#002 Reckful

Initial Thoughts

It wasn't much of a suprise to me that Reckful won the vote in the Forsen community.
To an antisocial streamer like Forsen who rarely ever hung out with any other streamers, at least in the recent years, Reckful might have seem like one of the few streamer friends Forsen had.

Convincing win.

At this point I just wrapped up the Forsen statue sculpt, but I didn't make it printable because the whole keying thing was too overwhelming for me. So lets tackle that. Sooner or later I wanted to look into it anyways to make toys down the line. Did a bit of research and turns out ZBrush can easily do all the keying with booleans and it actually wasn't that diffcult to pull off.

SO! I settled on doing the likeness and add a full body pose!
The subject himself standing there alone would be a little bit lame, so adding props is a given. Thinking of iconic momentents or things that Reckful did and had, I immidiately thought of the duck right, the iconic duck sitting there, Reckfuls' plush mascot. To bind both somewhat together I wanted to either make Reckful/Duck piggyback pose or Reckful leading the way for the duck to go. I chose the latter even tho it's less funny or flashy purely because I wanted to save it for another series.

Process

Started as always by gathering references. Actually was a little bit easier than Forsen, as Reckful took a lot of photos of himself and in general. However, he smiled in a lot of them which made it difficult in process as neutral expressions work the best for me. I ended up with a lot of different focal lengths and a lot of images where he was smiling, but it was workable. Luckily he had a good facecam and went full picture often so I took a lot of screen grabs from there iirc.

I started the sculpting of this likeness before I went and did the Forsen statue, so it had sat a while and already looked weird to me, in fact i moved around volumes up until the very end, was a hard one. I realized that Reckful had a very nuanced and filled face which made it hard for me to sort of nail the likeness as there were no prominent landmarks I could lean on. Kinda worked out in the end tho.
Did the hair by hand this time and it kinda looked better. The clothing was again done in Marvelous Designer for practise, but I had to do a lot of correction and handsculpt in the majority of wrinkles and creases, additionally a bit of moving around the volumes and called it a day.
I reused Forsens shoes as a base for Reckfuls shoes, which is why that went relatively quick.
Quickly made the duck as a new subtool and posed it into scene, not a lot of sculpting involved escept for the seams. As I couldn't convey the fluffiness in the fur, I just left it for another day. For balancing reasons I gave Reckful a guitar. Got a couple of cool memories from him playing it. Made the pose a bit more natural so why not.

The new and interesting part would now come when I finished the overall sculpting, the keying of the model! As mentioned earlier everything is doable in right inside ZBrush, in fact there's a lengthy tutorial that goes into the basics of prepping a model for printing which I followed pretty much all the way. Adapted a couple of little things from observation and forum posts for starting out in prepping multi piece models this tutorial covers pretty much everything.
-> 3D Printing: Prepping Proko Model

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