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Evasive Species: Creating the Sasquatch
Over the course of the past year and a half, in order to keep myself busy during the isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic, I embarked on the most technically demanding project of my artistic career. Before the lockdown, I was invited to create an original sculpture for an exhibition titled Enchanted: A History of Fantasy Illustration at the Norman Rockwell Museum (link below). On March 13, 2020, lockdown issues had been ordered in Ohio and the exhibition was delayed for a year. Over the course of the next year, I would gain a new appreciation/disdain for the term "social distancing" as I began spending more time with Bigfoot than any member of my immediate family/social circle.
https://www.nrm.org/2021/05/enchanted-a-history-of-fantasy-illustration/
The finished piece, titled Evasive Species pushed me well past my comfort zone and forced me to become a stronger (and much stranger) artist. During this time, the tutorials from Stan Winston School of Character Arts provided much needed guidance and company in the studio. It is my great privilege, to share the finished piece with the SWSCA community now!
And now that you've seen the final product, here's a glimpse into the creative process that brought him to fruition . . .
The early foam armature for the head, next to death masks from a gorilla and orangutan. The maquette to the right was the initial concept for a full figure, which was later changed to a bust due to space restrictions at the venue.
The full-size clay bust, in-progress.
And a shot of me posing with the clay sculpt for scale reference . . .
Next, a fiberglass mold is made. 
After many layers of resin and glass the mold is pried apart. 
The original clay sculpt was destroyed in the process, but the mold was successful.
After demolding, cleaning, and patching seams, the paint job begins.
The tedious process of hair punching took 117 hours.
You can take a look at a 360 video of the final sculpt here, as well as more videos and process photos at Dan Chudzinski Studio on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CQHnnJyjiAU/
Thank you to everyone for taking the time to view my work!
Best of luck to everyone in the competition!
-Dan Chudzinski
https://www.nrm.org/2021/05/enchanted-a-history-of-fantasy-illustration/
The finished piece, titled Evasive Species pushed me well past my comfort zone and forced me to become a stronger (and much stranger) artist. During this time, the tutorials from Stan Winston School of Character Arts provided much needed guidance and company in the studio. It is my great privilege, to share the finished piece with the SWSCA community now!
And now that you've seen the final product, here's a glimpse into the creative process that brought him to fruition . . .
The early foam armature for the head, next to death masks from a gorilla and orangutan. The maquette to the right was the initial concept for a full figure, which was later changed to a bust due to space restrictions at the venue. The full-size clay bust, in-progress. And a shot of me posing with the clay sculpt for scale reference . . .Next, a fiberglass mold is made. After many layers of resin and glass the mold is pried apart. The original clay sculpt was destroyed in the process, but the mold was successful. After demolding, cleaning, and patching seams, the paint job begins.
The tedious process of hair punching took 117 hours.
You can take a look at a 360 video of the final sculpt here, as well as more videos and process photos at Dan Chudzinski Studio on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CQHnnJyjiAU/
Thank you to everyone for taking the time to view my work!
Best of luck to everyone in the competition!
-Dan Chudzinski
Genetic mutant by Edhel_SFX
Hello, I'm sfx artist from Russia.
My Inst: @Edhel_SFX
For this work, I created the original encapsulated silicone prosthetic makeup on face, neck and hand
My Inst: @Edhel_SFX
For this work, I created the original encapsulated silicone prosthetic makeup on face, neck and hand
Underwater Queen- rosasfx entry
Underwater Queen
Model- Charlotte Haldane
Photography- Magdalena Rosa (me)
Desing, sculpting, moulding, painting, application and costume- Magdalena Rosa (me)
The aim of the project was to combine attributes that are theoretically opposed to each other. I wanted to create something that would contact the features of femininity and masculinity, fantasy and reality, monstrosity and beauty, domination and submission, sex appeal and innocence.
The process of creating my character was quite complicated and it has evolved with every step. All the time, however, I stuck to the original idea of creating an underwater creature. Initially, I planned to build a monster from shells and stones, in shades of purple and pink, with one pair of horns. During the sculpting, I was strongly inspired by the sea horse and the whole figure was to be made of a skeleton and covered with insets. Eventually, I had to change the sculpture because the cowl would be very hard to mould.
Photography- Magdalena Rosa (me)
Desing, sculpting, moulding, painting, application and costume- Magdalena Rosa (me)
The aim of the project was to combine attributes that are theoretically opposed to each other. I wanted to create something that would contact the features of femininity and masculinity, fantasy and reality, monstrosity and beauty, domination and submission, sex appeal and innocence.
The process of creating my character was quite complicated and it has evolved with every step. All the time, however, I stuck to the original idea of creating an underwater creature. Initially, I planned to build a monster from shells and stones, in shades of purple and pink, with one pair of horns. During the sculpting, I was strongly inspired by the sea horse and the whole figure was to be made of a skeleton and covered with insets. Eventually, I had to change the sculpture because the cowl would be very hard to mould.
The final appearance of my monster is heavily inspired by the work of Francesco Fabiani, the coral and the underwater creatures.
Instagram @rosasfx
RosaSFX
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Alien Scorpion | Stan Winston creature contest
Hello,
this is my second entrie to the creature contest. ( First entrie to be found here)
This time an original creatur - a scorpion from somewhere in the galaxy.
He is something between a facehugger, a headcrap and a "casual" earth-based scoprion, with big knive-sharp claws in the front and a supersized heavy duty spike on the end of his plated tail.
The front claws are for fixating the prey, while the big spike slams down on them to kill and crack open potential armored enemies.
He was sculpted mainly in SuperSculpey with a few smaller parts ( mostly the small hairs and spikes) out of Cosplay.
I started him begining of february on the weekend sessions.
Sadly I was not able to start the paintjob on him yet for the contest, but since I saw, others are submitting raw-sculpts aswell, I though I'll give him a shot anyway.
I streamed the entire process of creating and sculpting him on my twitch channel, but I didnt come along to pull the sessions together in a little timelaps yet. I will do eventually, also to have a nice memorie where and how it started, and how he turned out.
Some High-Res Closeups I managed to shoot, to emphasize the detail in his plates and legs
this is my second entrie to the creature contest. ( First entrie to be found here)
This time an original creatur - a scorpion from somewhere in the galaxy.
He is something between a facehugger, a headcrap and a "casual" earth-based scoprion, with big knive-sharp claws in the front and a supersized heavy duty spike on the end of his plated tail.
The front claws are for fixating the prey, while the big spike slams down on them to kill and crack open potential armored enemies.
He was sculpted mainly in SuperSculpey with a few smaller parts ( mostly the small hairs and spikes) out of Cosplay.
I started him begining of february on the weekend sessions.
Sadly I was not able to start the paintjob on him yet for the contest, but since I saw, others are submitting raw-sculpts aswell, I though I'll give him a shot anyway.
I streamed the entire process of creating and sculpting him on my twitch channel, but I didnt come along to pull the sessions together in a little timelaps yet. I will do eventually, also to have a nice memorie where and how it started, and how he turned out.
Some High-Res Closeups I managed to shoot, to emphasize the detail in his plates and legs
Fawkes the Phoenix
As my university project I created
a replica static puppet of Fawkes the Phoenix from Harry Potter. This was my
first time working with featherwork, so the Stan Winston featherwork tutorials
really helped me out. Each feather was individually dyed and placed onto the
model. This project took 3 months to finish. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIhX26RORWE&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=mirrribirrri
My BIG Witch Bust: Linda
I created this bust for my final major project at university; I wanted to showcase all the skills I had learnt over the past three years I spent there and felt this did exactly that. I started by making the armature out of foamboard and expanding foam to get the rough shape of the head then I sculpted on top of that with WED clay to clarify the forms and add the details. I then made a 2 part fiberglass mould to cast her out of Progel10. Some of the veins in the face are wool fibers I cast into the silicone. It's also worth mentioning different areas of her face are deadened differently, some parts like the jowels on her jawline are up to 200% deadener I encapsulated in 0% deadened silicone so they feel more like loose skin as oppose to her nose which is 50% deadened so it feels more like cartilage. Once I demoulded her I sat her back on the fiberglass core and painted her using pigmented silicone and some alcohol paints. the eyeballs are painted vac formed acrylic and the hair is all hand punched, this includes her eyebrows, eyelashes, nostril hair, chin hair and the hair on her head! The whole project from start to finish took me 9 weeks, I
hope you love her as much as I do!
old witch puppet
My puppet measures 40 cm and is articulated, made with polymer clay and media mix as materials, it is a puppet oakdoll
KRENT the pumpkin reaper
KRENT is a underworld creature. He is a reaper. And it's a design which I have created.
It is handmade in polymerclay and mixed media. He is dressed with real leather fabric and belts, and polymerclay. The hair is made in whool.
He is in 1.6 scale. It is hand painted with acrylics. The skull flame in his hand was made in oil based clay and casted in resin.
(Sorry I am a foreigner, I had to translate in English)
This is the story of Krent the pumpkin reaper, told by himself.
Magic ... The air is imbued with magic ... You can feel it...
(* breathe *)
every time you inspire ... You feel it go down and flow into your stomach. The world and the laws of the universe are based on it .
But now, stranger, I'll tell you my truth: What do you know about necromancy?
Oh ... You sure don't know much about it (laughs), but don't be afraid, I'll explain everything:
Once a year, in the mortal world there is this holiday ... (laughs) they call this a holiday (laughs). .
Well, stranger, who among mortals leaves that world on that precise day ... Becomes a pumpkin!
Oh, no no, don't get me wrong. His death in his world, on that very day, fuels my power in my world.
And I, because I am tied to this power and chained with its deep roots, must pledge.
I will plant a small seed in this sin-scorched land, and a sprout will grow, fueled by its essence. That sprout will become a pumpkin ... And yes! You understood it well, foreigner. I turn mortal souls into pumpkins (laughs).
What do you think about it? Are you amazed? But you have nothing to fear, you will not become a pumpkin ... Just try not to detach yourself from your carcass on that very day ... Besides, I'm just doing my job!
You see, necromancy is a complex art of black magic, and black magic, like that of light, has a purpose, there is balance.
Especially necessary in this world, where a minimum charge of extra magic would be enough to unbalance this universe. For this, once the pumpkins reach maturity, I have to uproot them ... Ripping that gummy soul and adding it to my magical charge. Ooohhhhh ... I love that day, and plucking and cutting and skinning pumpkins is my favorite activity (laughs)
My world also has its laws governed by powerful gods, what you mortals would call ... GOD? But not here ... There is neither one ... This world is much larger and it is said that it has no borders. This whole world works like a machine, the energies in it feed their power, just as these greasy souls feed mine. A single sign from them would make mine, and yours of the world, disappear forever, dissolving and getting lost in the boundless temporal fabric. Enough with the fairy tales now ...
Especially necessary in this world, where a minimum charge of extra magic would be enough to unbalance this universe. For this, once the pumpkins reach maturity, I have to uproot them ... Ripping that gummy soul and adding it to my magical charge. Ooohhhhh ... I love that day, and plucking and cutting and skinning pumpkins is my favorite activity (laughs)
My world also has its laws governed by powerful gods, what you mortals would call ... GOD? But not here ... There is neither one ... This world is much larger and it is said that it has no borders. This whole world works like a machine, the energies in it feed their power, just as these greasy souls feed mine. A single sign from them would make mine, and yours of the world, disappear forever, dissolving and getting lost in the boundless temporal fabric. Enough with the fairy tales now ...
This is my story ... The known one.
I'm Krent the Pumpkin Reaper, and I'll be waiting for you here in my world, if you will be willing to know the rest (laughs)
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And now, some work in progress.
Thank you for watching and reading.
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And now, some work in progress.
Thank you for watching and reading.
