Hello friends has it already been four months even though in my last video. I said it'd only take two months
Anyways the day has finally come the most requested character since the very beginning of this channel
I present to you my 3d printed tiny Rick
right off the bat
I wanted to talk about the design that I went with the original tiny rick is pretty much the same drawing as grown-up Rick
But with shorter arms and legs I thought that design was a little boring and I want to do something more original and stylized
Eventually I came up with this character sheet outlining all the different features that I wanted to incorporate into my model
Starting off with the body. I wanted to focus on one theme to give him a short squat
Look by making him short
But still giving his arms and legs a certain amount of thickness
Creates the sense that even though he's tiny he still looks more like an adult rather than a child
This is actually a very common tactic in the medieval fantasy genre when they designed dwarves for the clothing
I sculpted the details right onto his body since we're going to eventually animate and 3d print this model
I wanted to keep things nice and simple instead of making the jacket super detailed as it might cause us problems later on
The shoes and hands were pretty simple just build up the mesh with basic blobs trim it down and smooth it out
The idea was to keep them short and stubby to match the overall
Feel of a character always try to think what kind of theme you're going with and try to reinforce it as often as you can
Which is key to good character design
Wrinkles on clothing are always easy to do all you have to do is make quick slashes into the sculpt and then gently
Smooth it out adding a lot of wrinkles on a shirt also gives a sense that he's got a bit of a chubby cut again
reinforcing that short stubby look
making the head is dead simple first start off with the face of a grotesque
human snowman hybrid based on the obscure
1990 video game snow brothers then
Take that disgusting head pull a tumor out of it in the general shape of Gerald from Hey Arnold
And then finally give it the Dragon Ball Z Vegeta treatment, and that should all boil down into a perfect tiny Rick head
So when I sculpted the general shape of the hair I made it symmetrical on both sides to save on time
But now for the fine detail you want to make each spike unique
we also want to add a little mass to reinforce that overall chubby theme that we're going for and
Adding some streaks of the spikes also gives it that hairy look
Finally we top it off with a classic butthole looking pupils Rick and Morty is famous for which I always wondered why they were
Drawn like that and finally took the time during the making of this video to find out
It's a holdover from the original original
Short that I did for channel 101 where they were just sloppily drawn, and I was like these are better than the shitty
Tryhard drawings. I did at the character, so I'm just gonna use these shitty drawings
And so that was one thing that I was like you know what I'm gonna keep the scribbly pupils. And i don't give a
Now the key to painting is to first do a couple hours of work
Then have ZBrush crash on you only to give you a sadistic glimmer of hope by saying
oh Maybe I didn't crash, maybe i'm just thinking real hard so you pray and pray hoping you didn't lose everything
Only for it to finally kick you in the nuts and while you're on the ground
Snort up something deep in the back of its throat and spit an error into your mouth
So then you say fuck you ZBrush
I'm gonna paint this in Mari instead
So to get the colors right the easiest way is to grab an image of the character and use the eyedropper
tool
Then just paint some darker colors to simulate the shading especially areas around the eyes under the jacket or in between wrinkles
Finally we pose the character using the mask tools in ZBrush, and we're ready for rendering and printing
Yeah, I got bored and I thought hey why you such a grumpy douche Rick go to the garage transfer your mind a new younger
Clone of yourself and get embroiled in some youthful hijinks. What's the BFD so here? I am I'm tiny Rick
Welcome to the Aperture Science computer-aided Enrichment Center
You've done a great deal in a small time span
You've done, so well in fact that I received some interesting offers for
Real scared really get on alert high alert over here
Target acquired
Hahah, human fool, nothing of this world can harm me, for i am Aku, the shogun of sorrow, the deliverer of darkness..
Your new master
Oh
Oh gravity falls it is good to be back names bill cipher
I control space matter time itself
Do you have any idea what I'm like.. when i'm mad?
Ooh la la, Someone's gonna get laid in college
Bacon pancakes, makin bacon pancakes, take some bacon and i'll put it in a pancake, bacon pancakes
thats what its gonna make, bacon pancaaaaaaaake
This castle is in unacceptable condition.... unacceptableeeee
Yes i did it! In your face
Hey guys, so here's the final print
I'm pretty happy on how tiny Rick turned out the details and the coloring showed up really well
but given how popular the request was and wanted to do something a
Little extra for this video and include a couple more bonus prints these were all based on the comments
I received so we've got tiny Rick with his portal gun Rick spaceship and
On my workbench Morty flip the pickle over come on flip the pickle Morty
You're not gonna regret it the payoff is huge boom big reveal. I'm a pickle
What do you think about that I turned myself into a pickle! i'm pickle rick!
As always if you want your own copy all these files are free to download from my website in the description below
And I just wanted to mention my patreon that I started don't worry
It's not that pay $1 and you get my love and a virtual hug bullshit
This is a Ron Swanson life lesson for you kids out there when you give someone money
You should get something back so for your support even at the lowest level
I've put up all my original files for these models
So if you're handy with modeling software you can customize or modify anything you want, and if you're not handy with modeling software
or want to learn more
I've also put up full in-depth video tutorials with commentary on how I made tiny rick
Or if you just like my videos and feel like throwing me a tip you can go to
Patreon.com/3dprintguy
Finally i want to take some time and thank, everyone for all their support, I'm nearing 100 000 subscribers soon
And it wouldn't be possible if it weren't for every single one of you you guys are truly the best and as always
Thanks for watching and leave me a comment on what I should make next