What's On Your Workbench? (Summer 2020)
Chris Ellerby
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What's On Your Workbench?
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Nothing crazy just painting
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Oh gosh I love diorama I would like to try someday!0
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Getting dear Aslan prepped for the staging of Prince Caspian in the spring. Currently filling out the mane with EVA/L200 and a new paint job.
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I’ve been working on a stilt monster costume for the Gore Woods haunt in West Unity, Ohio. Head and body, and legs are constructed from interlocking foam mats and upholstery foam (along with a few African porcupine quills) stilts are from digilegs.com - I will also be using a set of crutches for forelimbs. Dress rehearsal is this Thursday!
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This is on my Bench, decently comfortable with my animatronic eye build. It was decently difficult learning Fusion 360 to end up with a final product. Still have a little left to fix with the pulleys. But overall decently happy with my first project completed after taking a course on Stan Winston School of Character Arts. Next moving to the Jaw an Lip Mechanisms...
https://youtu.be/FP-M2k0945c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5subbsT2-w
You can read about my journey on my blog.
https://www.merlinsfolio.com/blog
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Just a quick sculpt while waiting for a mold to cure...... 4 -
I’ve been a bit busy here are some of my builds. Oh and credit where credits due... we have the best puppet teacher EVER! 😜
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Working on my Voldemort cosplay for Halloween, can't wait to finish it!
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Im currently working on my first monster suit! The head was sculpted and casted in latex and poly foam the body is fabricated out of EVA and Upholstery foam, please let me know what you think!
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Been worrying on a Bride of Frankenstein prosthetics this past week. Very happy how it came out.😊
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So many great projects! It truly is inspiring to see what everyone is creating.
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Xl jack n the box4 -
Working on an EXPLORERS II teaser trailer and poster for fun. Who needs a kitchen table over quarantine anyway.
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Love it! Making a studio scale model of Thunder Road from The Explorers is on my todo list! Such an amazing film.
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Thanks Chris!Tonight I’m shooting the dolly and crane up cam move. We’ll see if it works, then I want to composite the live action gang rebuilding the ship in a time lapse. Who knows, could turn out horrible. Haha
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Hi I'm working on my first full Resin Kit 1:6 scale. It shows a small diorama centaur vs sandworm. At first i created a sandworm but I changed to a sandworm and half men to give him more expression.
It will shows that that the centaur is trapped in the sand in the nest from the sandworm/men.
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Working on a series of items for our Nightmare at Sea Halloween party! Mostly paper mache and cardboard props, but spending more time on actual costumes with foam clay, wire, etc.
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what his is on my table 😉 I still have a ways to go But that’s okay 😉
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my plague doctor costume. Custom sculpt mask out of cardboard and cosplay foam clay.
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The clay sculpt
Mother Mold, Silicon Mold, Plastic Cast
3D printed hands designed in SolidWorks
Musie the Animatronic Robot!2 -
Hello everyone!It's such a pleasure for me to be part of this amazing and creative community of people! I'm currently working on a vampire dude
I wanted to get in a spooky mood in regards to coming up Halloween. I'm just at the start of my sculpting journey in my life and Stan Winston School is a great inspiration and helpful guide with all courses and videos. I enjoy so much to work with WED clay and basic sculpting tools. Let's see what future brings! Take care folks xx
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Les Grossman cosplay.) Homemade fat-suit and a hairy chest. Hairy arms and other minor stuff in work.
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I have so much to learn! I felt inspired and watched how to make a nose prosthetic video with gelatin and it helped a lot about understand the process.
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An upgrade for a robot cuddly toy.
It becomes a dancing bird some day...2 -
Astraea, my first sculpture, she's 13 inches high
sculpt in chavant nsp
Mold in dragon skin 10 and plasti paste
Cast in dragon skin fx
I'm working on patches work, next paint and eyes!
its me on the picture and as you can see I'm realy proud of my work 😁 Its my first personal project!
Sorry for my bad english ❤️
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https://youtu.be/0yJXC9KzfLs
Added Voice Input and Antennae to my Animatronic Head. My eye mechanism is not working the best due to tightness issues. Wrote some software that will allow me to move the jaw mechanism based on the high and low audio wave forms.2 -
This is my Scarecrow Latex mask I've been working on. I watched the series with Tim Martin and it's been a tremendous wealth of knowledge during this process. I did a quick and dirty mold a few years ago, but I never loved the detail of the sculpt or the quality of the mask or mold. This time around, I felt a lot more confident going in it. I had to pull the mask a second time because the first pull was thin and had holes in various areas due to poor latex brushing on my part. This second time around, I was more thorough with brushing in the latex and adjusted my dwell time from 20ish to 33 minutes, and it was perfect. A couple holes to patch and areas to touch up from the back due to epoxy repair of the hydracal mold, but other than that, I am very pleased with how this is turning out. Keep up the great work, everybody! (In the second photo, you can see the character concept sketch on the bulletin board behind the mask. I got much closer on resemblance than I thought I would.)
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Frankenstein head sculpted in bass wood and finished in acrylic paints! Always loved the original Frankenstein played by Boris Karloff.. Happy to finally finish this bad boy!
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Not so much as a bench but the floor still working on the steampunk, plague doctor crow fusion1
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Wed clay Orangutan character for my sons short film idea.
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