The Death Curse
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OMG. Freaking out...:eek...Okay, please allow me to become Mr. Fanboy for a few minutes and offer a short explanation on the origin of this piece:
This sculpture was created for a short FX shot in Terminator 2: Judgment Day by Mike Trcic, one of my favorite FX artists and a huge inspiration. Trcic also designed and sculpted the infamous "Donut Head" T-1000 puppet, as well as many other various props and prosthetics for use in T2. His design work is referenced often throughout The Winston Effect. (That is a great read for those of you who haven't bought it!)
To the FX crew, this design was apparently dubbed "Splash Head"...This piece is supposedly cast directly from the Splash Head movie mold, which still survives in what appears to be a very fragile condition. According to the man who pulled this piece, he obtained the mold from "a friend" who once worked for Winston Studios and had no room for a few larger molds they had stored, including an Arnold Stage 5 makeup mold, a "Biker cop" T-1000 full head design, and the Splash Head. In 2007, this guy pulled two resin castings from each mold for Ebay, and this one was listed as the first "cleanup casting." I couldn't afford any of his busts back then, but luckily I got a second chance at this one a few weeks ago. Its sister casting has since been cleaned up, repaired, and modified, but this one exhibits trapped dirt and debris from years of storage, and remains completely untrimmed and unmodified. :cheers
The one problem this piece has is that it is cast INSANELY thin. I can't imagine how it has survived two lengthy overseas shipments. It's seriously nothing short of a miracle. There are already two broken areas on the lower right shoulder, two or three cracks near the base, and a small concave area near one edge of the "liquid metal" surface that is quite literally as thin as paper. I will need to reinforce this bust with more resin immediately just to assure that it doesn't fall over and shatter into a thousand pieces. (...:sick)
Anyway, here he is!:
Thanks for looking and cheers,
Ryan
This sculpture was created for a short FX shot in Terminator 2: Judgment Day by Mike Trcic, one of my favorite FX artists and a huge inspiration. Trcic also designed and sculpted the infamous "Donut Head" T-1000 puppet, as well as many other various props and prosthetics for use in T2. His design work is referenced often throughout The Winston Effect. (That is a great read for those of you who haven't bought it!)
To the FX crew, this design was apparently dubbed "Splash Head"...This piece is supposedly cast directly from the Splash Head movie mold, which still survives in what appears to be a very fragile condition. According to the man who pulled this piece, he obtained the mold from "a friend" who once worked for Winston Studios and had no room for a few larger molds they had stored, including an Arnold Stage 5 makeup mold, a "Biker cop" T-1000 full head design, and the Splash Head. In 2007, this guy pulled two resin castings from each mold for Ebay, and this one was listed as the first "cleanup casting." I couldn't afford any of his busts back then, but luckily I got a second chance at this one a few weeks ago. Its sister casting has since been cleaned up, repaired, and modified, but this one exhibits trapped dirt and debris from years of storage, and remains completely untrimmed and unmodified. :cheers
The one problem this piece has is that it is cast INSANELY thin. I can't imagine how it has survived two lengthy overseas shipments. It's seriously nothing short of a miracle. There are already two broken areas on the lower right shoulder, two or three cracks near the base, and a small concave area near one edge of the "liquid metal" surface that is quite literally as thin as paper. I will need to reinforce this bust with more resin immediately just to assure that it doesn't fall over and shatter into a thousand pieces. (...:sick)
Anyway, here he is!:
Thanks for looking and cheers,
Ryan
