Making a Female Game Character from Wax

Step 2 Refining the Super Sculpy Rough

You may notice that I introduced some resin parts (the head is from my BloodRayne 2 figure!) I had lying around, in the same scale, which helped speed up the process. During the wax phase they were changed to resemble the character and provided a good starting point. Wax is a great material because it is cast-able which allows you to use tricks like this to speed up your work flow. Some artists keep a library of their molds from previous projects for this very reason!

Here are images of the sculpture with the clay rough completed and ready to be baked prior to molding. You may notice that the sculpture is almost complete but kept a little loose in the details to allow for slight changes after she is cast in wax. This is largely due to the fact that wax will shrink so inevitable you will need to make some adjustments later on as we will see in the next step.

Note that the hands were left as simple geometric shapes of approximate size as it will be much easier to make them in wax. The shape simply allows the wax to have a shape as a base from which to start from.

The guns serve as a place holder and will simply be cut during the wax stage. I made other guns, cast them in resin, to then incorporate them into the sculpture during the next phase. Its nice to have the props during the wax stage (or something that can mimic the prop) because it will give you and idea of how the final will look making sure all the angles work and fall into place.

The chain will not be cast into wax and removed before mold making.

Comments

[Riann13]

you are awesome, btw