Making Borderlands 3’s Giant Character Statues!
At this year’s E3, the Borderlands 3 booth stood out with six larger-than-life statues representing the games’ characters at 1.5x scale. We met up with our old friend Frank Ippolito–whose team at Thingergy built these statues–to get a behind-the-scenes look at how these mixed-media figures were fabricated. From foam milling to clay sculpting, fabric patterning to silicone casting, here’s how giant convention displays are made!
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Awesome work, great to see Frank on Tested again!
FRANK!!!!!
I would like to know more.
Spectacular work. Absolutely amazing mix of techniques. Congrats to the team.
at least Jhonsonribbin is trying to assimilate
I wonder what ever happened to these. Did they get dumpstered after E3?