Creature Painting Contest — Stan Winston School of Character Arts Forums

GREMLINS 2 - Brown Gremlin Prototype Puppet Prop Replica - Entry #01

Kasper Anakin Klitmoeller — Mon, 04 May 2020 20:28:40 +0000

This is a paintjob I did on a life-sized gremlin puppet from GREMLINS 2.

I wanted it to be as screen-accurate as possible, and before I started out, I collected a whole bunch of reference pictures from the production, and recent pictures of some of the surviving puppets.

Every movie gremlin was painted quite differently, and I took the features I liked the most, and made this my own. I think I ended up with a realistic and accurate looking creature.

I did this entirely with regular brushes, using acrylics, and clear coat for the eyes, horns and claws.

To give the skin a bit of a shine, and to protect the paint, I sprayed it with a clear varnish.

The puppet is an officially licensed replica, cast from an original Rick Baker prototype. This particular gremlin design ended up looking almost exactly like this in the movie. But the feet were changed radically before filming, giving them way longer toes, which better matched the hands.

But otherwise this puppet is a great, accurate and very detailed replica from an amazing movie. And it was a fun experience trying to match the paintjob Baker’s team did back then. Maybe some details would have been easier to do by airbrushing. But having only brushes at my disposal was both a great challenge, and learning experience. And I think it turned out ok.

I kept the brown paint scheme on this gremlin, like the factory paint. But I also wanted a green one. (Both look sooo cool in the movie). So I knew I had to purchase another puppet to repaint.. Which I did

My second entry in this contest is my green version.

Enjoy

GREMLINS 2 - Green Gremlin Prototype Puppet Prop Replica - Entry #02

Kasper Anakin Klitmoeller — Mon, 04 May 2020 20:32:00 +0000

This is my second paintjob I did on a life-sized gremlin puppet from GREMLINS 2.

As with my brown gremlin, I wanted it to be as screen-accurate as possible, and collected reference pictures from the production, and recent pictures of some of the surviving puppets.

I took the features I liked the most from several screen-used gremlins, and made this my own.

I did this entirely with regular brushes, using acrylics, and clear coat for the eyes, horns and claws.

To give the skin a bit of a shine, and to protect the paint, I sprayed it with a clear varnish.

Doing a green version was great fun. Having already done a brown one, I think the process went a bit faster. But the green gremlin had a lot more markings all around, so in some places it was more difficult to do. But I’m very satisfied with the final look.

I changed the brown factory paint scheme on this gremlin, and turned it green. I think the factory paintjob was ok, but not very realistic looking. So doing these repaints was soo satisfying.

Now I’ve got both a brown.. and a green gremlin in my house..

Enjoy

My Baby Triceratops sculpture

Cesar_Gomez — Tue, 05 May 2020 00:18:25 +0000

Hi!!

This is my little scultpure of a baby triceratops, I researched this species thoroughly to make it as anatomically correct as I could, I made it using epoxy putty. My goal was to represent (both in sculpture and paint) a keratin cover on the horns, face and crest, this is strongly suggested by the actual fossil skull textures, keratin is a hard translusent shell like our fingernails, it is usually colorful in the animal kingdom and it is believed by paleontologists that this animal used its keratinized crest to display bright colors to attract other triceratops to mate and for species recognition, so I tried some daring colour schemes. The little creature meassures 16 cm long, then I made a wood base with rocky terrain for final display.

I hope you like it.

Face Hugger posable model repaint

Trooper_Nerd — Sun, 03 May 2020 10:35:10 +0000

This a 1:1 Life Size Facehugger posable model that comes with the Alien Covenant Blu Ray. The paint job on it was terrible so I decided to rework it to see if I could improve it. It was hand painted with acrylic and lots of washes in various tones were added for variation. I used Chromium pencils for fine details such as veins and blemishes. The whole thing was then painted with a translucent rubber which protects the paint work and also creates a subsurface skin like effect which also gives it the wet look that you can see in the photos.

Star Trek cross-breed i made

Fabulous FX — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 19:41:48 +0000

This is what I would imagine it to look like if you crossed a Klingon with a Cardassian. I used gelatin prosthetics. The horns are made of white "Model Magic" clay. I let them air dry for a couple of days and then airbrushed them. I also made the Star Trek shirt he is wearing.

Jurassic Park Tyrannosaurus Rex Bust.

Hatching Studios — Fri, 20 Mar 2020 09:30:20 +0000

This Tyrannosaurus rex bust was sent to me to be built and painted, the client asked for the bust to be painted in the original color scheme that was given to the tyrannosaurus seen in Jurassic Park but under neutral lighting, since the breakout scene made it look gray-ish he wanted to have this piece to be as faithful to the original as possible and that's exactly what I attempted to achieve with this paint job.

The taxidermy eyes were crafted from scratch and painted to emulate the ones of the animatronic as well, it was an extensive process with around 65 hours of work just for the paint job that was completely done by hand brush, no airbrush was used at all in the bust, hundreds of scales were painted individually, each tooth was weathered individually and then covered in translucent resin to give it that wet look.

This project is a labor of love since Jurassic Park was one of the movies that marked my childhood and later made me realize I wanted to be an artist, I couldn't be happier to have built and painted this girl and now being able to share it with everyone who's reading this, thanks.

Original alien design, latex and polyfoam bust

Chase stiles — Sat, 04 Apr 2020 04:04:21 +0000

Hey I just wanted to submit my most recent alien latex and polyfoam bust. The piece is a little over life size and was originally designed, sculpted, molded, casted, and painted by me. I had a blast creating it and referenced an awesome fish included in the pictures as well to have an original paint design! Thank you Stan Winston school for also helping me with the knowledge to help get to where I am at today. I hope you guys enjoy and good luck to everyone!

Aquatic creature - Bust

Sanne — Sun, 03 May 2020 22:13:03 +0000

Hey everyone!

I’ve been working on this creature for the last couple of weeks, because of the lockdown I had some extra time on my hands.

I sculpted the model together with my partner in crime Lawrence Kelatow. We alternated in sculpting him in WED clay. After that I moulded him with several layers of silicone and made a support shell out of urethane plastic.
He was then rotocasted in translucent polyurethane plastic and backed up with foam.

For colouring I used a combination of hand painting and airbrush. The eyes were painted as well and glossed with 5-minute epoxy.

I used lots of reference pictures of exotic sea life.

Original Tyrannosaurus bust sculpt

Dagomar Henderson — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 20:25:33 +0000

Hello there!
Here's a resin model kit Tyrannosaurus bust designed and sculpted by me in Monsterclay, molded with Smooth on products and slush cast with resin from FormX.
Then painted with acrylics by Vallejo and some applied latex to mimic shedding keratin sheets surrounding the eyes.
It's a 1:8 scale bust measuring 9.4 inches long, 6.7 inches high.
Unfortunately could not get to make a mount for the head for these pics.

I've been a dinosaur enthousiast since i was a kid and like many other kids I used to draw and Playdough-d a lot of them.
T-rex always playing a prominent role. I dreamt about making dinosaurs and monsters for movies when i grew up but i kind of got on another track.
Many years later my 5 year old son developed the same interest for these magnificent extinct beasts.
Through my boy my old passion got reanimated and I set my mind creating my all time favorite dino ; Tyrannosaurus rex.
With another old passion being sculpting which was in need of some serious dusting off I got to work and bought a bucket of clay.
Using loads of paleo-art, pictures of skeletons and videos of sculpting pros like the Winston crew as references I slowly but surely got to make it to my liking.
This bust feeling like a sort of self study exam got me feeling i wanna make more.
I hope there will be more dinosaur and monster creations to come. I got some catching up to do!

Chrz!
Dagomar Henderson

Kuiil & Blurrg.

Elisabetta Visentini — Fri, 20 Mar 2020 15:18:13 +0000

Another particular couple belonging to the Intergalactic Universe.
Kuiil & Blurrg completely handmade and hand painted by me.
Unique piece.

Materials:
Polymerclay mix & Cosclay
Wool and resin.
Decorated wooden base.

Measurements:
43 cm x 35 cm - 17"x13,5"

Severed Zombie Head

Barbara Marik — Sun, 12 Apr 2020 17:09:44 +0000

Life size severed head casted in latex filled with foam latex and painted with oil paint/rubber cement mixture. I originally sculpted the piece using Monster Clay (medium) and made the mold out of plaster. Mold making and paint mix learned from Stan Winston classes online!

Hellbreed! Predator vs. Predalien!

BeardedWonderStudios — Mon, 04 May 2020 23:38:53 +0000

This is a 1/6th scale resin model kit sculpted by the incredibly talented Narin out of Thailand, depicting a predator entangled in combat with a xenomorph-slash-predator hybrid. Pretty rad!

Painted almost entirely with acrylics, with some ink and oil washes here and there.

The bandolier, quills and knife tassle are all custom and added by myself. This was a lot of fun to paint! Hope everyone likes it!

Right click the images and "open in new tab" to see a larger, higher res version!

* Creature Painting Contest Winner Announcement *

Chris Ellerby — Mon, 11 May 2020 22:59:08 +0000

Kudos to all of you who showed off your paint skills in our Creature Painting Contest! This was one of our biggest contests ever, with nearly 400 entries to choose from, and as is always the case, it was a tough task for us to pick a winner.

There was something about this year's first-place entry that completely fascinated us here at Stan Winston School, not just the subtly realistic paint job, but the overall emotional effect, combining both Zen calm and a warrior's spirit. Ladies and gentlemen, we present to you the 2020 Creature Painting Contest winner: "SEIZA 1/4 scale Ape" by Velayos!

As Velayos shared along with his submission: "This piece is very special for me since it has been a lot of work and reflection and feeling. This piece is about... aspiring to be better, far from lights and sound, far from the empty world of the modern human. SEIZA means 'sitting correctly' and implies self-control, focus, and recognition of the here and now. In Seiza there are no lights or sounds, there are no empty dreams or smoke. Only the real world ... and us."

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Honorable Mentions (in no particular order)

Original Tyrannosaurus bust sculpt by Dagomar Henderson
https://forums.stanwinstonschool.com/discussion/7287/original-tyrannosaurus-bust-sculpt

PHANTOMCORE BYEBYE paint by Zi Chen Gong
https://forums.stanwinstonschool.com/discussion/7153/phantomcore-byebye-paint

Necromechanics ( 2D ) by Valery Petelin
https://forums.stanwinstonschool.com/discussion/7335/necromechanics-2d

Fully custom Airbrushed Predator biomask props by Simon Greenaway
https://forums.stanwinstonschool.com/discussion/7216/fully-custom-airbrushed-predator-biomask-props

Aquatic Creature Bust by Sanne
https://forums.stanwinstonschool.com/discussion/7379/aquatic-creature-bust

Herculeses by Joe Dunaway
https://forums.stanwinstonschool.com/discussion/7163/herculeses

Jurassic Park Tyrannosaurus Rex Bust by Hatching Studios
https://forums.stanwinstonschool.com/discussion/7076/jurassic-park-tyrannosaurus-rex-bust

Jumbo Kathoga kit.38 inches by Gkasylum
https://forums.stanwinstonschool.com/discussion/7364/jumbo-kathoga-kit-38-inches

Blue Dragon by CPK

https://forums.stanwinstonschool.com/discussion/7376/entry-1-blue-dragon

Original alien design, latex and polyfoam bust by Chase Stiles
https://forums.stanwinstonschool.com/discussion/7135/original-alien-design-latex-and-polyfoam-bust

Hellbreed! Predator vs. Predalien! by BeardedWonderStudios
https://forums.stanwinstonschool.com/discussion/7446/hellbreed-predator-vs-predalien

Giant Moray Eel by Anna Frenkel
https://forums.stanwinstonschool.com/discussion/7100/giant-moray-eel-entry-1

- Team Stan Winston School

* The Creature Painting Contest Has Ended *

Chris Ellerby — Tue, 05 May 2020 07:00:15 +0000

The Creature Painting Contest is now closed for entries.

The winning entry will be announced on Monday May 11th, so stay tuned!

Thank you all for sharing your creations with our community here at the Stan Winston School of Character Arts Forums.

Please click the "Like" button on your favorite contest entries. We take the community's reaction into consideration during the judging process. Let your voices be heard!

/Chris

CPC2020 Entry No. 2: Oxidated Marrekk- 1:1 Zombie- Wallhanger

Kai Rottmann — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 17:16:42 +0000

Hey there,

this is my 2nd Entry to the Contest.

Its a hand sculpted Zombie - wallhanger. Casted in platinum silicone and painted with Smooth- ON psycho paint paints via airbrush and brushes. Different techniques and paint- consistencys (used thi- vex- thickener and thinner) were achieved to give it the final finish.
Matting and glossing- agents were used, too.
The teeth are out of dental acryl and painted with teeth- stains.
The hair was blended from 4 different shades and single punched by me, too.

I hope you like it :-)

Greets

Kai

CPC2020 Entry No. 3: Furuf- the extraterrestrial Creature

Kai Rottmann — Mon, 04 May 2020 18:31:52 +0000

Hey there :-)

This will be my 3rd Entry to the Creature painting Contest.

It is an extraterrestrial creature i`ve done for a small indie production.

They wanted to have kind of a "stupid"- only controlled by its instincts- creature which is able to manipulate the gens of other creatures to get the ability of doing photosynthese on a planet far away.
The creature should look like a baby, which is a few weeks old - because it was bred in a test tube on earth.
I had to match the instinct- controlled overall look with the touch of never seen in the sculpture + the paintjob which makes it believable.
I had references of shark egg yolk , different frogs and amphibic creatures.

The creature was casted out of platinum silicone and painted with silicone paints from smooth on- psycho paint and silc-pic pigments.

Different washes and paint additives were used to achieve the final glossy look. I worked with an airbrush and small detail brushes.

I hope you like it :-)

Greets

Kai

Creature painting contest - lifesize silicone babies

Ella Mck — Sun, 26 Apr 2020 15:41:46 +0000

I created three of these lifesize babies. I created the original in monster clay and reproduced with mold made from dragonskin, then poured in deadened ecoflex20 platinum silicone. The intrinsic colour is 11 different flocking colours plus my own pigment colour using silc pig. The extrinsic paint work is psycho paint and occasinally platsil gel with pigments from silc pig - both airbrush and directly applied. The interior of the mouth is also painted and there is full detailed uper and lower gums, tongue and uvula.The main aim here is to get the colours to look alive in every lighting situation. The photos are almost all taken in daylight without any electric light. The hair was coloured by me using locally sourced mohair, which I coloured using human hair dyes. There are 4 different colours used. Each hair is directionally punched as a single hair. Their is an armature inside to allow for posing and the head sits on a ball joint with a carefully designed neck join to hide the join whatever angle it sits at. They are 21inches in length and weight 9lb 4oz - like a newborn. Thank you!

Merman Display

Jim Bycznski — Tue, 05 May 2020 03:04:45 +0000

1:1 Scale Merman and base. Rubber Inks, FW Inks and various washes.

“La Mujer de Mis Sueños” series (3/6) - Watercolor

Cr3atura — Tue, 05 May 2020 05:55:53 +0000

Hi.. I enjoy being alone and spending quality time drawing and painting my beautiful creaturas. I am extremely excited to be participating.

These are las mujeres de mis sueños (the women of my dreams). Find more on my IG: @valeria_creatura
I aim to some day have the skills and tools to bring them to life, off paper. 🌹 [all original work/creation]

Crimson Dragon Moving Jaw Mask

Joshua Lykkeberg — Tue, 05 May 2020 06:59:41 +0000

Crimson Dragon Moving Jaw Mask:
I have a video showing the movement/functionality of my mask here:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B6tmqasDPUq/

Moving Jaw Mask I had an idea for when I wanted to have something to wear at conventions. I made it with a 3D pen and painted with acrylic paints. I have since sold a bunch of masks since starting making these in Oct 2019 (with no real prior sculpting experience before).

Evil Clown Moving Jaw Mask

Joshua Lykkeberg — Tue, 05 May 2020 06:58:00 +0000

Evil Clown Moving Jaw Mask:
I have a video showing the movement/functionality of my mask here:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B45ZauKjnRs/

Moving Jaw Mask I had an idea for when I wanted to have something to wear at conventions. I made it with a 3D pen and painted with acrylic paints. I have since sold a bunch of masks since starting making these in Oct 2019 (with no real prior sculpting experience before).

Veraj Moving Jaw Mask

Joshua Lykkeberg — Tue, 05 May 2020 06:55:15 +0000

Veraj Moving Jaw Mask:
I have a video showing the movement/functionality of my mask here:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B8ma8GLDjRP/

Moving Jaw Mask I had an idea for when I wanted to have something to wear at conventions. I made it with a 3D pen and painted with acrylic paints. I have since sold a bunch of masks since starting making these in Oct 2019 (with no real prior sculpting experience before).

Uzumaki by Junji Ito - Entry #3

Jasmine Romero — Tue, 05 May 2020 06:43:41 +0000

Attempted to sculpt/paint Uzumaki by Junji Ito

I started off with a basic doll head, cut/dyed its hair, added some clay to sculpt a few things onto it and painted it.

I have a video on this entire process from start to finish:

https://youtu.be/QSpWEbqvIJQ

•@kyrlonbrand spray paint in Matte White was my base

•@decoart acrylic paint in White & Black for detailing

•@sugarpill eyeshadow in Bulletproof for the shading

**My Instagram is @coldsodaz**

Charcoal Frankenstein

ChrisChristmas — Tue, 05 May 2020 05:12:36 +0000

After six years of not doing charcoal I decided to go back to it, and this was the first piece I did.

Custom paint work

Guillermo — Tue, 05 May 2020 05:05:10 +0000

Cyclops, old man, Bigfoot creature.

Mixed Media Predapug!!!

ChrisChristmas — Tue, 05 May 2020 05:04:38 +0000

This was an extremely fun piece to do.
Airbrush
Ink
Watercolor

Mixed Media Puglien!!

ChrisChristmas — Tue, 05 May 2020 05:01:11 +0000

He may be a cute little Alien but he'll eat your heart out.
Airbrush
Ink
Watercolor

Ceasar from Planet of The Apes 🦍

Cory Hamilton Design — Tue, 05 May 2020 04:42:56 +0000

Finished this larger than life size head of Ceasar just in the nic- o- time:) He is sculpted in Cedar and brush painted with Nova Acrylic paints. One of my favorite movie characters!

Jack Sparrow Jolly Rogers 🏴‍☠️

Cory Hamilton Design — Tue, 05 May 2020 04:25:14 +0000

Thought I’d post a couple more before the deadlines up! This is a life size Pirates of the Caribbean piece I was commissioned to create. Skull is carved in Honduran Mahogany ( the swords and cannon ball too) It’s all mounted on reclaimed cedar which I distressed and burned to look like pirate ship wreckage. Painted up with Nova Acrylic paints.

Creature Painting Contest

REK — Tue, 05 May 2020 04:17:55 +0000

Please take a look at the custom airbrushed helmet I have done. I used airbrush, sculpt and installed electrical components onto this piece. I call it the Bio-mechanical Killer Clown. Airbrushed with Iwata guns and House of Kolor auto paints. RIP to the legend Mike Lavallee he is one of my inspirations for airbrush. Thank you for your consideration. May art live and show through us all! REK WWW.REKAIRBRUSH.COM

https://youtu.be/wqLanJnOwH4