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I like it.you’ve got the bigger buck in control on top.looks good.
Looking good D. Gene better look out, D. is getting into sculpting. lol. He may want to make a mold before you mount them.
July 22, 2011
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Craig Harper wrote: Looking good D. Gene better look out, D. is getting into sculpting. lol. He may want to make a mold before you mount them.
Craig, alterations are a long way from sculpting. I wouldn’t even know how to get started if the form wasn’t there for me hack up.:)
D, try this 1st instead of repositioning the deer. Set your earliner in place and heat it with a blowdryer or heat gun to soften it. Then install the antlers and form it being pinched against the tine. Spray it with water to set the liner instantly. It would really add to the realism.
PAGE wrote: D, try this 1st instead of repositioning the deer. Set your earliner in place and heat it with a blowdryer or heat gun to soften it. Then install the antlers and form it being pinched against the tine. Spray it with water to set the liner instantly. It would really add to the realism.
great idea , I never did anything like this but if you can soften it , like Page said, that would be a way to use the positions you have and add to the fighting pose.
Also consider is this area going to be that noticeable for the extra detail your going to put into it.
Vincent or Gene could tell you a lot more than I can about deer anatomy, but I think the neck rotation looks fine. There is still something I don’t like though, it almost looks like they are spooning and not fighting. I think I would change the head angle on the top deer so that he was way more “chin up” if that makes sense. I would also pin the bottom deer’s ear a little more. He is going to have it as pinned as he can to avoid getting it pinched. Page’s suggestion is a good one too, because it actually makes it look like these deer are interacting, not just being hung together in a corner. I know being forced to hang these on a wall limits you to what you can do, but a couple tweaks and some serious eye rotation would make it look believable.
Nose to nose they generally have both heads down, but after they have made contact I think rotating one of the heads up would make it look like he’s really pushing. Here are a couple pics of what I mean. I know they are mulies but they get my point across.
D. looks like you are having fun. I don’t think you would have to put that one ear where you have it. That deer would move it if he felt like it was in a bind. Moving it up or forward would be fine. I also think Tax-E-Dermist has a good plan. Page also is on to something.
D you could also alter the angle of the back and make them kinda a extream offset shoulder or alter them both to wall pedestals. That way you could have both the shoulders facing each other more and not have to put as much turn in the necks to get them to meet. I think wall pedestals would be cool. Could be a new series of forms in the future.
July 22, 2011
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Artistic Wildlife wrote: D. looks like you are having fun.
Vince Im enjoying this project. Something a little different and satisfying.
Im putting way to much time in it. I know the client will not realize what goes into doing something like this. But my name will be attached to it so I want to do it as right as I can.
Thanks for all the ideas guys, Ive tweaked them a little more and getting close to having to call it done. I will take some more pics in the next couple of days.
I started this thread in hopes to getting some folks’ wheels to turning. It so easy to take a form out of a box put a cape on it and call it mounted.
But as you can see 2 of my last few project have been a little more than out of the mold mounts.
Between this one and the lifesize Albino it has been a great break from the same ole routine.
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