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Molding for Silicone sculpture question.
I'm sculpting a Wolfman of my own design and just about finished. Inspired by Mike Hill, I want to make a fullsize display.
I've watched many of the courses here regarding molding for silicone but still have a few questions about the preparing the sculpture for eyes and teeth for the final foam-filled silicone piece.
I don’t have eye blanks so I free sculpted the eyes. I hope to be able to cut the silicone and insert third party eyes. Is that what is normally done?
For the mouth, I intend to do the same thing, cut out the silicone in the mouth and insert the fang set I'll make out of Dental acrylic.
My Ed Head makes it impossible to insert eyes and teeth to sculpt around.
Here are a few pics for reference:
Re: Busted Eye Silicone Prosthetic
So for the mold, I did a silicone mold first then Ultracal Plaster outer mold on top of the silicone. The prosthetic itself is encapsulated in acetone based cap plastic though I did have some blending issues with silicone getting caught in places it wasn't supposed to (mold not tight enough when casting the silicone), so for those areas I used 3rd Degree Silicone Compound to blend the edges into the skin, pro-tip using this stuff-vegetable oil blends the edges beautifully. If you don't want to use Ultracal or plaster for an outer mold, Smooth-On makes a great product called Plasti-Paste and when it sets it's rock solid. It's a little on the pricier side though.
Hope this helps!!
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The Grafton Monster
When I learned that a nearby town was hosting its inaugural festival celebrating its local cryptid, the Grafton Monster, I volunteered to be the monster. Problem was, as a rank amateur, I possessed more enthusiasm than I did knowledge and had no idea how to build a creature suit of this scale. Fortunately, I found everything I needed to execute through the online creature suit courses at the Stan Winston School of Character Arts! The design is partly based on the depiction of the monster in the videogame Fallout 76, which itself is an interpretation of the headless brute’s description in local lore. To bring the beast to fruition, I opted for a “wire-frame” design with EVA endoskeleton covered in upholstery foam. Several pool noodles were sacrificed as well. The majority of the suit hangs directly or indirectly from a bicycle helmet and weighs just 11 pounds total. Eleven months and about 500 hours later, the Grafton Monster suit made its timely debut and has since appeared at a number of fairs, parades and children’s events. As a physical therapist, I really enjoyed sculpting the musculature and figuring out how the monster would move. I've included video links so you can see it in action. Thanks for looking.
https://youtu.be/PH3fb-RoRekhttps://youtube.com/shorts/5RlHUM4X2h4?feature=share
https://youtube.com/shorts/SON3PQTxs90?feature=share
https://youtube.com/shorts/QXMKA29TDlI?feature=share
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Thank you so much!!!
And well done to everyone who entered!
