I can get torsos down well enough for now, but limbs are bugging me.
Anyone have have any tips?
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Most of the time limbs donāt need to be completely custom. Maybe try taking inspiration from other builders. Keep them fitting the style too. Try to keep them somewhat preportional. I canāt say much more than that. Hope it helps.
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Seriously though, try out designs you see on other MOCs, see how things work. Eventually youāll be familiar enough with everything that youāll start to synthesise your own ideas. Just remember to credit every time!
Though if you look at my particular style, more often than not I still donāt use custom limbs. Theyāre not the be all and end all. Just depends on the build style you have.
And as rota lorem says, proportions are key. Whenever Iām building I tend to stop and stand up and look myself over to make sure the proportions roughly work. Like how far down the leg should the fingers end, that sort of thing.
Of course, if youāre carrying a few more pounds than you should like me, it doesnāt āquiteā work so well. And then thereās the fact that these are basically action figures, who donāt have accurately human proportions. Check out any superhero action figure or similar and compare them to a real human being and youāll see theyāre not quite the same shape.
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My kind of advice.
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I just use CCBS. They work well, unless youāre making a really big guy that is.
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My problem with using bone pieces is that I donāt have any tire pieces to fill out the natural gaps in the pieces.
Most moc with complex limbs use discontinued parts to give it a āslikā bulk.
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Thatās annoying, i donāt have those pieces, so itās tough.
As for on topic, look at how others do it. Itās alot faster than teaching yourself.
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Itās not that big of a problem to have, yāknow? The tires help, but they arenāt necessary.
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If you donāt care about elbow articulation as much just use some of the larger CCBS pieces as those have better connection points for at least somewhat custom limbs. Tires should also be used sparingly on some joints or anywhere near hands and feet as it severely limits articulation.
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A minimal technic base with good amounts of connection points is good. Then you could add armor on easily for detail.
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Know for what purpose you want limbs to be custom, before building. For a lot of mine, itās because there arenāt CCBS bones in the lengths that I want. Another reason I run into a lot is because I want to use a certain armor placement that I canāt use on a simple prefab limb.
This is a good way to go about it.
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Iām working on a design for a MOC that has regular CCBS as the bones, I guess, and Iām using system around it. Heās supposed to have a blocky shape, so Iām not sure if it will help in your case, but maybe you could try something similar to that?
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Hide things under like floating shoulder pauldrons.
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bulk out an already existing limb
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donāt stick to humanoid shapes
ā¦ Donāt take my advice Iām terrible at limbs
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