Eddie Holecko: Project One, Reference

I'm Eddie Holecko, junior visual effects major at the Savannah College of Art and Design. I love both sculpture and digital modeling and I look forward to this class because it integrates both techniques.  

Being interested in creatures and characters, I decided to sculpt and scan a maquette of an original creature inspired by one of my favorite artists, H.R. Giger. He is responsible for designing the very famous alien creature in Ridley Scott's film Alien.

Below are a few images of Giger's work.

Briana Mateo: Inspiration and Scanned Images

 

This is the process of how I made my clay man scan. Here is one of my sketches.

 

 

I started off with wood, aluminum foil and clay.

 

 

After it was made out of clay, I painted it white so the scanner could read it better.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here are some images of some of my scans. In order to put the images taken by Rapid Works, I drew dots that would help put the images together.

 

 

 

Here are some photos of my serial stacked object next to the clay man.

 

 

 

Laser Etching

This process was not to hard to learn, and only required a design with different colors to represent different depths for the laser cutter which can be done in Illustrator in about a day.


 




 You export it from this in to Rhino and you get this!


 





 You finally send it to the laser printer and it will carve it out for you.