I was asked to recreate the sculptures for the restoration a 1913 Renault Freia chocolate truck. The 3D models have been 3D printed and then cast into brass. The challenge of the project is the limited information in the contemporary photos. The big detail is that, it´s a bird, and the small detail we can assume are feathers, but the mid-level detail was a mystery. To figure out the forms, I drew out the neck feathers at real scale to work out how they were shaped and built the mid-level detail from those analyses.
Castings finished now the sculptures are on the truck.
2021 Best in Hall, Oslo motor show, 2022 Jurys Favorit, Stavanger Motorama.
Maya, Mudbox
Pencil
maya, mudbox
Maya, Mudbox
Maya
I was asked to do a small commemorative plaque to be cast and give to people who have helped on the project, I have never done a relief sculpture before, so a new set of constraints to solve for. Any surface that was perpendicular to the picture plane needs to taper and be extend all the way back. I had 3 millimeters to work with, so I had to create the illusion of greater depth.
I was asked to recreate the VIN plaque for a 1906 Renault, I built a displacement in photoshop and after a lot of iterations met all the parameters. Now its off for 3D printing and casting.