Kingdom Death, Street Fighter & More! Meet Miniature Sculptor Hector Moran | Interview
May 4, 2021 by avernos
Gerry gets to talk to the talented digital sculptor, Hector Moran (@sculptorhec). He has worked on massive projects like Kingdom Death by Adam Poots plus Street Fighter by AngryJoe and Jasco Games.
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We delve into Moran's history in the industry and some of the different games he's worked on. We'll get a look at the work on Kingdom Death, Relic Knights, Mierce Miniatures, Dragon Prince, Street Fighter and the upcoming Mortal Kombat Miniatures Game!
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This guy is a legend in my book. (I’m not worthy, I’m not worthy!)
He is pretty damn good!
thanks a lot.
Hector was also good in the interview
LOL ?
the interview was good but, i noticed you didnt ask “Hector, have you watched the Greatest Movie Ever? Well sir let me Blow your mind.”
au contraire mon ami, it was the first and most in-depth conversation we had, I can’t believe that the editor would remove it!
Hi guys,
I lurk around these parts sometimes too so let me know if you have questions or just wanna say hi. 🙂
here’s a question from the youtubes,
“Hector, my laptop really has issues once I approach one million polys. As an example exporting the file over to .obj format could take 15 minutes to a half an hour. I know a desktop pc would be the best option. What would you recommend for a laptop that could function well up to 3 million polys?”
Hi Gerry, I replied in youtube, but I’ll paste the answer here too in case it helps others too. 🙂 If you’re on zbrush you mainly need a decent amount of RAM and a decent video card. In general gaming laptops and PCs are often decent for running 3D programs since the requirements are similar. If you can do around 32 Gigs of RAM, a relatively recent Nvidia card for gaming even if 3-4 years old, and a procesor that isn’t too old, you should be fine. Then in Zbrush you can try to split up models into more subtools… Read more »
a great interview video the 3D prints are getting scarily good nowadays.
Yeah, I can’t believe I never realized Darksiders had been made into a Tabletop game, being a massive fan of the video game series. You’ve done some amazing work Hector. Thank you so much for taking your time to share some of your insights and processes and thoughts.
Thank you. As mentioned in the interview, there might be an unpainted minis re-release of Darksiders down the line, hope they move forward with it. 🙂
That would be absolutely amazing if they did (*just take my money already*). You’ve hit the mark so well with your Darksiders, I can almost hear War’s voice just by looking at the pictures of the model :).
Fantastic interveiw and very professional work from @avernos. Really good insight into the work of sculptors.
I just want to say thank you to @sculptorhec for his part in helping to launch Kingdom Death with his skills.
I stumbled across KD pre Kickstarter and while the art was great, it really was the quality of the minis that sold it to me.
This was a great interview, and I’d love to see more like it.
Thank you for liking the work. KD was a great school for me to learn what it takes to make good minis and it was also a lot of fun.
Great interview @sculptorhec and @avernos – some really good insights! I have the Essetria mini you did for the Archvillain patreon – and while I must admit I had a few frustrations with printing it, that was down to me being brand new at 3D printing! It was probably only about the 10th print I had ever done and 20 times the size of all the previous ones! – but I saw that mini on patreon and had to have it! After a couple of fails I eventually started to figure out the hardware and the techniques and I absolutely… Read more »
Fascinating interview and ho boy I’m into Mortal Kombat as the first bog Kickstarter game in ages I’ll go for.