Mirn’s Book of Renders

[Michael Mirn]

More progress on that blue whale (coming from 3D to real world):

It is funny but it does loo ugly in the beginning:

Cutting all these loose parts off. Its really dusty:

All day long:

I’ll need twice as much for that one:

It;s getting there)

[Keith]

Cool! It’s really nice to see some of your work in progress Michael! 👍

I hope you will share some more pictures too – painting is next ?

[Michael Mirn]

Thanks, @beefkeef

No, painting is ways away) It needs more polishing and I’ll add more details after that. Eyes, scars, bumps and wounds, all these crevices around fins etc. Then the coloring will begin – the airbrush is still on the way thought.

I will show the whole process of turning a 3d model into a real object then.

What lies ahead: completion of the cast + I need to prepare a board for it. Painting comes next. Then I’ll pour resin over it and add different pigments (I’m still thinking what colors to take and what’d be the best way to designate the whale – foam or waves). And varnishing.

[Michael Mirn]

It’s almost done — such a long journey!
I’m trying to produce 1 whale per week, that’s my goal, but 2 whales per month has been a solid pace so far. I simply can not produce them faster than this. But its all good)

1. Base form: it is not polished yet.

2. Base layer. Usually it takes 3 or 4 layers to go deep enough under its skin.

3. Some details: bumps, scars, tiny little marks. Usual thing for whales. Although blue ones are way smoother than the others.

4. Final deep dark blue layer:

5: Some fine details:

6. And golden sparks too! Really love them. There is so much fun to find a way to put these colors on that skin. I use brushes, clothes, sponges, fingertips, toothpicks. Tools are everywhere! 

7. Gonna pour some resin over that whale:

8. And pouring it over! There are 2 layers of resin now. And I’ll have to wait for awhile and then add another 2 layers with some foam and white threads.

[jammingammon]

Beautiful! You’ve certainly got a wide-range of skills. 

[Michael Mirn]

Thanks a million, @jammingammon

The path to these boards was quite long. Firstly I went through watercolors, oil, wood and only then discovered plaster and resin and fell in love with them)

[Michael Mirn]

So I’ve promised to post some updates) Ok. here they are:
I’ve finished my whales:

And blender helped a lot during the sculpting process!

Did a little bit of an animation too (just a camera animation):
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It’s still deep WIP ofc. Gonna finish the interior of the car and animate it again and then add some things and do another round.

And modeled some assets for a current Unity project (I can post some updated for it if you like, but it is far from finished):

But it’s too boring, right?) I am working on a little tiny piece of an animation rn and I’m going to post some updates for it here.
Thanks for finding my Polybook! Hope you won’t regret it 8D

[Martin Bergwerf]

Great! lovely to see this!

For the car interior, don’t forget that ALT+B can be your friend:

Just mentioning it, because I have often forgotten to use it and struggled sooo much with interiors 🙂

[Michael Mirn]

@spikeyxxx That’s masking, right?
Yes, thanks for a reminder. A really great tool to work with a complicated models)
Now I’ll definitely finish that interior!

[Martin Bergwerf]

It’s hiding part of the Mesh, so you can see inside… it’s a sort of masking yes.

[Keith]

Lovely to see your whale sculptures Michael, thanks for sharing them! 

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