Applied Animation: The Model P.3

In the third lesson of the 3D model making we were told that we would be making moulds of our armature so that we could make a foam models as well. How we did this was actually quite simple because all we had to do was place a layer of clay under neath the plasticine model and cut around the model and then take out the clay outline and place the plasticine model inside the clay. After that we then got more clay to make walls round the model  which would create a box round it, we did this because we were going to pour plaster into the box to make one side of the mould.

  we had to do this very carefully because the plaster could break the clay and go everywhere (this did actually happen to someone because they didn't build a thin enough wall round the armature). After the plaster dried we took the clay of and carefully removed the armature from the hard plaster, when you took the armature out it left a nice mould of the character in the plaster but it was only one half of the armature so we had the redo the procedure again but face the plasticine model the other way so that we could get the other half of the mould.