Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Megabyte Mugg

Ah, who could forget a villain like Megabyte. Charismatic, poised and enunciates quite well. Too bad Tony Jay will never get to see this.

Sketched on the Mugg. I was torn between drawing the nose on his face, or actually sculpting it. But since my sculpting skills are not the best, I opted for drawing it on.
His back. There aren't many references for his rear, so I referenced it from the character sketch in the Reboot art book. That version included wires connected to his back, which I was also tempted to add, but felt it wouldn't be true to the show version.
Blue, gray and yellow paint to enhance all the metallic layers I'll have to be putting on.
All the painted layers. Gold, silver and metallic blue (which took a hard time getting right). The blue doesn't look that shiny, but in person, it really does. His eyes also need to be adjusted, as he simply looks psychotic.
Eyes fixed, mouth line draw in, and head fin molded and painted. Sean helped with the fin, as I didn't want to chance using clay again, so he suggested that Mighty Putty stuff. It ended up working really well, but began hardening within 10 minutes, so it looks a tad bit lumpy. The two things stopping me from using this stuff again is that 1. it's expensive, and 2. it smells like ass rubbed in dead fish.

The top of his head fine. You can see some of the shininess in the blue, but it's still a lot better IRL. One of the hardest Muggs I've ever had the pleasure of doing.

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