:28 +0000 UTC View Post
So the polycount got a bit nuts with the dragon to the point I couldn't really sling it over to keyshot to render a wip when I was about half way through, so I ended up finishing him and the base so I could decimate it down to something sensible so it wouldn't take 10 minutes to queue and load a render angle.
I need to decimate Lady Xiu down some and I can get everything all in one place. Should time allow I may add a straight sword option for her too.
2021-05-14 20:48:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Pretty much done with Lady Xiu herself. Probably going add some jewellery stuff to the hair and a bit more of a skin detail pass, but she's more or less there.
Pretty sure I'll be able to offer sleeveless and barefoot options in addition to the nsfw option too.
Next up: Dragony McDragonface
2021-05-09 18:42:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Spent the last couple of days blocking out Lady Xiu. The clothes came together rather quickly in Marvelous Designer with very little fighting with physics simulations for a change. Continuing to block out for now, next up is her shoes and hair, then I can start detailing before moving on to the thing everyone is interested in - the dragon.
2021-05-04 21:50:17 +0000 UTC View Post