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Re: Hi! I'm looking for the most suitable clay for sculpture.
There's really no one best clay. The clay you pick is often based on budget, type of sculpture, and what you feel like working with. For smaller maquettes and figures, Super Sculpey is a popular choice, if you are looking for an inexpensive clay and don't expect the sculpt to take weeks/months WED clay is a popular choice, and if you like oil-based clays Chavant NSP and Monster Clay are both popular choices. I don't know if you would be able to find WED clay in Turkey, though it might be possible. If not, you may be able to find another similar water-based clay locally that is inexpensive.
What materials you should buy also depends on what you plan on sculpting and what clay you end up finding.
/Chris
What materials you should buy also depends on what you plan on sculpting and what clay you end up finding.
/Chris
Re: Best Method for fur transfer onto silicone skin?
Hi Jay, I believe Deborah's original response answers your follow-up question. Silicone caulking is what you should use as an adhesive for silicone skin, working small areas at a time. But as she also says, be sure to TEST first!
Re: Best Method for fur transfer onto silicone skin?
Hi Jay,
We passed your question along to our Fur Transfer course instructor Deborah Galvez and she offers this advice:
"As a good rule of thumb, silicone needs a silicone adhesive. Try a silicone caulking and do small areas at a time as the silicone has a certain amount of work time. Try a TEST first to make sure it works. Hope this helps."
We passed your question along to our Fur Transfer course instructor Deborah Galvez and she offers this advice:
"As a good rule of thumb, silicone needs a silicone adhesive. Try a silicone caulking and do small areas at a time as the silicone has a certain amount of work time. Try a TEST first to make sure it works. Hope this helps."
Re: Hiding a seam in a foam puppet
Hi David,
Things are going well, thanks! Focusing on art and creativity during all the chaos has been a big help for me personally. Hope you too are safe and well!
/Chris
Things are going well, thanks! Focusing on art and creativity during all the chaos has been a big help for me personally. Hope you too are safe and well!
/Chris
Re: What's On Your Workbench? (Summer 2020)
This years project was a 25' crouching gorilla. Combining an animatronic cable eye mechanism, breathing chest and puppetry to bring it to life.
Thanks Stan Winston!
Thanks Stan Winston!
Re: Homework Week One
Hi Guys
This is as far as I have been able to get due to work getting in the way.
its based on a embryo creature.
Hope you like it.
Steve
Re: Hair on my Pennywise buste
Hi Cyrille,
You could use an off-the-shelf wig and dye/style it to work for this character, make your own wig, or hand lay the hair.
Here is one of our lessons on hand laying hair for prosthetics
https://www.stanwinstonschool.com/tutorials/character-hairwork-hair-laying-for-prosthetic-makeup
/Chris
You could use an off-the-shelf wig and dye/style it to work for this character, make your own wig, or hand lay the hair.
Here is one of our lessons on hand laying hair for prosthetics
https://www.stanwinstonschool.com/tutorials/character-hairwork-hair-laying-for-prosthetic-makeup
/Chris
Re: What's On Your Workbench? (Summer 2020)
Here’s what’s been on my bench the past month 😉 hope everyone is well. I’m just plugging away down here 😉 -Kahula
Kahula
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Re: Monster Clay in the Movies
Hi Fearicia:
Thank you for the question. This is Arnold from Monster Makers. My company is the manufacturer of Monster Clay.
Monster Clay has been around for decades, so it has been used for many films and is used by most if not all of the fx shops around the world. The Artists that have used it in films are free to comment directly, but a few of the prominent films off the top of my head: Star Wars: The Force Awakens: Monster Clay was used to create the melted Darth Vader Mask. Monster Clay was also used to recreate Yoda in Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Many of the creatures in David's lab for Alien Covenant were sculpted in Monster Clay as well. There are quite a few more but I would have to dig a little to get a more comprehensive list. For images you can find quite a large number by just searching some of the above references or just search Monster Clay.
Hope that helps and Happy New Year!
Best regards,
Arnold
monstermakers.com
cosclay.com
Thank you for the question. This is Arnold from Monster Makers. My company is the manufacturer of Monster Clay.
Monster Clay has been around for decades, so it has been used for many films and is used by most if not all of the fx shops around the world. The Artists that have used it in films are free to comment directly, but a few of the prominent films off the top of my head: Star Wars: The Force Awakens: Monster Clay was used to create the melted Darth Vader Mask. Monster Clay was also used to recreate Yoda in Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Many of the creatures in David's lab for Alien Covenant were sculpted in Monster Clay as well. There are quite a few more but I would have to dig a little to get a more comprehensive list. For images you can find quite a large number by just searching some of the above references or just search Monster Clay.
Hope that helps and Happy New Year!
Best regards,
Arnold
monstermakers.com
cosclay.com