justy
Well-Known Member
Finally getting around to posting about this project...
After researching and gathering reference images/video, I had cut and assembled most of the box last year over the holidays, and started carving out the patterns on the inside edges before temporarily shelving the project to make time for some more ambitious freelance projects. At the same time I started animating the riddles for the screen I had planned. Now, not quite a year later, I'm back at it. Hopefully posting about it will keep me accountable and keep the momentum going.
Here's some of the rare stills I took whilst working. I've tried to be more diligent this time around.
The most time consuming part was carving out little diamonds along the inner edges. It's not screen accurate but gave some needed detail without a whole lot of skill involved. Just patience.
After toying with the idea of using foam for the top artwork, which was promptly abandoned as it shrank too much, I decided to do it in Sculpey.
This was fun to do, as well as new; I'm not too familiar working with clay. I found out that after baking it was more brittle than I'd hoped for. I'm not sure if it was an incorrect baking time or if I'd rolled it too think to start with. Or both. Either way, with a bit of glue I was able to put Humpty together again. There were plenty more breaks that weren't photographed.
To give some much needed stability I glued the whole thing to some poster board with spray adhesive and trimmed the extra paper off. This helped a ton with the fragility. Next, to paint the thing.
After researching and gathering reference images/video, I had cut and assembled most of the box last year over the holidays, and started carving out the patterns on the inside edges before temporarily shelving the project to make time for some more ambitious freelance projects. At the same time I started animating the riddles for the screen I had planned. Now, not quite a year later, I'm back at it. Hopefully posting about it will keep me accountable and keep the momentum going.
Here's some of the rare stills I took whilst working. I've tried to be more diligent this time around.
The most time consuming part was carving out little diamonds along the inner edges. It's not screen accurate but gave some needed detail without a whole lot of skill involved. Just patience.
After toying with the idea of using foam for the top artwork, which was promptly abandoned as it shrank too much, I decided to do it in Sculpey.
This was fun to do, as well as new; I'm not too familiar working with clay. I found out that after baking it was more brittle than I'd hoped for. I'm not sure if it was an incorrect baking time or if I'd rolled it too think to start with. Or both. Either way, with a bit of glue I was able to put Humpty together again. There were plenty more breaks that weren't photographed.
To give some much needed stability I glued the whole thing to some poster board with spray adhesive and trimmed the extra paper off. This helped a ton with the fragility. Next, to paint the thing.
Here is the build as of now:
