Welcome to master and apprentice today. We're making devil sword Dante from Devil May Cry 5
This is Marcus report for the last 17 years Marcus has been working in the film industry as a production designer art director and prop
Fabricator and this is Adam Ellis a novice cosplayer and a systems administrator for Risha beef production company. We work for it
we're gonna show you what it takes to make professional level props from your favorite movies and video games and teach you the tricks the
Pros use that you can do at home. This is master and apprentice
Ahri Marcus, so we are making another giant sword which is of course my favorite it ticks all my boxes, right?
It's just got its got fire. It's got light. It's got dragon claws. It's got high contrast metal finishes
This is a great sword the materials and details for the blade were meant to be similar to those of
Dante in his Devil Trigger form it would open like a gate with the idea being that the blade can't be completely contained from the
Inside so one cool thing we learned from the design team was that it was inspired by two different concepts
the idea that the sword would have clones that would act on their own and
The idea that the sword would be sheathed like a fish being deboned, you know
We have stuff that we haven't really done before
so
how are we gonna tackle sort of like the lava here in the center and you have that lighting on the edge and then you
Have a whole different beast, which is these big dragon claws
We have a lot of hand sculpting we're going to have to do we're gonna be making some silicone molds
The idea is that we're gonna have to back like this and the only way to really do that is to do clear plastic
I mean all this stuff looks really complex. Yes
So if you have to rate it on unlike da Marcos scale, what would you where'd you put it?
I would say this is this bill just hitting a nine easy. Let me walk you through some steps here. Great
so we're gonna make a wood blade and we're gonna need a bandsaw a belt sander an orbital sander and a very large piece of
Maple next up is the center core for this we're gonna need some sculpting tools water clay silicone clear
resin plywood and
styrene strips for the lava sides are gonna use the same exact tools and materials as the center core for the Dragon Claw guard you'll
Need a 3d model a 3d printer and some sandpaper along with filament to print it out epoxy putty
Superglue and baking soda for filling silicone and casting plastic for the handle section
You need a 3d printer a welder a plasma cutter a grinder some and cups and buckets and we're also gonna use some epoxy putty
Superglue baking soda silicone and some casting plastic
The pommel of jewel is similar to the guard but you'll only need a 3d printer some silicone and clear casting resin for the lighting
You're going to need a soldering iron and some wire strippers the materials
You're going to need some LED lights the wires themselves
solder 18 650 batteries a buck converter chip a low voltage charge chip some flux
Rosin and some heat shrink wrap when it comes to assembly
You'll need some sculpting tools some Plexus to glue it all together and some epoxy putty so the final step is painting paint brushes paper
Towels mixing cups. We're also gonna use some high particulate black paint and some standard silver acrylic
We're also gonna need some white spray paint to do some of the base coat for the UV paint
If you don't have a 3d printer, you're just gonna have to hand sculpted out of clay
It's a tough job, but it's doable
And if you don't have a plasma cutter you can still use an angle grinder with a cut-off wheel
Both of these will be less precise. But if you take your time and do your best they should look pretty good
We've got our piece of maple
We have a pattern here full-size print of the sword
The next few steps are gonna be to take this over the bandsaw. We are going to cut it out
We're gonna stand in prime it and get it ready for being the foundation for everything else. We're here
We're gonna do a Damascus steel sort of finish
The idea is that we have
two different kinds of metallic paints one sort of in the medium range ones in a really dark range because you're using
metallics and grays and neutral colors
it's going to read like a
Damascus steel as opposed to a wood great structure and I'm using some old brushes that are already sort of hardened and
Crunchy if you use a clean brush, this is just gonna wash paint over the whole thing
This is gonna sort of dark on the overall hue of
Everything that we have here
You do need to rest your hand a little bit use this as as a way to stabilize what you're doing
okay, that way when you lock your arm and you drag it over its gonna create a real straight line a
Little easier. Oh my god so much easier. Okay, great. We've got a significant amount of painting done
I got all the beveling done. This is more or less the structure in the basis for the whole rest disorder
This is pretty much ready to accept everything else that we need to make great. Yeah
Of course Colburn we're gonna sculpt some clay we're gonna work on the center core section
we have a very specific size that we want the
Sculpted piece to be so we are going to give us a guide. We are going to hammer in these rails
We're going to smear in some clay just scrape it all off. Then. We're going to sculpt the texture
We are gonna start some initial lines that sort of match kind of what's going on here
We scooped out all those little valleys we smooth over them with a paintbrush and some water
Now we're going to remove our rails
On our styrene and then we're gonna fold this up and it's going to give us a perfect two inch and a half tall
vessel in mixing silicone and quarter
All right Marcus so we have made our mold from the piece we sculpted. Yep
We repeated the process on the lava crust. We've done two sides of this and here's one
Yep, and we have a mold of that with some clear orange plastic for them. You got it
Yeah, the idea is that we want this to be optically clear so that the lights that we have behind it will show through right?
It's a beautiful deep orange looks very tasty. It looks like candy love it
Okay, so we've just poured the centerpiece. This is still very wet, but going to dry
Yes, but our crust piece has been poured earlier. So it is ready to be pulled. It's ready to pull
So, you know the sculpted surface because it was matte finish has kind of a dull look to it on the outside
but if you flip it on the back side, you can see it's like really shiny and see-through the light is going to
Transmit all through the back here and it's gonna want to stop at this matte surface on the top side
Yeah, this is looking good all of our our clear cast orange parts look great, I'm really happy with them
They've got really good like transmission sort of qualities where you kind of dance at a side angle
You can really see how the lights gonna carry through. It's pretty cool
we're gonna do a classic sort of dry brush technique where highest detail is gonna take the paint and
The lowest detail is not gonna have any paint on it
So when the light comes through it's gonna hopefully read Orange and that's what's gonna give us our little like lava fingers. Yes
Hey, all right Marcus so we've spent a good amount of time working on the Dragon Claw guard
We're lucky enough to have 3d models
Which is great because we knew exactly the proportion and the size these needed to be
We glue them to goat them together like this, right and that brings us up to this
So we had to look cracks like this one there. They showed me a little trick to fit. Yes
Coincidentally baking soda is a catalyst for super glue
You can kind of fill small gaps and cracks with this come back and drip some of this on it's going to soak in
It's gonna harden all at the same time and it's gonna fill your crack when something's being displayed on the computer screen
It doesn't need three-dimensionality at at a scale this big right? No what we do cuz it's huge
So whenever we printed these there's very little actually there
It's like the shape and form is there but none of the scales in the detail that we really need is on there
so what we've done is we've taken some epoxy putty and
We've sculpted on top of what was here. We're using a two-part epoxy putty you pick even parts of this stuff out
You mix it together real tiny. We just like rolled some of this on our fingers. So these would get applied
Onto here, right?
And you can always come back and kind of smooth it over but you can see how that's kind of how we've gotten here
Yeah, this really this is one of those processes where all the cloud looks so great now just do it 700 more times
but it's given us the detail that we really need in one and at that point we made a mold and
Here is our giant beast
Let's can pull it out having this look. Hey, you ready? Yeah, you hold still come
Okay, here it is
This is a significant step the only thing that's gonna keep it from falling apart
I think this is our handle steps. We started with a 3d printed section that we knew matched our other parts. Mm-hmm
We then made a box mold of this. We then took a
Solid metal rod that's about three quarters of an inch thick
We are going to insert this into the mold like this plastic is gonna backfill this entire negative space
Okay
Started getting warm
You should be able to look at that
Here we go
It's way program to come out. Oh my god. This thing is heavy
And we also 3d printed and created a mold for the pommel and jewel section
So we poured the same clear casting resin that we used on the core and the lava sides to give the jewel that translucent light
Property Marcus. This is looking amazing
Electronics time mr
Marcus we have a rig that we've made before that we're gonna kind of use as a guide for ourselves
To make another one. Did you want to show me how to wire some of this up and solder? Sure? Yes
A lot of times people will come in and put just a tiny bit of solder on the pad itself the pads that little rectangular
Metallic sheen kind of finished thing. So then at this point, we're just gonna kind of sit this on there
Leave the tip on long enough for this to mount
cool
There we go
There you go and give it some heat push it around perfect. There you go. That's it. I've done the soldering now
We'll just kind of repeat this process and you connect all these other little pieces. Awesome. So here's our claw
We have excavated quite a bit of foam here. I think we've made enough room
The idea is that we need to kind of get everything packed into this negative space here
So the idea is basically everything besides our wires are gonna be in there in some capacity. Yes once we get all this
Fit and arranged the way that we like it we're gonna insert the whole thing into the heat shrink
We're gonna hit it with a heat gun, and it should protect all of our components
I
Feel like we're in a good place
Everything is pretty much assembled. All of our core pieces are together
We've got seam lines that are just not looking the way that they need to look right?
So we have a negative space here along this Ridge that needs to be back filled
So we're using this epoxy putty it's a two-part product that when mixed together acts a lot like clay, but it hardens like stone
We're using it to fill in all the gaps between our pieces
The good news is if you mess up, don't worry, you can smooth it out with some water
You just want to make sure you do that before it dries
We are going to use this UV sensitive paint where we can't put light we're gonna put fluorescent paint
So we're gonna start by base coating white then we're gonna wipe it away
We're gonna spray some of this I'll wipe it away and then it's gonna have kind of a fluorescent pop
So we're going to use a black and silver dry brush technique here and then airbrush in the final two tails
Marcus here. It is. Devil sword Dante
That's pretty great it's amazing it looks really really good this is the coolest thing
I think we've made so far the lava effect in both the center and the claws
Looks incredible the other hand sculpting on this looks really good. These look like they're as bright as the actual light source
I know and that's rare we weighed it and it weighed over 33 pounds
extremely heavy
This is not something you want to cosplay. I could barely hold it. Yeah, I have to hold it like a surfboard
I feel I feel like the game has so many cool props and weapons and and I'm just I'm glad this is where we landed
Thank you so much capcom for making this insane build possible
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