In search for a different analogue technique, I paid a visit to a contemporary jewellery design studio, to test wax working methods on a small scale sculpting. The wax modeller Sarkis showed me how to carve and shape a piece of wax into delicate components.
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| Carving wax, tools and techniques |
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| Sculpting small components out of wax |
This was very much the opposite world to architecture, where everything is on such a micro scale and where the 1 millimetre really does make a difference. Z-Brush workflow has many similarities with this process as they both do not use an internal armature for structural consistency, as we had in case of the clay. However with wax modelling the heat can be a big factor when it comes to altering the geometry, attaching or detaching certain compounds to the main block. In this sense, the Z-Brush geometry appears to be very abstract, very far from the real world conditions of heath, electromagnetism and other forces.
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