Frankenstein's Monster — photoreal character sculpt.
A personal piece, and the one I point to when someone asks how close I can work. A creature stitched together from parts that never belonged to each other — my job was making that read as one face. Sculpted in ZBrush alongside my shotsculpting at Framestore London. Fan sculpt, no affiliation with Universal Pictures.
- Framestore London · Tom & Jerry · The Little Mermaid
- IMDb production credits
- ZBrush · personal sculpt, 2023
What this has to do with Framestore
I was shotsculpting at Framestore London on Tom & Jerry (Warner Bros., 2021) and The Little Mermaid (Disney, 2023) around the time I made this. I cannot show you frames from either. So this is the next best thing — the same restraint and the same anatomy, with no brief telling me where to stop.
The problem was skin
Suture lines where two different skin tones meet. Aged hands and an aged face against a forehead left unnaturally smooth — the giveaway that this thing was assembled. Every pore and wrinkle hand-sculpted before baking down to displacement. A hard key from above right drops the eye sockets into shadow and still keeps the brow and jaw.
The story in the gallery
Alongside the hero renders and the clay and wireframe passes, there are compositions with parental figures. That was the part of the story I found more disturbing than the stitching — a creature that never asked to exist, standing next to whoever made it.
Project gallery
More views, clay renders and material passes.
