Cbstudios
Sr Member
Is this the right section? Is a mask a prop or a costume? Has god forsaken us? Whats your favourite scary movie? I have the answers to only one of those questions.
As a long time collector of Scream and Ghostface masks, I've always wanted a proper "The Killer" mask replica to round out my set. I've got the official Fun World ones, but I've never seen a replica that I really liked.
This is the look I really wanted. "Hello Drew" has stuck in my mind since I first saw the movie, so off I went with a big lump of claymate oil based clay.
I don't have a whole lot of work in progress images as I tend to zone out as I start, but I'd roughly scaled the mask in the above image to full size, and stuck it down to my board, this gave me a base shape and proportions to work from, and I built up from there
After 4 or so hours of blocking out, checking reference and using an EU mold mask and a official Smiley mask as visual reference, we had something close to what I wanted.
A quick side-by-side showed that the eyes and the jaw still needed some tweaking. Every single reference photo of this mask looks different, so I had to pick one look and go with that.
If you've stared at the screen used mask as long as I have, you'll notice that the mouth of the mask isn't rubber like the standard Ghostface masks, but is the same fabric as the eye mesh. I've decided to sculpt the mouth solid with the little Funworld breathing hole at the top, so it will visually match the licenced pieces. I may do a mesh one for screen accuracy, but this way I can have either or.
Sculpting finished, and surface smoothed and refined. Next up he sleeps with the Hydrocal fishes.
Time for a splash of that ol' white.
And then the exciting part, I ran a cleaner pull in some spare latex, and got to see how it looked in rubber. This shot next to a busted 2000's smiley I'm whitening and repairing shows the overall scale and size well. I'm super happy with this.
and finally, some shots of my test casts. Working out the dwell time for the thickness I want is important, as I want these to feel as legit as possible.
Next post will hopefully have some painted whites and blacks, and maybe even some hood construction.
An important thing to note is that I'm NOT making these to sell, this is purely a personal project so no blanks or finished masks are gonna leave my workshop.
stay tuned for more!
As a long time collector of Scream and Ghostface masks, I've always wanted a proper "The Killer" mask replica to round out my set. I've got the official Fun World ones, but I've never seen a replica that I really liked.
This is the look I really wanted. "Hello Drew" has stuck in my mind since I first saw the movie, so off I went with a big lump of claymate oil based clay.
I don't have a whole lot of work in progress images as I tend to zone out as I start, but I'd roughly scaled the mask in the above image to full size, and stuck it down to my board, this gave me a base shape and proportions to work from, and I built up from there
After 4 or so hours of blocking out, checking reference and using an EU mold mask and a official Smiley mask as visual reference, we had something close to what I wanted.
A quick side-by-side showed that the eyes and the jaw still needed some tweaking. Every single reference photo of this mask looks different, so I had to pick one look and go with that.
If you've stared at the screen used mask as long as I have, you'll notice that the mouth of the mask isn't rubber like the standard Ghostface masks, but is the same fabric as the eye mesh. I've decided to sculpt the mouth solid with the little Funworld breathing hole at the top, so it will visually match the licenced pieces. I may do a mesh one for screen accuracy, but this way I can have either or.
Sculpting finished, and surface smoothed and refined. Next up he sleeps with the Hydrocal fishes.
Time for a splash of that ol' white.
And then the exciting part, I ran a cleaner pull in some spare latex, and got to see how it looked in rubber. This shot next to a busted 2000's smiley I'm whitening and repairing shows the overall scale and size well. I'm super happy with this.
and finally, some shots of my test casts. Working out the dwell time for the thickness I want is important, as I want these to feel as legit as possible.
Next post will hopefully have some painted whites and blacks, and maybe even some hood construction.
An important thing to note is that I'm NOT making these to sell, this is purely a personal project so no blanks or finished masks are gonna leave my workshop.
stay tuned for more!
