[1/72 Scale] Designing, Conceptualising and Creating Units - The Process (feat. Sohei Monks & Ronin)

When making units I have an extensive process that is extremely unattractive to anyone normal. In the same way that there is a creative process to work out the visual language, themes and iconography of anything, I do that but unpaid. Weta workshop probably get paid decently to do this, and are respected in the industry, I do the sweatshop equivalent, or the free government legal counsel they give to the serial killer cannibal where they have him on tape. Hey, someone's got to do it. I suspect many people into miniature making have an intuitive process for this, but this is my design methodology laid out exhaustively. The target audience probably numbers in the dozens globally. Whole dozens!
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[@TheCommandBunker]

Nice breakdown! You definitely organize your process more than I do. My steps are similar, but it's much more chaotic. With the new players entering the scene, they'll need to know how to get through the planning process, and I have a feeling this video will help them. Now we just have to find a way to get them to see it....

[@CliosPaintingBench]

I think many players go through a similar process intuitively, they think what looks nice, what conversions to do, so I'm just formalising what I think many people do anyway. Haha, the chance of people jumping into this field of historicals is quite low, but I've always tried to make content that would have helped me when I was starting. If you build it, they will come.

[@TheCommandBunker]

@@CliosPaintingBench Very true. It's a good thing to codify the process though. You're less likely to miss steps and have to go back and figure something out after the fact. The topics we do are far more esoteric, but I have hope that one day we will see a historicals renaissance.

[@CliosPaintingBench]

@@TheCommandBunker At least unit building as a process is system agonistic. Though I use examples from history (I mean quite loosely given that my Sohei and ronin are quite exaggerated) I probably used to think about my units in this way for my Black Templars and Orks and Alpha Legion back in the day. I would love to see more people in our historicals though!

[@AwesomeMoss]

What an excellent video! More like this would be great.

[@CliosPaintingBench]

Thank you! I try to make a variety of content ranging from meme stuff to analytical stuff to guide stuff, there will be more guide stuff at some point!

[@Getwsoda]

Great video! Keep it up ❤️

[@CliosPaintingBench]

Thank you! Got a great run of content for this drop, I think. I'm quite proud of my next video coming out!