The making
Detail this small
doesn't come cheap.
The Crown of Thorns is 13 millimeters across. The Ouroboros, 33. Inside pieces that size: the muscle in Atlas's back, the scales on the serpent, the cracks in Sisyphus's stone.
Getting that detail to survive in metal is the hard part.
That's what the method behind this level of detail costs us to sample a single charm, before one ever ships.
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File 02 · Atlas · Wireframe 01 — The file
It starts as a file.
Every charm is modeled in 3D first. The form is mapped out before a single detail goes on.
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File 02 · Atlas · Sculpt 02 — The sculpt
Then it gets sculpted.
The muscle in his back. The folds of the cloth. The cracks in the stone he carries. All of it is sculpted into the model at full detail, at pendant scale.
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First casts · still on the sprue 03 — The sample
$1,000 a sample.
Holding that much detail in something this small takes a slow, exact process. It costs $1,000 per charm just to make the samples.
These are the first casts, still on the sprue.
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File 02 · Atlas · Finished 04 — The finish
Then it gets darkened.
Each charm is antiqued and oxidized. The recesses go dark, the high points stay bright, and every detail reads.
On file
Measured in millimeters.
Packaging
Issued in the tin.
Each charm arrives in the black MENTALITY tin with its pouch.