Let’s turn Baby Yoda Evil…
Hey guys, I can’t get to my
casting equipment at the moment, so to occupy my time I thought I’d do a little CAD work.
Thangs.com have kindly sponsored this video so where else was I going to start
looking for inspiration but there, with over 2 millions 3D models to chose from free of charge.
I came across this fabulously cute Baby Yoda and I thought, as you do, let’s make him evil!
I mean, why not? There’s so many people asking will he or won’t he.
So as a fun CAD exercise, I thought I’d take away the guesswork.
Whether you use ZBrush or free software like Blender, you’ll need to import the STL file
and get tinkering, and this really is a valid and fun project. Watch this…
Amazing isn’t it. A little tweaking with the Move
brush on the eyebrows and mouth and he’s already 90% dark side.
I experimented a little, visualising the face of my mother-in-law to really
help me dial in that satanic madness and sheer delight at the misery of others.
Thankfully, that wonder of modern technology, the Undo button, makes experimentation easy.
Once I’d eventually captured the in-law glare,
I decided to move on to the ears. I felt they looked too rabbit-like and, once again, cute.
But at this point I wasn’t sure what needed doing and that cup was just shouting out at me.
No self-respecting evil character would drink from a cup. No… it has to go.
I wasn’t too bothered about it being overly neat, but the hands needed to be okayish at least.
So if he won’t use a cup, will he use? It’s got to be the skull of a slain enemy.
Once again Thang didn’t let me down and I was quickly able to convert this excellent skull
into a suitable darth drinks dispenser.
Now that’s an evil beverage container.
Hmmm… he needs some fangs.
Nope. That’s too big.
A baby fang. Perfect. But those ears are still bugging me.
Symmetry is something we find attractive, apparently.
But A-symmetrical somehow looks more real and in this instance I think, it looks unappealing.
He’s got to have a hood. All hoodlums need a hood. It’s a union requirement.
The ears are still too nice. Let’s take a chunk out of one.
I like that. But the other is crying out for an earring.
Finger sparks or not, he still needs a lightsabre and Thangs once again has a selection.
I fancied hanging this from a simple rope belt
and I new ZBrush could do it. The problem is, I didn’t know how.
After much experimentation, it was there. Now I just needed to tidy everything up a little.
No baby smooth skin for this guy. This really is a worthwhile exercise.
If, like me, you’re learning CAD, then using pre-existing models as a canvas is a great
way to experiment. The aim is to change the model significantly, using existing shapes like features
as a guide. This teaches us the sort of thing we need to be doing in our own sculptures. It
also helps us produce something imaginative and fun that we might not otherwise be able to do,
and download libraries like Thang give us lots of potential canvases to play with.
Eventually I came up with this.
I’m quite happy with it. It’s definitely an evil twin situation now.
Just for a bit of fun, and purely to educate myself, I experimented
with colour rendering and came up with this. Amazing how good CAD can make things look.
Now I downloaded all the files for this from Thangs.com, so my thanks to the original artists.
Given their generosity, it only seemed right to upload my Evil Baby Yoda to Thangs as well,
along with a few of my other files that previously I’ve shared with you guys.
So there you have it. A simple but incredibly useful self-tutoring exercise for you guys.
Improve your CAD skills and share your models on Thangs.com and other file libraries.
I hope you enjoyed this one guys. Take care and thanks for watching.