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Re: What are your favorite in-camera makeup effects?
I have been amazed by the shadowing and highlighting techniques found on beauty blogs where the persons face is reshaped without prosthetics. I didn't know the brain could be so easily influenced by these tricks but the before and afters look like completely different bone structures. I would love to see a full course on this facial camoflage.
I have really enjoyed testing the taping and gluing tricks to temporarilly reshape features, higher eyebrows, gobbler, earlobes etc. but would also love to find a full range of techniques on reshaping lips, fullness, outline, oral safe temporary filler (like a gelatin plug to place in the mouth behind the lip).
I have been working on a gelatin mix with tint and reflective grains, in an attempt to create a far more translucent flesh. Something that will light up under a black light or full UV. Wishing to create a useful aquatic flesh effect with some possible irridescents.
I have really enjoyed testing the taping and gluing tricks to temporarilly reshape features, higher eyebrows, gobbler, earlobes etc. but would also love to find a full range of techniques on reshaping lips, fullness, outline, oral safe temporary filler (like a gelatin plug to place in the mouth behind the lip).
I have been working on a gelatin mix with tint and reflective grains, in an attempt to create a far more translucent flesh. Something that will light up under a black light or full UV. Wishing to create a useful aquatic flesh effect with some possible irridescents.
Re: Face Mask Sculpting for Animatronics
If you want to include the eyelids in the sculpture the cast skin, I would have them half-open. This way you don't have to fight the silicone too much when opening/closing the eyes, as silicone only wants to stretch or compress a set amount. Stretching is also much easier than compressing. I would also advise sculpting and casting a test eye section and eyelid to see how the stretching and compressing work for your application. Better to find out in a small test or two than to waste an entire sculpture/mold if it does not work the way you like.
For the mouth, I would have it just slightly open, so you don't have to cut the lips on your cast skin. If the mouth is too far open you may have trouble getting it to close properly without the skin buckling/bunching.
That's just how I would approach it.
This course series may also help you:
https://www.stanwinstonschool.com/tutorials/character-animatronics-how-to-build-an-animatronic-head-part-1-mechanical-underskull
/Chris
For the mouth, I would have it just slightly open, so you don't have to cut the lips on your cast skin. If the mouth is too far open you may have trouble getting it to close properly without the skin buckling/bunching.
That's just how I would approach it.
This course series may also help you:
https://www.stanwinstonschool.com/tutorials/character-animatronics-how-to-build-an-animatronic-head-part-1-mechanical-underskull
/Chris
Re: What's On Your Workbench? (Spring 2024)
Working on some medical task trainers. The online courses have been such a huge help with making molds and casting silicone.
Eric S
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Re: Mask sculpt feedback
Thank you Chris. It's Chavant NSP medium. I tried 99% alcohol and it just didn't have much effect. Watching other videos I tried some mineral spirits which dissolve oil paint and that works great! Following the technics from Normal Cabrera mask sculpt tutorial I was able to smooth and clean up the sculpture a little bit. I am spending WAAAY too much time on this but I am learning so much and it's actually so relaxing! I keep going back and forth on the forms before I start adding skin detail. Here is some progress if there is any on anatomy or anything else.
Help with painting plastisol
Hi I'm new, I have been trying to make my own soft plastic swimbaits for fishing, the are made from liquid plastisol and when cure are of a very soft plastic/rubber texture. I have tried everything to try to get the paint to stick but it just won't and easily rubs off? Any help and tips will be appreciated thanks
Re: Help with painting plastisol
Since yer not stating which paints, Pigments, media yer using I m assuming everyday household productsthere are a lot of Plastisol based inks in Screen printing. you can even get some on Amazon. I d try those. Other than that, anything that sticks to PVC should work in theory
Re: What's On Your Workbench? (Spring 2024)
@Darrell Green cheers mate, yeah, I guess I am that Wolf 😁
And yeah I ve got loads of stuff lying around. Many Many tubs full of found plastic bits n parts, rolls of fabric and foam, off cuts and greeblies and a hardware store across the road. Plus many patterns and decades of sketches and ideas and pre collected project bins. The base for the helmet is the Evil Ted basic Helmet pattern and then just layered foam cord (cut in half) and glued on foam off cuts. And SFX latex test castings that were going to waste otherwise. those corrugated tubes.
keep us posted about yer Adam Ant. Im curious to the results
And yeah I ve got loads of stuff lying around. Many Many tubs full of found plastic bits n parts, rolls of fabric and foam, off cuts and greeblies and a hardware store across the road. Plus many patterns and decades of sketches and ideas and pre collected project bins. The base for the helmet is the Evil Ted basic Helmet pattern and then just layered foam cord (cut in half) and glued on foam off cuts. And SFX latex test castings that were going to waste otherwise. those corrugated tubes.
keep us posted about yer Adam Ant. Im curious to the results
Making a mold of a polymer clay sculpture
Hello, I need help deciding what kind of mold to make for a project of mine. It is a 38 inch long alligator made of a 3d printed base and sculpted on-top with polymer clay. The skin for the project needs to be flexible as this is going to be an animatronic with a lot of movement I was going to make a concrete mold of it and then paint on the foam latex skin, however I was told that wouldn't work. I want the mold to reflect the detail in the alligator, and I need the skin to do the same. I'm unsure however, of where to start. I've tried researching for multiple hours and can't find many good posts on instructions on how to continue. I was considering making a silicone mold but I was told that foam latex won't adhere as good to it as it would to concrete. Any suggestions on how to make a flexible skin for such a large piece? Any suggestions help.