Question: Armature wooden base boiling and separation from the sculpt
Hi everyone, I am new to sculpting. In fact, I am still learning the theories and best practices. I have been watching several sculpting tutorial videos in youtube. What I get so far, when sculpting full human superhero characters with various poses, I think I better do it with an armature such as: steel wire and wooden base. But there are some knowledge I am still searching currently.
1. When using a wire armature, it will tied strongly to the wooden base. So it makes the final sculpt sticks strongly with the wooden base. When the bake time comes, do you bake the wooden base with the sculpt? The problem is that I am planning to boil my sculpey sculpt (I dont have oven at my flat), and wood (as the base) tends to be broken in water. Do you have any suggestion on boiling sculpey sculpt with the armature wood base?
2. I really would like to make my own custom sculpted base (not a standard wooden base). So far I have browsed about sculpting tutorial videos with armature bases, they all stick their armatures to wooden base. How can the sculpt get separated from the wooden base if the wire is strongly tied to the wooden base? How can the sculpt with armature be attached to another base? I cannot find a tutorial video on how to separate the sculpt from the wooden base. All videos are about how to create and use armature, and not to separate.
Thank you very much for viewing. Looking forward to your advises.
Last edited by yugdablos; 05-20-2016 at 10:42 PM.
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