Plaster or bronze Bust for an infographist

[Zoï]

Hello, I'm new french user, and i've got a request for you. ( sorry if my english isn't good )
I'm an CG 3d infographist for animation film and i search a bust for recreate in 3d. but it's difficult to find a simple bust with little/no hair (too difficult) to learn the face anatomy, like the Voltaire of Houdon
if you have some face, back, left or right pictures of an academic study bust, it's perfect.Or if you got some internet adress where i can get this, it's perfect.

thanks a lot.please reply

[CHANOC]

Hi Zoi

Check this photo album link to Jamie Salmon works, maybe it helps you

http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/AlbumList?u=4225808

[Zoï]

this is a fabulous work !!! i like working with expressive faces like Messerschmidt's sculptures,like this :


this is a friends work


but for this work I'll prefer something more academic or antique. So if you know something that i could love please help me.Thanks for the quickly reply

[fritchie]

Zoi - Welcome to the Community! Your English is fine, and your request for images of heads with little on no hair is readily understandable. I'm afraid I have no suggestions, myself, but perhaps others will. Houdon's Voltaire is a wonderful piece.

[Zoï]

thanks for the reply but i didn't found.... i visit so many gallery this week...
my request is really important... please.. help me

[anne (bxl)]

Bonjour Greg,
Ne t'inquiètes pas pour ton anglais, ils sont très tolérants avec les fautes de language (y compris les leurs...). Et bienvenue sur ce site.
Si tu cherches des représentations académiques, vois plutôt du côté des musées. Contactes l'académie des beaux-arts ou dans les archives du musée des beaux-arts de Lille.

Si tu veux un buste en 3D tu peux aussi te rendre au musée du cinquantenaire à Bruxelles, ils ont un atelier de moulage (à visiter!) et vendent de nombreuses reproductions. Pour contact, http://www.kmkg-mrah.be (certainement moins cher qu'au Louvre).
Bonne chance à toi!

[Zoï]

Superbe, quelle trouvaille !!.... merci encore, j'avais écumé tous les musées du nord de la france, Rouen et Paris sans succés. merci merci

[sculptor]

Hi ZOI

reading the last 2 posts, my deficiencies in language acquisition skills has reared it's ugly head(as in I ain't got a clue)

back to the head------
I always sculpt the head bald---then add hair----
I find bald women darned sexy
I will attach a picture of one of the heads "Wally"

I hope this helps

rod

[anne (bxl)]

approximative translation: I adviced him to visit a museum in brussels (1 hour driving from his place) that has a molding departement that sales thousands of classical academic plaster figure in 3d. and I guess he found exactly what he has been looking for for weeks...

please greg, let us know about the result of your animation research!
viens nous montrer le résultat de ton travail!

[sculptor]

Thanks Anne

I had taken the link but didn't have either language offered.

As the children of the children of the children of immigrants, many of us have lost all of our ancestral tongues.
(and, I suspect, a great deal more)

Rod

[Zoï]

No problem, but i've got internet only on saturday or sunday, so you must wait a week for that. Every week i'll post my work in progress. I finaly begin to create a bust who is in Louvres museum... I'll go in brussels this week.
thanks Anne, Rod and others for the stuff...

[Zoï]

this is my first post about my work in progress, enjoy



there are no textures, no lighting and lots of mistakes
working about 7hours ...
i still work now on the ears, the back and the assymetry...

[icreate]

my husband works in 3D and has written a couple of books on it. http://www.delalfor.com He said you could find free images of a head at 3dcafe.com look under free images.

hope this helps.

[fritchie]

Zoi - I hesitate to make suggestion on another artist's work in progress, but I do suggest you look at making the shoulders wider. Nothing is wrong the way they are, but most busts provide a wider view of that area.

You are making excellent progress. Let us see more as you go further.

[Zoï]

to be continued...

[JAZ]

Zoi,
The figure you have produced is intriguing. Please explain a bit more. Is the bust only digital or is it an actual prototype? It looks like porcelain.
JAZ

[Zoï]

of course not... this is only digital. I use a shader look like porcelain just to see the specular level, and the reflect. the original bust is in marbre, or look like... the last render will be in plaster...

[Zoï]

Sorry, I couldn't connect on the web, so now i can give you some news, and WorkInProgress about my work. This scene ins not totally finish. The bust is done. All the scene is full 3d, i didn't begin the compositing, but my boss like it.
So, if you have some comments...Thanks

[Zoï]

A night view....

[Zoï]

any comment ?


my url : http://www.gregssc.site.voila.fr/

[fritchie]

Excellent work, Zoi/Greg. I checked your website, but my connection is slow, so I saw only a small part. This is the kind of technology I mentioned in another section might displace actual 3D sculpture altogether, or relegate it to the state of “precious” or “archaic”. It’ll be fascinating to watch these computer developments.

Congratulations!