Welp, that’s a wrap. Peter extended one week. New model next week is even more of a weight lifter guy.

I had so much trouble with the right hip where it meets the leg. The pose changed a little on me; so today I recovered - it was brutal, when I unmoved the leg I had to hop off the armature wire inside to get it to work.

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Working out proportion even after all these weeks. Steve looked at my sculpt and called out that the butt and thighs were kinda baby proportioned so I made things a little thicker, but now I have to re-resolve the legs next week.

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Two more weeks left to finish sculpting Peter from BAMG.

And bad news - he says he’s not going to get less buff. And that because summer season is coming up, we’re only going to see more muscle definition as he cuts weight.

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Second week with Peter and the usual sculpting crew.

I donated a bucket of scrubs wipes because Steve was always buying them.

Annoyed because the guy running the session asked the model to stand on the floor which changes the angle of my block out.

Also the tape and photo ref of the pose isn’t being stuck to, so I had to make some small changes.

I’m not doing a good job of blocking out before doing detail. Next week I may strip down and start over, or at least rough out over the detail I started adding.

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Last night of this pose with Paloma.

Did a pass on the back foot. Clipped the left arm wire and roughed in the forearm and left hand on her neck.

Went back and pushed in some details where shadows and plane breaks looked strong to me.

Lenny mentioned that the right armpit transition as well as the right shoulder could use better definition. I wasn’t able to get much more improvement there.

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Got some additional positive feedback from Jerome, and spent time working on legs, feet, hips and shoulder joints. Paloma had gone to superbowl city in SF and hurt her left leg in a foot race with her family, running on astroturf, so she had a knee wrap on. She told us about Chilean food.

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Second to last sculpture session with Paloma. Worked on legs and feet, back and right hand.

I had subtracted so much this time I ended up adding some mass back.

I also made some stronger depressions and smoothed out highlight planes which made visual sense but not volumetric sense.

Jerome said he liked the base, and that the base would make it good for casting a bronze. But he said I’d have to take it to a place that does that and it might cost thousands. Idk.

It was a nice compliment coming from him. (he’s a long time sculptor at Pixar where I work, and has been building models and sculptures since before he worked on Nightmare before Christmas)

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Another session with Paloma tonight. Spent the time trying to get the ribs/torso junction blocked in ok.

Overworked it instead of moving around the model, but it feels ok to me.

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Worked through the legs and back shoulders today, and put a block below the feet to set Paloma’s height.

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Here’s last Thursday’s sculpt session with Paloma from BAMG.

I’m fighting the armature which has a big head loop and too much leg.

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