50–65cm Dolls Sculpting Coepta Process

I thought it would be fun to toss up the pictures of my sculpting process for Coepta. I had so much fun learning to sculpt using Polaris and Alt Polaris files from Thingiverse as a base, I thought "what if... I started from scratch......" and this project began, lol. It's been so fun!

Humble beginnings:


Then she started reminding me of someone I know, which was a little weird. I didn't mean to make them:




After some more work she now looks completely different from my concept, but also I like her a lot so I'm gonna go with it, lol:




Then the body next, I still can't decide if I should keep it a one piece or figure out how to separate it into 2:



Tried following a tutorial for the hand and accidentally made this abomination:



An entire day later and it miraculously looks like a hand!



And that's all my progress so far Once I finish up the arms I'm moving on to the legs. Then I'll need to hollow her out and try a test print! The hollowing process is a bit intimidating though, lol. Better not get ahead of myself.

 

i finally made it to a stage where i could test printv at 24cm and ran into some troubles.




still getting used to the 3D printer, but slowly she started coming together



i had to make my own s-hooks because she's so tiny, i figured copper jewelry wire would be too soft, so I intended to use some stainless steel chainmail links. they were waaay too stiff though, so i compromised with bronze chainmail rings. Still hold up better than copper, and as a bonus I didn't need to buy anything new.



and finally my first test print is complete. at this size her eyes are too tiny to make separate, but i plan to when i print her bigger.




it's really exciting to see her come together. going forward i think I'm going to tweek her hands and feet a bit and try to figure out why her legs are bowing.

 

Thank you! Yes, the learning curve was high with the zspheres, but in the end it worked pretty good, lol.

 

It took a lot of tries but I'm finally happier with her limbs. The mobility joint on the thigh is too shallow, so I need to fix that up, but otherwise I'm pretty happy with how she's turning out.

Might be time to bump her up to a bigger size soon!

 

Thank you! Versa was made by altering files from Thingiverse as a base so I didn't feel right putting her up here. I do love her though, she started this whole adventure lol. Faces are definitely the most fun to sculpt.

 

Been working on Coepta again lately. Decided to print her big in filament to see how that goes. I'm loving the silver!



Gunna have to reprint a few things both to test out new changes on the stls but also because I've learned so much printing her that her legs are a much higher print quality than her arms, lol.

 

Thank you! I do really love the colors lol, the glamorous robot vibes are too fun.

 

Ah, all my photos are broken

Well let's see if this one works:

I printed her at about 34cm, which is the biggest I could go on my little resin printer. The skin tone ended up way more grey than I wanted, but it's fun seeing her look a bit more human.

 

Thank you! I do keep forgetting the size thing, lol, I upload from my phone and it always defaults to humongous.

Thank you! I really wanted her to have a soft pleasant look

Thank you! That's true, it does photograph a lot nicer than in person I think, sometimes in person it skews a little purple lol. Ah well, it's all a learning process.