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Fester Addams (1991) taxidermy lamp

artfink@gmail.com — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 22:37:48 +0000

"Fester Addams" (1991)

Media: chavant clay sculpt, silicone matrix mold, resin cast, acrylic paint, faux fur, mdf

My first shot at a 1:1 portrait sculpt, first chavant clay sculpt, first silicone matrix mold.

Taxidermy treatment inspired by "Cousin Farouk", the leg in the fish head from the original TV series which fascinated me as a child.

Stranger Things Season 3 Mind Flayer

Chris p — Sun, 02 Feb 2020 20:51:15 +0000

For my first submission, I am posting a sculpture I did of the Mind Flayer from Stanger Things Season 3. It took me a few days shy of a week to finish it.

"The Conjuring" music box

Elisabetta Visentini — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 13:30:42 +0000

1:1 scale handmade "The Conjuring" music box. Hand painted.

Godzilla sculpt

MonstrousCreations — Sun, 16 Feb 2020 16:58:10 +0000

Godzilla alternative design resin statue. @monstrous_creations

Zbrush to 3D print to final painted 46 cm long 32 cm high resin statue.

BEHEMOT - '' The Mist ''. 2008 di Stephen King - Frank Darabont. H.P.Lovecraft Inspired monster.

Elisabetta Visentini — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 13:13:00 +0000

Hi! he is behemoth.

Dimensions: 10 '' (25.5 cm) Materials: Polymerclay Cosclay + Apoxie Sculpt + resin.
Painted with pastels and Genesis oil paint. (+ A toy car stolen from my children's room😂)

Demon MOROK

Josef Rarach — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 15:49:49 +0000

IMATS LA 2020.

Photo by @liquidstarphotograhy
SFX MAKEUP Vlad Taupes
Demon MOROK Josef Rarach
Materials: Foam Latex Monster Makers, PPI, Mel Pax, 9mmsfx, Mouth FX
Dental effects Bite Makers

* Horror Character Contest Winner Announcement *

Chris Ellerby — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 20:36:17 +0000

Thanks to all who took the time to terrify us with your Horror Art! You gave us six weeks of nightmares but it was totally worth it to be reassured that horror art is alive and well around the world.

As always, it's difficult to select a "winner" when it's something as subjective as art, but this year's winning artist inched out the competition by a fang's-length. Ladies and Gentlemen, it is with great pleasure (and a touch of fear) that we present to you our 2020 Horror Character Contest winner: "Nosferatu" by Daniel Moy!

As Daniel wrote along with his submission:

"I would like to share a personal project I have been working on. This character is based on the 1922 movie Nosferatu. I wanted to create a modern-day version of this character how I imagine how he would look on the big screen."

We've always been big fans F.W. Murnau's unforgettable, unauthorized version of Bram Stoker's Dracula, starring Max Schreck as Count Orlok. Daniel's new interpretation of the character, expertly rendered with a variety of digital tools, makes us want to see Nosferatu in the theaters again!

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Honorable Mentions:

Zombie by Kenny De Paepe
https://forums.stanwinstonschool.com/discussion/6867/zombie

Lord of Tindalos by Velayos
https://forums.stanwinstonschool.com/discussion/6993/lord-of-tindalos-1-6-scale-statue

Paneema Doll by Isabella Quack
https://forums.stanwinstonschool.com/discussion/6984/paneema-doll

Skull- The Mask of Anhanga by Kapel Furman
https://forums.stanwinstonschool.com/discussion/6949/skull-the-mask-of-anhanga

Demon MOROK by Vlad Taupes & Josef Rarach
https://forums.stanwinstonschool.com/discussion/6975/demon-morok

Junji Ito's The Window Next Door by John Dipietro
https://forums.stanwinstonschool.com/discussion/6808/junji-itos-the-window-next-door

Freezer by invictus
https://forums.stanwinstonschool.com/discussion/6851/freezer

Mirror Neurons by Facu Casa
https://forums.stanwinstonschool.com/discussion/6907/mirror-neurons

BEHEMOT - ''The Mist'' 2008 di Stephen King - Frank Darabont. H.P. Lovecraft-inspired monster by Elisabetta Visentini
https://forums.stanwinstonschool.com/discussion/6760/behemot-the-mist-2008-di-stephen-king-frank-darabont-h-p-lovecraft-inspired-monster

RAGNA by Connie Gallo
https://forums.stanwinstonschool.com/discussion/6966/ragna

The Jabberwocky by Christopher Moonlight
https://forums.stanwinstonschool.com/discussion/6806/the-jabberwocky

Wendigo by Boglarka Zilahi
https://forums.stanwinstonschool.com/discussion/6869/wendigo-horror-character-contest

- Team Stan Winston School

Poisonous Thoughts

Sam Ford — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 01:59:28 +0000

Sometimes the darkest parts of the human mind possess a deadly life of their own...

An original-design concept drawing for an upcoming feature-length horror movie I'm working on. Micron pen on paper. This will soon be a fully articulated puppet, one of many nightmarish beings destined for an appearance in the film. More details to come as production gets nearer, stay tuned!!

Zombie

Kenny De Paepe — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 19:33:06 +0000

My 2nd entry is my zombie I did last year
Always been a fan of the zombies from the walking dead ,so I made my own version of a zombie.
This is a latex bust with selfmade epoxy eyes and real hair.

Kenny
Berserker FX

Paneema Doll

Isabella Quack — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 16:31:06 +0000

This is a sculpture of my own design, called the "Paneema Doll", 20cm in height, she is made of epoxy clay and painted/ airbrushed with acrylic paints. As long as this creature is kept under glass, it can't smell anything and remains in a comatose state.

Thanks for looking!

Good luck to everyone who's participating in the contest!

Cheers,

Isabella

Marsilyn

Quentin Lefebvre — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 00:25:43 +0000

9,5 inch resine figure, handpainted and crafted . She comes in peace !!

Gargoyle at the sunset

Phrenan illustrations — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 21:10:13 +0000

A gargoyle of a greek temple over the head of a cerberus, waiting for the dusk to break loose from the stone.
Digitally colored illustration (photoshop) and the basic pencil drawing.
My name is Fernando, I am a graphic designer, but at the same time I also do illustration work, the latter being my true passion. In this facet I adopt the pseudonym of Phrenan.
You can see more of my work in: https://www.instagram.com/phrenan_illustrations/

Lord of Tindalos 1/6 scale statue

Velayos — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 17:46:55 +0000

Hi ! A new entry for the contest. This is the Lord of Tindalos, inspired in the book "Hounds of Tindalos" of Frank Belknap Long , that after was included in the Chtulhu myths. Is also inspired in a concept of the great artist Dibujante Nocturno. This character was sculpted in monsterclay medium, casted in polyurethane resin and painted with acrylics and oleums. The base was painted with metallic oxidated paint. I also added translucent hair made with silicon glue
1/6 scale 40 cm tall.

Have a great day!

Eduardo Velayos

Size reference

Dibujante Nocturno's original concept art

Nosferatu Murnau/kinski

Velayos — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 16:35:14 +0000

Hi Everyone! Here is my entry. It's a models I sculpted some time ago. I wanted to make a naked versión of Nosferatu, taking some references of Schreck and Kinski in their performance of this character. It's a 1/10 scale bust, sculpted in Supersculpey Firm with alluminium wire structure. I hope you like it!!!

PD: I also have included a nice versión called "Who's there?" which show us a scaried Noseratu, waking up terrified because he has Heard a strange noise during the night

Have a great day!!

Eduardo

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* The Horror Character Contest Has Ended *

Chris Ellerby — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 14:21:56 +0000

The Horror Character Contest is now closed for entries.

The winning entry will be announced on Monday Feburary 24th, 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

Corpse Guard

Andy Milenovic — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 07:08:50 +0000

A demon that is resurrected into the corpse of mentally unstable criminals. It wanders around the cemetery devouring would be thieves and grave desecraters. Created in Zbrush and Procreate.

The Tennessee Tree Walker

Charley Murdoch — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 05:45:09 +0000

The Tennessee Tree Walker is a cryptid of my own design, spotted in the area surrounding The Great Smokey Mountains. Standing approximately 70 feet tall among the spruce firs, the vast majority of its height comes from it's long legs, with slender arms reaching to it's midpoint. It's exterior is tough and bark-like, allowing it to camouflage itself amongst the trees from a ground level view. It moves swiftly, quietly with a subtle creak. It's nature almost playful yet elusive to humans, almost stalking those who have claimed to see it. People make note of a feeling of being watched, and being disoriented by their surroundings seeming to change around them as the Tree Walker circles. It isn't until they look up they realise how closely they have been being watched.

This piece was sculpted using WED clay, and crafted at Don Lanning's D3 studio- Making Monsters 101. It is an original concept and design by myself, see below more photos including my original sketch of the idea. Inspired by the works of Trevor Henderson, Crypt TV's The Birch, and my love of all things paranormal!

C'ama-zo'tz

being.for.death@gmail.com — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 05:04:04 +0000

Hi! This is C'ama-zo'tz, I tought about it as an alien creature, some of my references were the Predator, the wrinkle faced bat, prehispanic headdresses, jewerly and sculptures, prehispanic bat glyphs and also the kapala skulls from Tibet traditions.

At the beggining C'ama-zo'tz was not a god, it was some sort of wild animal brought to Earth by the gods that came down from the stars millennia ago, it was an instrument to them due to its ability to see through time and space, so it was some kind of oracle capable of seeing cosmic knowledge. It was their source of wisdom and power. Over time the gods disappeared from Earth and the creature, left alone, began to be worshiped as a god himself. Due to its vision abilities and aggressiveness, he was related to the bat, a ferocious creature able to see through the veil of night and the unknown, so it was known as C'ama-zo'tz: "the beheading bat". It became an oracle to prehispanic shamans, it showed them visions and prophecies.

As prehispanic gods and shamans it wears lots of jewerly and ornaments, so as a bat looking mask made of jade and gold, on its forehead there is an eye made of shell, depicting the mystical third eye, also it has mayan bezotes (ornaments drilled into the face skin) as fangs and on his chin.

Hope you like my version of the C'ama-zo'tz! Thank you!! Awesome contest!

Mask color test:

Some references:

Nosferatu by Daniel Moy

Daniel Moy — Sun, 16 Feb 2020 21:23:59 +0000

I would like to share a personal project I have been working on. This character is based on the 1922 movie Nosferatu. I wanted to create a modern-day version of this character how I imagine how he would look on the big screen. Everything was created from scratch. Here is a brief break down of what it took to create him. I also included a video link. Thanks for looking!

https://vimeo.com/388871762

-Created a mesh that is setup for facial shapes -Created a Marvelous Designer costume which was manually retopologized
-UVs where created using UVlayout and Maya UV tools
-The head sculpt was created using Mudbox - Sculpted details were added to the costume using Mudbox
-Texture work was done with Mudbox and Photoshop and textures xyz.
-Wrap 3 was used to create FAC based facial shapes to help create a few expressions
-Arnold was used for lookdev and rendering the entire character
-Lighting was done using studio base hdri lights and AI lights
- The skin was created using the Standard Ai shader
-Xgen was used to create the eyebrows, eyelashes, peach fuzz and hand hairs, nose hairs. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Follow me at @moyboyart Follow me at@moyboyphotography https://www.artstation.com/moyboy

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Head of a Dragon

Darth Gabrel — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 03:21:05 +0000

This is one of my latest works made of modeling clay, no paint was used on the model, all the color is applied directly when building the model.https://youtu.be/-wRR0h3nFIs https://youtu.be/-wRR0h3nFIs

The nightmare of Gotfrei Von Ohnehoff

Darth Gabrel — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 03:11:40 +0000

This is my latest work made of modeling clay, started this one on Friday 7th and finished it midnight last night. No paint used in the model, all the color is applied directly when building. When turning off the lights, the skin glows, as seen in picture 2.https://youtu.be/i5J4bIiD2Ts

The Clown King

damonwilde1@mac.com — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 02:02:36 +0000

Digital Illustration - Used for a Theme Park Halloween Icon character in marketing materials.

the astonished Colombian werewolf

Oscar Julian daza Chica — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 01:20:08 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HiYtGMr__g&feature=youtu.be

Toxic Sea Monster

Lzb3 — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 00:37:16 +0000

I love the ocean and the mystery that there may be something unknown, undiscovered, and even a bit scary deep down in the depths. A lot of the creatures I create are influenced by this. I also have a drawing game I do with my son where we pick multiple animals to draw as one creature. This started while we were reading a lot about mythological Monsters. I call this creature the Toxic Sea Monster, partly because I love old Monster movies and also because we are having real issues that effect our Oceans and how this effects the animals that live there. I think Monster movies, creature creation, has been developed with some of these issues in min . What might humans create as they pollute the earth. It's a serious topic but creating these monsters is a fun way to process and Express the real fears we have. Instagram @artbylzb

Satan's Little Helper - MinoTauro

AsickCoFX — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 00:31:31 +0000

This was a creature concept I had to introduce into a future short film.. meanwhile this is my last entry into the contest. Let me know your thoughts please.

https://youtu.be/GMKpL4VzcZQ

FlyAway Humanoid Alien Creature

AsickCoFX — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 00:01:32 +0000

This Creature was created using a Morph suit , a clay sculpt cast into Latex and Teeth made of Super Sculpey , hair layered throughout the entire suit and Cables attached to the hands to control mouth movements. Nothing fancy but it gets the job done. Hope you guys enjoy my entries into the Contest..

https://youtu.be/lYqCfOyYJX8

Biomechanoid maker

Joana.m.melo — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 23:53:33 +0000

I was inspired by the work of H.R. Giger to create this design for the contest, not only because I'm a huge fan, but also in memory to the master and father of biomechanic art that would turn 80 years old this month.

Merman

Jim Bycznski — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 22:59:46 +0000

Here is my take on the Cabin in the Woods Merman. 1:1 Scale.

Krampus-Mixed media figure

Jason Leblanc — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 22:55:06 +0000

Here is my Krampus figure. I used Super Sculpey Original, along with some cloth for his robe and wood for his staff. He stands about 10 inches

Chiriakal

CynicMonsters — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 22:00:27 +0000

https://www.artstation.com/cynic84