Frosthaven Summons: Shadow Beast

Here's a model that I made to proxy for Frosthaven's Shadow Beast Summonable (artwork at https://github.com/any2cards/frosthaven/blob/master/images/art/frosthaven/characters/summons/fh-summon-shadow-beast-front.png)!  Knowing that the fingers were going to be “tip down” which is a classically difficult orientation for printing, I made sure that this guy had big beefy claws and they printed great!

I worked to minimize the supports that would be required by the swirly details, so the only spots that need supports are the obvious ones: the claws and the horns.  I added a contact point to the right arm to get PrusaSlicer to connect the tree under its right hand to the tree under the right horn so that the stress of removing it from the build plate would be distributed throughout the support tree instead of going into those fingers exclusively.

Figuring out how to paint this guy was a challenge!  I mean, its art is swirly black lines and shadows.  I actually painted up a bunch of them and I felt like this one struck the best balance between being shadowy and still having details that are visible on the table.  To do this one, I did my usual Slapchop shading pass, then went over it all with “Grim Black” speedpaint so pretty much undid my initial shading work.  Then I dry-brushed white over it to bring up those high points and did some final touch-up work with Grim Black to deepen some of the crevices where I went too heavy with the dry-brushing.  Finally, I did used a brush to put some white on the eyes and then used magenta Ghost Tint over it, although it's not really as bright as I'd've liked.

As always, the .blend file and pre-supported .3mf (including the one that I used to print this on my Prusa MK3, although the support points should work for SLA printers) for this model are available to my patrons at https://patreon.com/VirtuallyJason. If you appreciate my work and have a few dollars to spare each month, please consider joining!