Giant Eddie Murphy head done in Zbrush

[Jim McPherson]

Here's an movie advertising job we did at Gentle Giant.

Scott Spencer helped me with this mesh.
I had to line it up to reference pictures and to the poster using Zbrush perspective. Note the ear and nose.

The obj was printed out on our Eden Printer, then molded and cast, and cleaned up.
Mireya Romo-Bowen painted the Paint Master.


A company called Daniel's Woodland milled the head in hard foam,assembled it, hard coated it, and built a trailer for it.
http://www.danielswoodland.com


Javier Soto had one day (!!!) to paint the 15 foot head.



Then the head went to Paramount Studios.

Then it's off on a road trip to other appearances ending up at Times Square 4th of July weekend.



video at Paramount
http://www.etonline.com/news/2008/06/62682/index.html

press release
http://www.streetinsider.com/Press+R...p/3751282.html

Eddie Head on the Highway
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu...deoID=36382369

Much thanks to Gentle Giant.

Jim McPherson
www.jimmcpherson.com

[alexleia]

Jim ,
amazing and really BIG work!
congratulations and thanks for share

Alex Oliver

[RockinAkin]

Hahaha... great job!

Those last two shots of the giant head driving along are hilarious.

[splatfx]

That's great Jim!

[davide]

Excellent work, Jim!

[sunhutzu]

FRIGGN AWESOME. Great work dude.

[Frenchy Pilou]

...head work!

[Sebcesoir]

Haha excellent!

[Jason Belec]

Oh come on!

Not only sculpting, but now your dumping out larger than life toys!!???!!!

I see no end in sight, it's just such a terrible shame....

Oh what a wonderful play facility you guys enjoy on a daily basis.

I am getting so envious I may have to do something drastic, hhmmmmm I know...

[mxdirector]

great work.

thats some ego boast to have a giant version of your head carted around america.

[MIGUEL GRANADOS]

ha ha great work Jim.
I saw the model you print, for the gnomon workshop tutorial
Character Modelling for Production.
The level of details are amazing.

[nickz]

This thing is scary, big, and very cool all at the same time. It must be a trip to see your work printed so large!

Wow! Very cool work! - NickZ.

[Ls3D]

Wow that was cool! Quite surreal to see that thing on the road. Roxanne...

-Shea

[brettSinclair]

Thats awesome! Eddie is one of my all time favourite stand up comedians.
Great likeness. And a monstrous size! Imagine eddie taking a bite out of the stay pufft marshmallow guy. haha.

[Wozrush]

Incredible likeness