40–49cm Dolls Arachne [nudity], yes more spiders :)

Before i made this post i noticed two other spider projects. Look forward to see how each one will evolve!
Think mine is a bit different but its also pretty early on in the project. Have to work out and refine the concept a good bit further before i start breaking things up for joints. Should give an idea where i'm going tho and hopefully a good start for a project journal...

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Thanks! Still tweaking the concept further, hopefully more updates soon...

 

Thanks so much! No big updates yet unfortunatly. Been looking into jointed hands and trying to make my own for her. They still need plenty of work but i like the segmented parts adding to the concept of Arachne (like another hint of her corruption).

 

Update on the body and a bit of quick posing

 

In researching this character it was cool to see how widespread these half-human half-spider creatures are in worldwide cultures. Wanted to do something with that so i made 3 masks sofar. Inspired a bit by greek, roman and egyptian style, that with a magnet can be attached. The masks match with the main eyes and hide the others.

Now as a shadow weaver she can influence the various cultures all over the world!




The masks i have sofar (still in rough detail)


Joints and everything is (finally) more or less done so its finally time to add more detail

 

Few updates to her face and masks. Still needs more work but with an added wig they will hopefully look pretty good and allow her to weave great myths all over the world With the masks her two larger main eyes line up and are still visible.

Her own face:


As Arachne:


As Jorōgumo:


As Neith:

 

Thanks! Yeah it will be interesting to see how everything comes together. Most parts are printed but i still have plenty of cleaning up to do. Did some quick testfitting. Without string or magnets so i only have a few quick pics.


Quick test with hair:

Mask and wig test:

 

Thanks! Cleaning up and sanding is going well, already busy stringing. Progress is going slow on that tho

 

Stringed with her "legs" attached. Plenty of tweaking to do but pretty happy with her look sofar.

 

Thanks! Yeah there is lots of room for creativity and different directions. Thats what makes it fun. Be sure to post yours here when you start sculpting, love to see others.

 

Thanks! Yeah thats definatly something i wanted as well. Tried to add some hints of former legs that merged into the spiders lower abdomen.

Current update, well she's currently my test subject for improving the joints and my resin prints in general. I'm still tweaking things but she can now stand! By using four arms and the end of her lower body (so i'm cheating a little bit here). But it looks good and it works both when leaning forward or in a more upright pose. For this to work i added suede to the shoulder joints. First time i used suede and it helped quite a bit. No miracles but a nice difference. But before i continue with that i decided to go further and also reprint her ribcage and chest pieces. They were really heavy and this time i hollowed them out a lot. For example her ribcage piece went from 106 grams to 39!
The suede also helps protecting the slightly softer 3d printed resin, preventing those very light but quite visible white scatches. To really prevent those i'm going add a 2k (car paint) mat coating and test if that is strong enough as a scratchproof surface. Can't wait to test that out. Otherwise ill reprint parts in a 50/50 mix of this resin and a very hard one.

 

Had to look up The Stalk, yeah cool character! Think i have seen her (but i didnt know the name) when looking for reference pics but she isn't based on it.. Although especially the eyes are pretty close. Now i want to read her story!
For my character i wanted less of a split between the human/spider parts. So the legs/arms start at the shoulders and continue on her back. A few more pics below. She will be reprinted in scratch proof resin with a few small tweaks mostly to improve the joints.

 

With lots of arms&hands plus a few face masks i hope so! While measuring everything for her outfit i had her posing with all the arms like a Hindu goddess, looked really cool

Yes i plan to and its close but they do fit without running into each other

 

Resione Anti impact. Its more difficult to print/work with (compared to elegoo abs like for example) but once printed it seems really impressive sofar.

 

A few outside pics:

 

Thanks! Yeah it was quite tricky to make it all fit really closely to her face (and also have room for a little magnet) but it worked out prety good.

 

Update, tweaked some joints a bit and added some color








Still some stuff to do but slowly getting there

 

Thanks! Made an alternate lowerbody. It still ends in a point but it has an almost flat piece to stand on. Its a bit cheating but now she is super easy to stand now and i kinda like that Think i will probably end up with another that is a mix of the two (and maybe add a weight at the bottom to help a bit more.

 

Thx! Hmmm i played Diablo 3 but cant remember her. She from an expansion maybe? Below a few more outside pics and a second one i'm making out of spare parts in bone yellow.

 

Thx i looked it up, guess i forgot And great concept artwork thx for sharing!

 

Second one made from spare and a few extra printed parts, made to pose upside down

 

Thanks! Yeah, and its a pitfall i still regularly make. Get an idea and enthusiastically jump in and do it. Its not bad in all cases but sometimes its good to really develop a character, find the why and the how. Probably a risk of current tools and mindset, they invite to quickly start sculpting. Sometimes the paper and pencil start is still very helpfull!

 

Thats ok Thanks so much!

 

Thanks! This was quite a challenge but doing my version of a half human/half spider creature was on my list for a long time!

 

Thanks! Yeah really fun project!

 

Thanks!

 

Thanks! Only a few small updates. I added tabs and support for an extra string to the lower arms. The tabs allow some "locking" to help with standing poses. Not a huge issue so my existing spider demons are fine but I plan to print another in 1/4 scale one with these new updates. At this scale she is should be a bit more mobile and easier to bring along... plus only a fraction of the resin cost of the bigger one