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SCP-173 Redesign

I saw a lot of redesigned SCP-173s floating around, and thought it'd be fun to a crack at it myself.

One thing I tried to avert was a trend I saw of making the thing too....mobile-looking? It was supposed to be an abstract sculpture that moves around when you're not looking at it, and the creepiness comes from noticing that something moves when it obviously isn't designed to move. I felt a lot of the other designs I saw were giving it too organic a form, like it was obviously meant to be mobile, so the thought of it moving around would've been less jarring to me. I gave it a solid base with no legs.

This was my first time learning how to paint textures in Blender to make the painted areas on the face, all other parts were sculpted except for the rebar, which was just kind of modeled normally, twisted around, and re-meshed together.

I thought about trying to 3D-print the model without the rebar structure and just stringing the pieces together with wire. Haven't got around to that yet, but it's still a potential future project.

Blender (2022)

Blender (2022)

I thought the rebar would make for an excellently creepy sort of sewn-shut/toothy mouth look.

I thought the rebar would make for an excellently creepy sort of sewn-shut/toothy mouth look.

It's poseable! It's bendy! It's going to snap your neck!

It's poseable! It's bendy! It's going to snap your neck!

Recreation of the pose from the original image.

Recreation of the pose from the original image.

Unlit render, various poses/angles.

Unlit render, various poses/angles.

Untextured model.

Untextured model.