I'm taking my first steps into sculpting and mold making for this project. I have experience with fiberglass, bondo, painting and essentially building realistic props from cardboard, so I'm hoping I can work well with this project.
So, a very dear friend loves Gremlins and her favourite is Daffy, the messy crazy eyed mogwai from the second film. I plan to sculpt a life size version, get it molded, cast it, paint it and then fur it. Quite a tall order, but as my first real venture into mold making, I'm hopeful I can make back the costs by offering them for sale, which will hopefully open a new lucrative door to this hobby for me.
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I want to make the head screw on to give some limited neck posing, and I want to make the eyes poseable too by creating a base mold for the face and then a detailed mask that slots over the eyeballs allowing them to be free moving.
I've started work on the armature. The lighting is pretty bad, but next time I won't take them at night.
The arms go from fingertip to fingertip. I used aluminum mesh for the ears. The centre wires will act as veins, although I think I'm going to have to remove the wire I threaded through to keep it secure as it's way too thick. Next, I'll cover it in foil and masking tape to pad out for the sculpting clay.
So, a very dear friend loves Gremlins and her favourite is Daffy, the messy crazy eyed mogwai from the second film. I plan to sculpt a life size version, get it molded, cast it, paint it and then fur it. Quite a tall order, but as my first real venture into mold making, I'm hopeful I can make back the costs by offering them for sale, which will hopefully open a new lucrative door to this hobby for me.
Reference material:
I want to make the head screw on to give some limited neck posing, and I want to make the eyes poseable too by creating a base mold for the face and then a detailed mask that slots over the eyeballs allowing them to be free moving.
I've started work on the armature. The lighting is pretty bad, but next time I won't take them at night.
The arms go from fingertip to fingertip. I used aluminum mesh for the ears. The centre wires will act as veins, although I think I'm going to have to remove the wire I threaded through to keep it secure as it's way too thick. Next, I'll cover it in foil and masking tape to pad out for the sculpting clay.
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