Marc Sokpolie

I posted about Bigfoot’s mechanism before, and how it evolved from the blue Chimp Skull to the form it has now, and I’ve told people about it and showed them pictures. Usually the first question that arises is ‘Will you give it a skin?’ and the answer is ‘yes’, soon after I finish the mechanics. The skin will be cast in a negative mold that I need to make.

I designed the skin to wrap perfectly around the bigfoot skull. No air pockets between them. with sections of ‘fat’ like humans have.

I sculpted the skin digitally, and it was far too big to print on my machine.

I got in contact with Mr. Dick Potharst and his awesome machines at Multi3dprint in Haarlem, where I buy my 3d printers and all the necessary 3D printing gear. it had to be divided into 4 parts and each part took around three days of nonstop printing. I applied filler and a basecoat to straighten out the jagged edges you get while 3d printing.

Then I sanded out what was left of the jaggies, added more filler and basecoat, until it got the smoothness I wanted.

So that’s the positive original. It will be used to make a mold in which I will cast the soft skin material. This Skin is really special, or it will be. I have some test patches of it. It is a composite structure with several layers. With varying epidermal thickness, again like humans have. Because the skin in your neck creases in a different way than the skin around your eyes.

And what makes it absolutely stunning and natural is the fact that I don’t need to sculpt wrinkles. The wrinkles will just ‘happen’ as a result of Bigfoot’s movement.