Panda Design

Started by Graham Lee, February 08, 2015, 10:51:09 PM

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Graham Lee

For the past few months, well the geo play thread started early Oct I have been having a play with a panda design. One or two were just OK, nothing I was truly happy with.
The criteria was the head had to be made with a geo and would appear on my up coming geo DVD.
Had another play tonight and I think we had the lightbulb moment and have one that I'm pretty pleased with.


This panda I taught at the Leeds event back in March 2014, it uses 350's for the head and body.
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#1
These two panda's were made the week before Leeds when I was coming up with the panda design above.
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Kenny

#2
That's a good panda Graham, I wonder if i could replace the Geo with a heart and get the same effect!! I have no Geo's!! :)
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Graham Lee

#3
Quote from: "Kenny"I wonder if i could replace the Geo with a heart and get the same effect!! I have no Geo's!! :)
There are no geo's in this panda design Kenny, the body and head are all 350's
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#4
I saw a nice easy panda on facebook by Jeanine von Essen and decided to have a play, Jeanine's was made with a 350 I believe and I started off with a 5" round.

This was a pretty poor effort compared to Jeanine's, this is her facebook page to view the original, <!-- m -->https://www.facebook.com/HeyBalloonLady<!-- m -->
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I quickly had another go after effort one,
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#6
I made these all yesterday, I think 4 variations in all. These two are the same, I was trying for the sit down look.
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#7
Another variation.
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I had another play with a panda design yesterday.
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nklaw

#9
I bought e-file from David Brenion some time ago and learnt this design :)

Graham Lee

#10
Quote from: "nklaw"I bought e-file from David Brenion some time ago and learnt this design :)
That has given me another idea, thanks.
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#11
I remember David placing the ears on after with that design, there was a slack 260 which fitted under the muzzle.
So I changed the way I had the ears on the panda and this made the ears higher on the design.

I also made some new eyes, the ones with the white looked racoon like to me.
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nklaw

#12
This latest Panda definitely looks better than the previous , and the eyes are so much alive. Like !

nailwiz

#13
Mee too!!!!

Graham Lee

#14
I was making a couple of Panda's at the millennium jam, when I get to resize them on that thread then I will add here as well.
Today I made another version, it needs a little tweaking here and there which I will have a play with tomorrow.
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