STAR WARS CELEBRATION

I just finished my "Vader Head" for the Star Wars Celebration next week.
DKE Toys is doing an art installation with a bunch of different artists painting and making magic with Vader masks. Mine is titled: "This Is Not What I Had In Mind" If you look closely at the real piece there's a shrieking skull inside, no really there is!

MYSTERY SCULPT HERE IT COMES!

Working furiously molding and casting the mystery sculpt, and making the “Mystery Prototype”. I couldn’t jump the gun on the “Official” first look of the prototype, which will be happening this week! I’m pretty sure, I don’t want to keep saying here it is!
Lifting the curtain and nothing is there. I took lots of pics of the molding process as part of the show and tell. I’ll get into the building of the armature of the new sculpt, and getting started. Tune in Monday the 14th! The picture is just a cool shot of robot pirate pieces.

VINYL TOY NETWORK!!

Wow, I had a great time meeting fans, and some of my good toy friends! Can’t wait for the next one.

FUN OLD PICTURE

I sometimes get hired by effects studios to sculpt stuff.
This was from 2004. It was a huge Mount Rushmore built for a Pizza Hut commercial with Miss Piggy. It’s refreshing to sculpt something really BIG when I’m so used to working on small scale figures. I got to do the “Teddy” head and some of the foam sculpting on the big mountain. We used W.E.D. clay LOTS of it.
WED is a water based clay that is specially formulated to resist cracking and shrinkage. It also gets a nice “leathery” consistency which makes it easy to sculpt.

BTW: I was asked if the “Happy Product” figure in my previous post was available. It was supposed to be released in 05 by Android 8 But I don’t know what happened.
I never saw it released.

Someone pointed out that there is a big pile of severed limbs in the picture behind the "Teddy Head". I think they were real.

MYSTERY SCULPT – THRID CLUE

This one is a big give away. I've shown too much, now I'm in big trouble!
Leaking information on super secret toy projects!

SUPER SCULPEY OR CHAVANT?

How do you decide when to use sculpey or clay? I love them both, usually if I need to do something super smooth, with sharp detail I’ll use Hard Chavant clay. There are methods using a mini torch, alcohol,(I will show later) and freeze spray to get excellent results. Super sculpey can get really smoothed out,but a little too gummy for super detail. I’ll bake it then sand it down, use patching compound to get a real nice shape. I mostly use SS if the figure is a maquette for production art. Or if I want to fully paint and photograph a piece before I mold and cast.







Angry Clobber Monkey is a good example of SS piece that was fully built painted and photographed. I can make molds, cast and assemble the rest of the run and still have a finished pic of the final character for show and tell while I'm still working.





“Happy Product” was a prototype for Mark Osborne based on the characters in his animated short “More”. This guy is so super smooth! Chavant NSP clay for sure.

Next week! The Mystery Sculpt! Revealed! Yahoo!

MYSTERY SCULPT – SECOND CLUE

The second part of the mystery sculpt. It looks like a tentacle, or maybe the delicate arm of a monster princess? Whatever it is it will be challenging to mold.