I’ve been following this one, and wow!. Been trying to get the forms on “Mr. Dimples” to look as natural as these. exceptional sculpt.
Hope you don’t mind but I just Love Chimps and apes so much and I think I read you did this from Memory!!! so I pulled up some of my photos and Your Latest guy Stands up brilliantly to the real thing.
I just watched you recently Flying with Peter Jackson on the new Kong Special edition which looked like a lot of fun! and funny coz you all looked so different without your trademark beards. Anyway I guess there’s some deep conenction between Humans and apes and I think you captured a real moment with this latest pose.
Loving this site!
cheers!
craig.
Yup I see it Rick.
The coloration of he fur, the bottom lip and definitely the soulful looks in the eyes.
Speaking of which you’ve had some amazing players bring your creations to life .
I know everyone automatically thinks of David Naughton.
But man what an amazing job Kevin Peter Hall did.
The amount of soul behind those eyes really brought Harry to life.
I can see similar etchings here, in his brows and eyes.
Not that you need to hear it.
But I really like this direction.
For what its worth.
Cheers
Cesar Dacol Jr.
Aka, The Voodoo Monkey
Truely an amazing piece! I love Apes and this piece just became my background.
Wow, that’s some awesome work! Happy b’ day and may you have many more. I give you the best gift I can think of, 5 stars. 
Yeah man!
And fantastic hair work!
Talking about photorealism… Just gotta love your work.
This expression is nice.
He looks very sweet and simpathetic.
Soulful through the eyes.
Hairwork is great.
Well done.
~Brian
That hair work…that wouldn’t be made with a Nagel hair brush in Photoshop, would it?
Amazing work as always ,i wish one day after century or two to be near that good ,btw i just visited imdb - Happy Birthday man 
Your Ape is rock!!!
Thank you for it having a wonderful influence 30 years or more.
Please continue wonderful work.
Happy Birth Day Rick Baker!!!
Japanese Monster Maker
Shinichi Wakasa
Hi everyone and thanks for the birthday wishes. I usually ignore my birthday and let it pass unnoticed.Don’t think I have ever had so many Bday wishes.
KarimZ,the highlights are a bit strong on the eyes I wanted to make sure that they were extra wet looking I should actually add a little wet line on the lower lid.
Arturo,yes it’s definitely a lot of the different apes that I have done in the past combined.It’s a Baker ape after all.
Fishadder,interesting chimp photos that you have that light one on the right is really cool. Do you know anything about him? I wasn’t really going for a chimp with this guy just a nonspacific made up ape. It’s more gorilla than chimp, but colored much more like a chimp because they have much more fun" paint jobs". I really like the brow on the one second from the left on the bottom. Makes me want to change this guys brow.When I positiomed it into a sad pose I lost some of the bone structure .I’ll have to fix that.
I just turned on the TV the other day and saw myself killing Kong. Even I don’t recognize myself without the beard and with the hood and goggles on.
It was fun to do though.
Simon C, Yes it’s a variation of a Nagel brush. I learned a lot about making brushes in PS by dissecting what he has done.
Shinichi, How are things in Japan. A bunch of my anamatronic work is going there for an exhibit early next year I may go as well.
BlackCrane, I liked your birthday gift, I’ll take 5 stars anyday
Again thanks everyone
I hope that some day I get to have that many candles on my cake.
Happy Birthday Rick.
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Cheers
Cesar Dacol Jr.
Aka, The Voodoo Monkey
Better call the fire department that looks hazardous. Thanks Voodoomonkey,
where did you get that photo, I didn’t think that I owned a jacket like that.
It’s amazing what you can do in Photoshop
Copy and paste Tada! Instant make over.But seriously though, watch yourself when blowing out those candles.
Cheers
Cesar Dacol Jr.
Aka, The Voodoo Monkey
Happy Birthday Rick!!! Planet of the Apes made us what we are today (my band!!!) I’m so broke $$$$ but if you have a DVD coming, I’ll sale a guitar to get it!!!
GORILLA
Hey, happy birthday Rick!!! Mine is in about 3 weeks.
Keep rocking,
-Kris
Hi Rick and Happy Birthday!
I wanted to ask if you can explain me very quick how to set the displacement map generated from zbrush and open it in Modo. I hope I don’t take too much of your time.
Thanks for your time and have a good one!
Javier Loredo.
She’s a stunning brown chimp with a wonderful nature and lives at Twycross Zoo in the UK. I’ve never seen such a pale chimp and you can see lots more fantastic shots taken by the person who adopted her I think here :
The Zoo was famous for providing the Chimps for the Tea commercials way back which they thankfully don’t do now and it has lots of rescued and endangered apes of all kinds.
I realised you weren’t specifically going for chimp after I posted the pics because the nose is more gorilla so sorry bout that but I was most impressed by your skin detail which is amazing and really varied on chimps!
It looks terrific and I’m a huge fan of monkeys and rick baker…But it looks like a composite between the bone structure of a gorilla and a the coloring chimp. It looks awesome for a joe shmoe but lacks the Baker pinache and attention to detail especially in the specular. Stll looks great though!