Granite Bear - Indomitable Warrior Bear

[orsogranito]

Hi friens!

I'm working at new MotU Custom... his name is Granite Bear... (my nickname on He-man.org; in IT Orsogranito as GraniteBear)...

Granite Bear is a member of an ancient race of Warriors Bears that lives in the remotest mountains of Eternia. These warriors are bitter enemies of Icer's kingdom of ice.
Granite Bear is a good friend of Barkskin (another my old custom), who live the old forest on the slopes of the remotest mountains.
The rest of bio is also under construction.

I think that the hardest thing to do on this custom, is build a good armor on the body... as seen on The Golden Compass film.

I used Gygor body and I sculpted the head. (I recovered Gygor teeth).

After I cut (shortned) the arms of ex-ape.

Tomorrow I will scuplting new hands and feet with "important" claws as Wolverine.

This is a first picture of work in progres.





What do you think at this time?

[Zargon]

Very cool, can't wait to see more.

[masterenglish]

Have you seen the bear character in the Power & honor book? Its armor is wicked, I would really like to see it into figure form. Good luck with your custom, looks good so far.

[Tyke]

Awesome idea!

I instantly thought you should make another and paint him red! RED BEAST to hang out with Demo-Man from the early concept drawings!

[Mistico]

Looks good so far. The head is excellent!

[Dragonblaster]

That looks VERY promising! Can't wait top see your progress

[DO4M]

unexpected but great idea to reuse the Gygor buck! Can't wait to see this project complete!

[iron_pride]

Oh this looks liek it will be very cool for sure....

[FakeEyes22]

Okay. That's a brilliant idea. I never would have thought of that body working for anything that isn't gorilla-like. Looks great.

[michaelAschamp]

Really awsome Idea, would have never thought of that! The head sculpt looks great, can't wait to see how the arms and claws turn out! Over all I would love to see this Giant warrior come to life! Thus far (GREAT WORK)!

[Lay Ze-Man]

Awesome idea!

I instantly thought you should make another and paint him red! RED BEAST to hang out with Demo-Man from the early concept drawings!

My first thought exactly, because a faux-fur flocked Gygor buck colored red with new head as Mark Taylor's Red Beast is exactly what I've been wanting them to make for a while!!

[Beastmaster]

Great dude! How did you sculpt the head?

[orsogranito]

Thanks to everyone!

As soon as possible I will post new pictures of wip!

[orsogranito]

This is a new image. The claws are sculpted to 80% , but I'm not sure to leave them so long. Is an experiment.

What do you think? Claws long as in image or a little shorter?

[Zargon]

Claw length looks fine to me as long as they are stable.

[Hoffrod]

I think you could go half that length and still have the desired look. These look borderline like those fingernails from the wrong side of town hoochies...

[Beastmaster]

Yeah, I'd go with shorter, more realistic claws. What material do you use for sculpting?

[orsogranito]

Yeah, I'd go with shorter, more realistic claws. What material do you use for sculpting?

Ok.

I usually use Milliput Silver-Gray.

[AREZ]

That Bear looks awesome so far and I can't wait to se the final version!

[Beastmaster]

That Bear looks awesome so far and I can wait to se the final version!

You can? I'm not that patient!

[Dragonblaster]

Awesomesauce! This is going to be great!
I'd go with a bit shorter claws aswell though

[Bigman]

Beautiful! Great sculpting! Are you using epoxy putty?

[orsogranito]

Beautiful! Great sculpting! Are you using epoxy putty?

Milliput Silver/Gray.

I'm using a lot of putty and a lot of time in this custom, because the bear is very great; actually I'm modeling large parts of armor...

and then...I'm building two customs at the same time.

[orsogranito]

New wip picture:



What do you think?

[Stirner]

I think this is going to be your masterwork...