Design & Fabrication

Imagining Characters

The beginning of the model making journey starts with a good design idea and that process starts with the imagination. I usally start with a good concept of my character or model that I will be designing, what is the story behind the design, this guides the process in its creation and make the final character or model feel more real

The design process of any miniature or model is very important and varies greatly from project to project, each model or miniature has it own set of requirements and such the conceptual process may change with each project I work on.

Building Tiny Worlds

Knowing when to Stop

Once I have a concept in mind I can begin the design process and take what I imagined this character, scene or object to be and determine what it may look like in the real world, then begin the process of imagining it in real life taking it from a just a concept to a real thing. After that it goes to fabricating the parts I would need to achieve the look and style I am going for in the final design.

Its been a long journey by this point, and a lot of thought design and fabrication has gone into building this tiny worlds, but in the end if done well, they will tell an interesting and unique story. Its so exciting at this stage when everything ou have worked on so hard and for so long is starting to come together into a thing that was only just an imaginary part of your mind not too long ago.

Like most artists their work is never finished there is always more time that can be put into a project into design, its never quite finished and sometimes you just run out of time, so knowing when to stop, when what your working on has reached a level its telling the story properly and only you can know that for sure.

Then the journey starts again all anew…