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Re: What's On Your Workbench? (Winter 2024-2025)
I finished my short capstone, Dreams of R’lyeh, including some pictures of the Cthulhu puppet, as well as a current werewolf puppet parts in progress for an upcoming project.
Re: Suggestions on How to Mold without Losing his Fingers?
Monika, you don't need to make a mold of a super sculpey sculpture. After you bake in oven its done and ready to paint. The Stan Winston School has a course "Creature Design - Digital To Practical" by Casey Love that shows how to sculpt using super sculpey.
Welcome to the Stan Winston School.
Regards, Sean Dalton
Welcome to the Stan Winston School.
Regards, Sean Dalton
Re: Laptop for vfx and video editing
I had the same budget a while ago and I got the ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14. It has a powerful processor and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060, which should handle softs like Blender, Dragonframe, Photoshop, and Premiere Elements smoothly. Also note it's really important to know how to screen record on windows 10 with audio, there are some handy guides online that can help with that.
As for books? I suggest these...Re: Traditional Matte Painting
Others to study. All are or were a #MasteroftheCraft especially Peter and his son Harrison. 
Tom Luca
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Re: Traditional Matte Painting
Research this man, one of my all-time favorite Matte Painters in all of the history of Cinema. A real Renaissance Artist of Matte Painting.
Tom Luca
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Re: Aflac Duck
Hi @Rarebird , welcome to our creative community! We passed your question along to former Stan Winston Studio mechanical designer Richard Landon, and he had this to say:
It was basically a trim-down of a traditional eye mechanism. As I recall, the eyeballs actually did not move; the lids were linkage-driven in pairs, with upper lids always moving together and lower lids always moving together. The linkages went to two pulleys that were in the center of the head, with drive links going to the lids, as mentioned above. Those pulleys then used high-strength fishing lines running through cable housings to go down to pulleys mounted on servos in the body. These servos were controlled via radio control. The jaw was a similar pulley to a linkage connection that opened and closed the jaw, with another pair of cables and housings running to a third servo in the body. Hope this helps! - Richard
It was basically a trim-down of a traditional eye mechanism. As I recall, the eyeballs actually did not move; the lids were linkage-driven in pairs, with upper lids always moving together and lower lids always moving together. The linkages went to two pulleys that were in the center of the head, with drive links going to the lids, as mentioned above. Those pulleys then used high-strength fishing lines running through cable housings to go down to pulleys mounted on servos in the body. These servos were controlled via radio control. The jaw was a similar pulley to a linkage connection that opened and closed the jaw, with another pair of cables and housings running to a third servo in the body. Hope this helps! - Richard
