Forget Cocaine Bear, I made Zombie Bear

hey folks my name is Adam and I like to make tiny nerdy things and as you may have guessed from the title I made a zombie bear now why did I make a zombie bear I don't know why not now the first step in making any good zombie bear is to make its Bare Bones first and by bear I don't mean skinless and meatless but the actual or sign bones that make up the structure of the body which I suppose in this context are also bare since I haven't added the skin yet that comes later but for now I'm making my bare bones out of aluminum wire since this will eventually become a polar bear and he'll be standing in snow so I need his bones to be rust proof I found a photo of a grizzly bear skeleton on the internet that I printed to scale and I can use to now Bend some wire into the appropriate shape for the various limbs so once I've got a front and back pair of legs I can attach them to a spine with some teeny tiny Armature wire and glue it's also worth holding on to the reference photo until you're done since it can be hard to understand how legs work and sometimes they get attached backwards hey wait a minute ah fortunately a little twisting of the hip bones and you can fix that problem and move on I'll mount my bear on the wood blocks that I can get the post figured out now I know I want the zombier to be standing on three legs while swiping with a front pot so I'll use an additional block of wood to lift them up so I can put a rock under him eventually once I've got the post figured out I can get started bulking up the body which I'd normally do with lots of foil first to keep the amount of clay used to a minimum however I don't know how much battle damage this zombie is going to be rocking so I'll only use a little bit of foil so that I can cut away as much clay as I need later otherwise it's time to start heaping that Clay on as I saw off in the case when I'm building a big bulky body I'm not going to be overly concerned by the anatomical accuracy of anything at this point since I can always remove stuff later the initial stage is just about getting Clay on the figure in kind of the right places I was a bit stumped trying to figure out what size I was going for it since I was torn between the sickly skinny zombie bear with thin skin draped over a malnourished body or the full fat big bellied ready for hibernation bear in the end I figured that when it comes to human zombies there always seems to be an assortment of body types across all the sizes so why not go big and lovable eventually I've got enough of a base built up that I can start to refine the shape so once I've smoothed all the seams out I can attach an ice long neck with a pointy face on top now if you're looking at this wondering how I'm going to justify starting with a grizzly bear skeleton and ending up with a polar bear body then I recommend you look up something called The Growler bear it turns out the true danger of climate change is the migration of polar bear South in search of food where they're mating with grizzly bears and creating a super bear with the best of both worlds so if anything this is my most scientifically accurate model yet at this point I'll start to get started on the start of the face by separating the upper and lower jaw and hollowing out the mouth before building up the smaller details of his face this isn't my first time building a bear and the last time I found it hard to figure out the proper shape and proportion of its nose to get around that this time I'm just gonna not make the nose at all and leave his skull exposed because zombies you know foreign the details and stages starting with a larger picture before working my way down into finer and finer details which means I'll be hopping all over the body as I'm shaping it I'm not entirely sure how much detail I need to worry about on a surface level since I'm planning to cover this bear in the thick fur so spending hours refining the muscle only to hide it in the fur feels like a bit of a waste of time once I've got my general body shape figured out I can get started on the feet or the pause I guess which are pretty bog standard five tote Affairs however it's at this point that I'll start to zombify this otherwise normal looking bear the first step in making gnarly open wounds is removing a decent amount of clay to surface level then sharpening the edges so there's an obvious separation between the skin and the muscle layer beneath next I'll need to add some bones which means I'll need to make them I know I'm gonna need lots of bones and teeth in the claws so I figured I could just do it all at once and pick and choose what I want for each injury later for instance I always love an exposed rib cage so I'll make a bunch of flat worms of clay then bend them slightly until they're nicely rib cage curved a bunch of little wormy dealies will be my various finger bones and some slightly larger lumps will be well slightly larger bones I'll then make a bunch of large hooked claws for each of the 20 toes as they've been baked in the oven to cure the clay I can take my knife to him to roughen them up a bit and add a bit of surface damage then I can start to stick them in place one paw perfected I can get to work on the rest of the body adding loads of big and small battle wounds to really gross this guy up the left arm will be doing a big swipe so I'll leave the Paw mostly intact but I'll cut away the skin on the arm to expose the terrifying bare muscle beneath I wanted the arm to be somewhat anatomically accurate so I Googled muscly bear and after a couple unexpected leather related search results I found some great reference photos of a bear's musculature which I tried to recreate on the arm I've got some of those big bones I made earlier waiting to get used and I figured one of the back legs would be ideal for this so we'll mark out a big section on the hind leg to remove the surface layer so that I can form a nice pocket to fit my exposed bone neatly into then some striation for the muscles on the sides and a good amount of trypophobia inducing dot work to add a little extra detail on the other side I wanted to give my zombie a massive open wound exposing the vacant chest cavity so I'll carve away a huge amount of the clay and then add plenty of the random gnarly texturing before jamming up bunch of vertebrae into the top we'll then carve away a bit of the muscle to make way from my ribs which I'll just kind of jam into place now they ended up being a bit smaller than I ended up needing but rather than remake them I'll just break away the tips and say they were always the correct size they just broke off at some point with the body mostly finished then I can get back to the face and start refining the details there I'll add his eyeballs to some pre-poked eyeball divots then build up the area around the right eye while leaving the left eye uncovered since I want that part of the skull to be fully exposed [Music] to make his mouth or lay down a little clay around his bottom lip which is still very much intact then Jam some big teeth into his upper jaw and blend them in since there won't be any skin to separate the skull from the teeth it's tempting to give this bear a bunch of scary pointy teeth but in reality a bear has molar similar to ours since they eat plenty of non-meat meals as well all then do pretty much the same thing to the bottom jaw with the front row of canines and a back row of molars then stick a tongue in place and add a little bit of extra tendon connecting the top and bottom jaw foreign ly a couple years will hopefully make this bear look a little less silly now his face is still a little bit thin compared to the rest of his body but my thinking is that once I add the fur it'll bulk out the face a bit more and help bring a bit of uniformity to his shape for a little added detail I'll poke and fill some divots with little Blobs of clay to give my zombie lots of little moldy pustules before finally attaching his little bear tail on the back end and with that in place that's my zombie finished and ready for a coat of primer now I know a polar bear's fur appears white but their skin is actually black so I'm going to paint his entire body black of course there's no way that I'm going to be able to add fur thick enough to cover that black underneath so I'm going to add the black via a thin wash in what will hopefully be a really dark gray instead we'll then touch up all the gnarly muscly bits with a red wash not worrying too much about painting Outside the Lines since I'm gonna be coming back with a lighter gray top coat which I'll sponge aggressively over the black body with the intention of toning down the black and creating a bit of sheeting and gradient while the black skin is probably more accurate I think I can get away with my undead zombie bear having a slightly lighter shade of skin due to the fact that it's dead and it's not real and I wanted to so I did I'll then go over the bloody bits with the brown wash to significantly reduce the vibrancy and to make the battle damage look a little more worn then I can repaint all the teeth and bones with a white base coat so they don't blend in with the muscle and bloody whatever bits that surround them while I'm waiting for the bone weight to dry I'll touch up each of the pustules with a pustule green then go back to my bones and give them all a sepia wash to make them look a little less blindingly White foreign will get a very dark brown once over and I can paint the Paw pitch black before adding a red to White gradient on the exposed eyeball in the skull last but not least I'll give the battle wounds a coat of gloss varnish to make them nice and gooey and without my naked Battle Bear is finished which means it's time to add a fluffy fur coat yeah this little guy is a static grass box and I've used him a few times before to add static grass to a model to make fake fur in fact I've used this very grass here which is sort of a gross off-white yellow color that I think would be a perfect fit for a well-worn Undead crawler bear I'll give my bear a coating of thinned out PVA glue wherever I want the grass fur to stick then I can turn on my box and hover the bear over the top the Box statically charges the grass and launches it into the air where it sticks to my bear providing a not too thick but not too thin coat of static grass turned polar bear fur the static grass sticks perpendicularly to the surface so a gentle poking with my finger will flatten it down a smidge so it's not quite so pointy then I can use a brush and some blasts of air from my compressor to remove any of the non-glued fur to expose the red wounds underneath all I need to do then is apply a couple coats of red around the edges of the wounds to help blend the seams in and make it all look a bit more natural a little flick of red paint will add some spattering of strawberry jam and my Growler zombier is all but finished which means all that's left to do is give him something to stand on originally I had planned on a cage with a chain around the bear's neck but that made me think of those circus bears and I got bummed out so instead I'm gonna go with a snowy polar base and a rock to stand on the old tried and true I know how tall my rock needs to be by comparing it to the block of wood the bear is standing on so once I've cut it to size and given it a more Rocky looking look I'll bash it with an actual rock to give it some rocky texturing before gluing it to my base to Prime The Rock and protect the foam I'll give the entire base a coat of black paint and Mod Podge I'll then follow this up with a base coat of gray followed by a series of progressively lighter dry brushes to highlight the details on the Rock I also bashed the base up a bit with a rock as well because I planned on leaving that as exposed rock in the snow but in the end I ended up covering it all up anyways to make mice know I'm going to make some snow white hole filler with a bit of mod podge the whole filler will be my snow base and the Mod Podge will help the whole filler adhere to the painted foam and provide a bit more strength as it cures I'll just apply this all willy-nilly over the gray base and onto the Rock and once I've got a nice even coverage I can press my bear down into place I'll push a bit of snow up onto the bear's feet legs and outstretched arm then using a little pipette I can dribble a few drops of freshly squeezed strawberry jam into the snow letting it spread out and stain the white and with that we are all done here and onto the Glamor Shots oh [Music] as always a huge thank you to the patronizers of patreon and a special hey how are you to my newest patrons Dan WC lady face and thunderbeard Jeremy Port Goofy ah Danny Garland handbug robly Welliver Stephen Henry crazy muggle mum Maggie Hood Andrew bass mashford and blashford Rebecca Spitzer Oleander at heart Jack and Mimi Eric Miller Dexter Murphy's Adrian skicitano Starry Night dreams uzor horror Shadow step O2 and Maddie you are the fluffy fur that keeps this animated corpse of a channel running if you're upset about the lack of bear puns then I am sorry but I barely gave it any thought however if you bear with me I'll bring the full might of my punts to Bear next time for you to Bear witness to um bear bear bear otherwise we'll uh see you next time cheers [Music] beautiful [Music]

Channel: North of the Border

Views: 1,017,251

Keywords: forget cocaine bear i made zombie bear, cocaine bear, zombie bear, grolar bear, zombie, monster, beast, sculpture, clay, how to add fur, fur sculpture, zombie sculpture, north of the border

Id: xDIV8y6MJzI

Length: 13min 32sec (812 seconds)

Published: Fri May 26 2023