3d Printed Facial Cybernetics
I designed, 3d printed and painted a whole lot of small costume cybernetics to wear, trade and give away at an immersive cyberpunk event. It was fun returning to the challenges and rewards of 3d modeling for reality! None of them were directly modeled on existing sources, though some have clear primary influences.
Lead with the final product! I wanted to create a range of small, light pieces, sculpted based on real anatomy, that I could print on my small resin 3d printer, hand-paint, and easily stick to my face with Prosaide or other prosthetic adhesives.
It started with a scan of myself, from my Revopoint handheld scanner. Not perfect, but with a bit of cleanup, it was accurate enough.
I roughed out basic shapes in Maya, conforming the bottom to the skin of my scan, before detailing, then subdividing aggressively so it would print with a nice smooth look.
I spent a lot of time messing with shape and proportion until I could find aesthetics I liked.
I managed to create quite a few designs, of pretty varied styles. They're meant to work either individually or in combination.
All pieces were handpainted individually with brushed acrylics and paint markers.
I used a lot of layering, washes, and drybrushing.
Some needed hard edge highlights, which were really easy with the paint markers.
Photographing tiny pieces is quite hard.
The orange/gold and the pink/blue color schemes were created with single washes of two-tone iridescent paints, where different pigments settled differently.