I picked up a neat little taxidermy bat skeleton from Etsy seller Artem Mortis a few days ago with the intention of giving it as a gift. It took a while to arrive, and…
Model to Mask – Elias Comes Together
October 12, 2020
After the completion of my earlier modeling work, the mask received a few changes. I brought the geometry into ZBrush and spent a little bit of time refining the teeth, bone shapes, and textures on the horns.
Nuclear Football
October 9, 2020
If I haven’t made it clear yet, I love Fallout. Love it. I’m not as big a fan of Fallout 76 for a variety of reasons that don’t belong on this blog, but it…
Focus Takes Flight
October 7, 2020
Following on the heels of my work designing the Antiquated Murgleis Focus, I churned the parts out on my Makergear M2 printer…
The Burning Blade
October 7, 2020
With the Murgleis suitably reinforced, the only thing left to do was paint…
And my axe!
October 5, 2020
After the Antiquated Murgleis sword and focus, I had a few commission requests for other weapons from Final Fantasy XIV. One of the more interesting ones was the ‘Malignant Moggle Mogaxe’ – try saying…
The Fallout Overlay Creation Kit
October 30, 2018
As some readers may know, I occasionally work on assets for streaming games. This started because I used to have a display that ran at 1920×1200, which is a bit off-ratio from the normal…
Red Mage Items Made Practical
June 18, 2018
Our Red Mage commission also involved fabricating a spell-casting offhand ‘orb’ or crystal. Much like every other part of this commission project, I vastly underestimated the amount of work that was going to be…
Reinforcing the Murgleis
April 5, 2018
I have a few thoughts about 3D printing. It is a fantastic way of producing items with engineered precision and intricate detail. It is also not always the silver bullet for every task. Our…
Modeling an Ancient Magus
March 24, 2018
We were approached to help make the mask and some other elements of the character Elias Ainsworth from the anime series The Ancient Magus Bride. I’m a fan of macabre skull stuff to begin…
The Sum of its Parts
March 5, 2018
After weeks of sanding through the evenings on this thing, the antiquated murgleis is finally coming together! We fully assembled the prop, which is not something I actually planned on doing at this stage;…
This Baby is an Antique!
January 28, 2018
We were presented with the fun-yet-daunting prospect of recreating the Antiquated Murgleis from Final Fantasy XIV. This weapon (and the orb that pairs with it) is the signature equipment of the Red Mage class…
Of Mesopotamian Supermen
December 16, 2017
The title’s not a typo, and I’m not drunk. This post’s about one of my guilty pleasures, and it will require a bit of explanation! There’s a lot of text in this post mostly because…
Riding Small-Scale Lightning
December 14, 2017
I regret how long this has been taking me, but work has been driving me nuts lately, and I’m also doing my best to teach myself how to design the printed circuit boards I…
Animation and Other Tricks
December 3, 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWyCw7mRVhs I’ve been busy the last few days with the programming work on the portable Voight-Kampff scanner and I’m happy to say I have some decent results to show for my efforts. I’ve learned…
Profiles and Production
November 23, 2017
Giving thanks for Thanksgiving, at least for the time off it gives me. Profile pages are coded up and done now. I’ve made things easy for myself here by setting up a few profile…
Code Switchin’ Replicants
November 15, 2017
Alright, here is that post I’ve been owing for a while, and it’s going to be as dumb as technical as the rest because I promised that’s how I was going to write this…
A Bit of Screen Time
November 7, 2017
A few weeks ago I sent Doug Harlocker, the props master for Blade Runner 2049, a message asking for information about this prop. I never got a response. That’s totally fine, and what I…
Prototyping the Scanner
November 1, 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwlVqF_BDNE I had time to rig up a quick test of the initial Voight-Kampff electronics setup. I have had a bunch of projects where I have prototyped something on a larger arduino (i.e. an…
Blinded by the Light
October 31, 2017
Over on TheRPF.com, a user named simply ‘stan’ shared some interesting numbers – measurements, apparently, for the screen-used Voight-Kampff prop? I don’t know where these dimensions actually came from, as stan’s responses have been a bit…
