Obviously the prints didn’t come off the printer looking like that, Rick used his make-up artist skills to bring the prints to life. Once I started decimating the ztools and using the 3d print exported plugin- I love you pixologic - things worked a lot better.” It took forever to slice the model if at all. At first I tried printing models with millions of polys. Most of the problems were (down to the fact that) I don't know what I am doing. I finally got these results with a lot of trial and error, about a month’s worth.

Rick had little to know knowledge of how to use the MakerBot when he acquired it and like all good printers trial and error were involved as he explained in a forum post: “It took me quite a while to get up to speed with the MakerBot mainly because I don't really know about this stuff. Recently during a charity auction he took a punt on a MakerBot Replicator 2, and decided to try print out some of his ZBrush models, the results you can see in the gallery above are astonishing.

Rick is an avid user of the digital sculpting tool ZBrush, he makes prototypes of his monsters on the platform and often posts the results in the ZbrushCentral forums were he uses his nomme de plume MonsterMaker. His latest leap into monster model making involves 3D printing. Rick has always been known for keeping up with the times and using digital effects to complement physical makeup, movies like his last Academy Award victory, The Wolfman used CGI for the transformations but Benicio Del Toro was still covered in Yak hair come the end of said transformation. After reading about Jack Pierce’s process of creating Frankenstein’s monster Rick Baker decided henceforth to be known as Rick Baker-Monster Maker. Rick Baker is a seven-time Academy Award winner, his credits for special effects makeup include classics like Star Wars, An American Werewolf in London, The Exorcist and Michael Jackson’s Thriller video.Īs a child Rick was fascinated by Frankenstein’s Monster in the Boris Karloff 1931 adaptation of Mary Shelley’s famed novel.

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