"Legs" a Silent Hill halloween swap pony for Okami (mild gore warning)

[Eluluu]

I had the pleasure of creating for Miss Okami Amaterasu again, who had a couple really interesting items on her wishlist... I almost went with a Chernobyl paintwork (an interest we share) but I wanted to do more sculpting this time around cause I did a paintwork last year. So I decided on making something from Silent Hill to go with the other customs she already has... since i wanted to make something simple and fast naturally my stupid, evil, vindictive muse settled on the mannequin spider monster from the second movie! I would have liked to put another week into his paintwork but I was already running late from juggling work, the hubbys chemo and radiation treatments, and general depressed 'I dont wannas" but I'm still pleased with how he turned out, and I'm glad Okami seems to like him and he got there so fast and suffered minor damage that Okami says she can repair. SO SO SO SORRY I was hoping he had enough bubblewrap and air pockets in there to keep him safe, but only so much you can do with all those delicate bits.

ahem, anyways, enough words, on with the pictures!

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the reference pics I was going off of, it was suuuper fun trying to count how many legs the thing had and where they attached.

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I'll put the WiP pics in a spoiler to keep from clogging the thread. I'll say one thing for Legs, here... it was a perfect opportunity to clear out a LOOOT of bait poses i personally dont like, and was prolly never gonna get around to using unless requested. good cheap therapy: chop up almost a dozen ponies!!! The hubby stayed far, far, away from my craftroom for this piece.

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picked out the heads, started toying around with how to make the legs, and took more enjoyment than was totally proper splitting the one head down the middle...

the entire thing is built off of a frame of pony innards, aluminum foil, and electrical tape.

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"pony cores"

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the main legs are constructed and the heads laid out... only the beginning of a grueling process and my war on gravity. =P

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building the foundation for the split head. armiture wire and a bit of tape.

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first round of sculpting on the split head. the teeth were individually sculpted and left to dry to be put in at a later stage.

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and i left a length of pipecleaner exposed out the back, wrapped thru the wire mesh of the membrane and sculpted over. to give the main head more stability when i anchor it to the rest of the bulk.

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forgot to mention- feet were wired into the heads and magic sculpt packed inside where the wire was to hold it in place. the body was bulked up with some "ponycores" and held together with more pipecleaners. the legs are on cores made of aluminum foil to keep the piece lighter, with electrical tape over that to keep the segments from sliding and to give me a better surface to sculpt over.

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body was built up and rounded off with more foil, and shoulder sockets taped in place, 5 for the legs, 3 for 'head stalks' and 3 for 'arms' (1 is under the body) o, and 2 to hold the split head's  arms.

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and we're taping... and we're taping...

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and now we're at the point where the custom went thru a few... er... unfortunate, shapes. here it looks kinda like an evil potato. sculpting the membrane and muscles around the sockets.

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more evil potato.

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evil potato with LEGS!!! segments held in place with wedges of foil and tape, but i could only sculpt one set of joints a day, to give them time to harden so they wouldnt change angles when i was handling him. and i saved the ankles for the last step, so if it started to get front heavy or something i would have some wiggle room for a last minute emergency repositioning.

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arms sorted out. same deal. pipecleaner core with foil and tape.

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testing angles for the heads.

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finally taping up the ankles

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closeup of finished maw. added more membrane  and inset the fangs.

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noticed the longest arm was sagging from some weak joints, making the head droop. so hiked it up again and reinforced the segments that were showing wear while i was waiting for the underarm to set.

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the main segment that was causing problems. looks like the sculpting didn't overlap the seam enough for it to hold onto the contour of the segment, giving the joint more bend than i wanted.

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headlift. =P

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the joint after it was bulked up a bit.

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sculpting finished.

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basecoated in a dirty ivory and red, given a few washes of darker red and plum, and splotched with deep purple in a few spots

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basic paintwork done.

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glossed with a brush on sealer, and added clear water effects to give him translucent drippy gloopy bits. (thats the opaque white sludge on it... it dries clear)

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im glad you like him Okami, please post a pic of him with the rest of your collection if you get a moment, itd be great to see him with the rest of the series. =]

[Bekuno]

Oh my god!! I love Silent Hill and this is just way too cool!! Thanks for sharing the WIP pics as well, I loved seeing your progress. Amazing job!!

[dashesndots]

That is so. Fricken. Cool!

I didn't really care for the 2nd movie, but it did have some wicked creature designs and this was one of them!  Great job bringing it to life!  So creepy!

[Roogna]

:jawdrop:
wow
that's impressive and amazing and so awesome!
that split head!!
loved seeing wips too!

[Eluluu]

i agree first movie was awesome, second they seemed to lean too hard on the 3D gimmick and didnt even try to clean up the effects... or the plot... but this monster seemed promising... if they'd just tried a little harder.

[MikeysGrrrl]

I love all things Silent Hill! You did an amazing job bringing this custom to life!

[Honeycomb]

Wow!! Speechless!
I hope you could ship her (it?) without breaking anything off!
Totally awesome!

[Moonbreeze]

Holy moly! That's awesome!

[carlabarla]

Freaking epic!!

[Leave a Whisper]

Wow! That's incredible! Really neat to see your progress too..

[Galactica]

WOW! Seriously EPIC

[kaoskat]

Seriously awesome and completely creepy!!!!!

[pinkkittywinks]

That's insane!!!!

Love pkw xxx

[NoPonySpecial]

Holy crow.

[BlackCurtains]

Dude, that's flippin' awesome! That was my favorite monster from the second movie, which I agree could have been much better. I never thought I'd see a pony version of it. Great work! I'm uh, a little jealous