It's been a busy month between school and working on the comic, but I wanted to make a post on here about something I've done recently. I thought it might be fun to talk about these things.
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| It's kinda like that. |
Never really did anything like it before so it was fun to try and fun to bring these two into 3 dimensions. I was working with wire in my 3D class in school, creating two abstract forms representing closure using positive and negative space. and I had an urge to try my hand and see if I could pull off doing something with Infinite Wonders in an okay way.
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The one on the left I called "Getting Smashed"
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Got some armature wire and some fast setting clay and worked on making an Infinite statuette that could just stand there. I call it a statuette since it's the full figure, but not really like a big statue. He's just the size of a Mego figure. Anyway, I got so into the process that I forgot to take any pictures of Infinite when he was all wiry underneath. You'll have to settle for just the unpainted sculpt, that's when I finally got to take a breather and step back!
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| Clay man |
Gave him a fun glossy black paint job, painted the white and yellow parts and gave them a neat varnish coating to finish it off all over the rest of the costume to give it a gloss. Fun stuff, was pretty happy about him! I was standing him up next to other superhero toys I have around that size and just getting a big kick outta that. He's got a pretty firm booty, that's one thing I must point out.
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| Happy lil' dude! |
Therein, I was compelled to attempt to make a Mr. Wonder in the same scale to accompany our Infinite figure. It is called Infinite Wonders, so then there would be the two guys that have their names in the title. I did snap a picture of Mr. Wonder in his wireframe form to give you an idea of how their skeletons appear underneath. Mr. Wonder required more padding out of the wire to give him a sturdier skeleton since he's so hefty.
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| Wiry guy |
Then he got pretty heavier with layering on all that clay. He needed a lot of it! I think I ran out of my supply and went to go get some more to finish the rest of him up. One interesting thing for the both guys was doing the faces, it's fun to translate the way I draw those faces onto a 3 dimensional surface and see how it works as a tangible thing in reality. That's where doing some turnaround models of the two of them came in pretty handy because you are able to visualize how that jump will work with a pretty nice guideline to go by.
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| Hey, that other wire thing's behind you on the left |
Painting Mr. Wonder was fun, too. The painting part's a little denouement for the whole thing as you're just giving it that little extra bit of life. His cape is connected on both shoulder pieces and also on his spine, creating a little 'W' shaped cape. Lots of W's sprinkled all over!
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| Big and jolly |
So there he is. And there the both of them are standing next to each other. Mr. Wonder's a big piece of bulk and Infinite's a skinny lightweight.
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| Super colleagues |
Hope you dug that. Just something new to put on this blog. You should check out the
Infinite Wonders blog! Lots of goodies on there that might eventually be talked about in more detail on here. Also, 1st issue's on there to read, 2nd one's more than halfway done now. Really fun, offbeat happenings in it!
