Hi everybody, I have a quick question for all of you moc creators out there.... When you're trying to build a large scale dragon, what procedure do you normally follow? I've looked at Sava's work (stroke of genius) and at all the ones in brick built beast, but I need to know more.....
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Jason
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Before I do anything, I make sure to do a lot of research. If you don't know what types of joints and joint technology are out there available to you, you're going to have a very hard time building your beast, unless you're building a sculpture, and then joints don't matter much.
I usually start with a color scheme or a gimmick. For the four big dragons, I had both. For example: For the blue dragon, I wanted a sea dragon with flippers and fins, and decided she should be blue and white (like a fish/whale/generic sea creature). For the Juvenile dragon, I had seen Travis Dickinson's Terra Dragon, and I had fallen in love with the teeth. So I started with the idea of building the dragon around the mouth design.
When I finally begin construction, I always start with the head. With the black dragon, I started with the hand, but that was more of an engineering test to see if it were possible and whether or not I was wasting my time. I built the head immediately after, and for all other creatures from then to now I've always built the head first. The size, shape, and color scheme of the head really dictates what the rest of the creature looks like.
I then work on building the limbs - neck, tail, front legs (if any), back legs, and wings or other extra limbs (if any). It doesn't really matter to me which I build first, though usually for me the order went something like wings - neck - tail - front legs - back legs.
After I've built all the dragon's parts, I then connect them all together with the body. This way I can figure out just about how far apart I want the shoulders, and the space between the legs and between the tail and neck. If you built the body first, you might come up some nasty surprises if something is too big/small/shaped incorrectly for the design.
I've created a short page about building my green dragon, you can find it HERE.
Hope that helped.
--Anthony
I usually start with a color scheme or a gimmick. For the four big dragons, I had both. For example: For the blue dragon, I wanted a sea dragon with flippers and fins, and decided she should be blue and white (like a fish/whale/generic sea creature). For the Juvenile dragon, I had seen Travis Dickinson's Terra Dragon, and I had fallen in love with the teeth. So I started with the idea of building the dragon around the mouth design.
When I finally begin construction, I always start with the head. With the black dragon, I started with the hand, but that was more of an engineering test to see if it were possible and whether or not I was wasting my time. I built the head immediately after, and for all other creatures from then to now I've always built the head first. The size, shape, and color scheme of the head really dictates what the rest of the creature looks like.
I then work on building the limbs - neck, tail, front legs (if any), back legs, and wings or other extra limbs (if any). It doesn't really matter to me which I build first, though usually for me the order went something like wings - neck - tail - front legs - back legs.
After I've built all the dragon's parts, I then connect them all together with the body. This way I can figure out just about how far apart I want the shoulders, and the space between the legs and between the tail and neck. If you built the body first, you might come up some nasty surprises if something is too big/small/shaped incorrectly for the design.
I've created a short page about building my green dragon, you can find it HERE.
Hope that helped.
--Anthony
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Thanks, that helps alot, and its obvious that you know what it is you're doing, thanks.
Jason
P.S. Mods, you can close this topic if you so wish.....
Jason
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