[DavoX]

Hello Guys! What's up?

LAST POST WITH BOILING SCULPEY FOR THE DIFFERENT PARTS:
http://forums.duke4....post__p__176266

I finished my Octabrain sculpture in 2012 and now I'm about to start the paint work. Here are the finished pictures before painting. What follows is the old post where I showed the process to make it , cheers!



Someone in here told me it could be a good idea to make a Thread showing the making of my Octabrain Sculpture so I'm giving it a try.

The octabrain I'm going to make is based off (and probably almost the same) as the one being seen in recent DNF footage.

I want to point some things up first:

1) This is a fan made Sculpture and it's not related to Gearbox in any other way than it being an Octabrain from DNF.

2) It's not for sale. I'm sure I'll have some kind of contest or something to give away a painted copy for free.

3) If this suceeds I might make other members of the Duke Nukem universe


So let's get to it!

First I'm going to show you the armature I made for it. I Forgot to take pictures when I made the armature but I'll tell you it's made out of Wires of different kind of thickness which I then covered with a Wire sheet and then with Epoxy.

This is the unfinished body with some wire still visible:



And then fully covered with epoxy, ready to add the clay!



This is all to bulk up the body and to use less Clay ( Which is Super Sculpey by the way, kinda expensive).

Basic shape:



Started making the brain:



I'm adding the "things" that hold the head onto the brain, I also made the belly which I'll show later:



Improved a bit the "tentacles" that hold the brain and then added small "balls of steel" to make the eyes:





Worked a bit on the face and added details. Going to make the spine tomorrow:




Added the spiky spine and added more detail to the head as well. Next step: Tentacles!




I'll continue to post more shoots as I make more progress with it. Any other questions I'll be happy to answer

I'm probably going to update the first post every time new stuff comes in so make sure to check it when I bump the thread.


I'm going to make the body and the legs separately, before anyone asks


My youtube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/user/RealDavoX

My facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/DavoXRealms

[Splat]

Cool beans! Hope the Octabrain turns out to be awesome.

[Micky C]

How good are you a sculpture? I mean, is this going to have a close resemblance to the in-game version proportion and colour wise?

[Mr.Deviance]

I always said the Octabrain has a stick up it's ass.

[Sinisterambo]

Yeah it is a big head.

[TerminX]

Pretty cool project, but why even take pictures at such an early state of development? It's like making a thread called "check out my new patio!" and posting some pictures of cement bags.

[MrBlackCat]

TX, on 25 April 2011 - 07:07 AM, said:

Pretty cool project, but why even take pictures at such an early state of development? It's like making a thread called "check out my new patio!" and posting some pictures of cement bags.

This was my reaction as well... but I think as long as DavoX doesn't tell us any features he plans on adding, and then later doesn't include, he should be ok. Oh... and don't give a finish date either cause it can really bite you if you don't meet that date!

MrBlackCat

[DavoX]

Well I know it's still early... Might be because I showed early shots of my maps always

[MrBlackCat]

DavoX, on 25 April 2011 - 10:18 AM, said:

Well I know it's still early... Might be because I showed early shots of my maps always

Not trying to be negative... this way we get a FULL idea of the evolution of your sculpt.

I take reference images of the things I make all along the way. I have many thousands of images of projects from the last 20 years. I mostly do it because of recall issues though. In some circles could be called Mr."Hell! I guess I DID make one of those!" BlackCat

MrBlackCat

[Betelgeuse]

I like this idea, looking forward to seeing the other stages of your sculpture, so, are you going to post pictures of your creation as you go along? or are you going to wait until you completely finish it?

either way, good shit!

[DavoX]

I'm going to post as I go along

Going to post pics tomorrow BTW so stay tuned.

Also, since a lot of people here have access to strange rare material... any of you guys have full frontal, side and back views of the Octabrain model? I only found some top and below pics that are useful and other two pics with inclined views which are only partially useful. I need full frontal pics for better reference.

[MrBlackCat]

DavoX, on 25 April 2011 - 09:20 PM, said:

I'm going to post as I go along

Going to post pics tomorrow BTW so stay tuned.

Also, since a lot of people here have access to strange rare material... any of you guys have full frontal, side and back views of the Octabrain model? I only found some top and below pics that are useful and other two pics with inclined views which are only partially useful. I need full frontal pics for better reference.

I will stay tuned as long as you don't ever say "W.I.D.".

MrBlackCat

[The Commander]

MrBlackCat, on 26 April 2011 - 10:23 AM, said:

I will stay tuned as long as you don't ever say "W.I.D.".

MrBlackCat

DavoX has a few projects that are WIP...

[DavoX]

EDITED: Check first post for pictures.

[MrBlackCat]

DavoX, on 27 April 2011 - 01:39 PM, said:

I'm making DNF version of the octabrain. In my opinion it kicks ass.

Started making the brain:

Hell yeah... looking good! If I was a zombie, I would be like ALL over that!

MrBlackCat

[TerminX]

The brain bit looks very nice.

[DavoX]

Thanks!

I didn't even add the bumps and polish on it at that particular time

Now I'm working on the head. Making it a separate part which I'll add to the main body after baking it.

[DavoX]

Little Update, I'm adding the "things" that hold the head onto the brain, I also made the belly which I'll show later:

[GothicBunny]

Its coming along really nicely

[MrBlackCat]

That looks great DavoX.

MrBlackCat

[Tea Monster]

Wow, that looks great.

Whoever told you to make this thread, bump their rep up by 5 points at least!

[Sebastian]

Nice scrotom.

[kaisersoze]

Looking ace Davox! Can't wait to see more!

[DavoX]

Improved a bit the "tentacles" that hold the brain and then added small "balls of steel" to make the eyes:

[Frost Nukem]

Youhouuuuu !! More photos please, you have good skills in sculpture !!

[DavoX]

Worked a bit on the face and added details. Going to make the spine tomorrow:

[DavoX]

Just in case anyone wants to see the pics in one post, I updated the first one with all the pictures so far. Going to do the same when more pictures pop up.

[TerminX]

I have to say, I'm pretty impressed.

[crunchysuperman]

That looks great! Nice work.

[Mike Norvak]

As we say in my country: Esta bien chingón!!! LOL