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 For the fog witch, I start with roughing out the form in styrofoam and clay. You can see that I have it on a simple stand.
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 Here’s the basic sculpture, without the ears, and the drawing Michael Schupbach, the designer, gave me. I’m pretty pleased by the resemblance to the drawing.
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 I’ve added in the ear armature here. I initially thought I would do the ears separately and then add them, but changed my mind. I have to have an armature because the clay would droop sadly and fall off the sculpture otherwise.
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 Now here’s where things get interesting. We got feedback from the director that the character needed to be less angry and more childlike and inquisitive. So I adjusted the sculpture like so.
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 One of the things that fascinates me is how much of a difference a tiny change can make. I’ve removed the wrinkles, given it less of a rosebud mouth and more of whimsical bent. It looks like a profoundly different character.
I sculpted heads of two other charactersalso, but you just get the process shots of this one.
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Fracking cool. Love following the process. Thanks.
My pleasure!
I happened to be listening to some spooky Halloween music when I read through this article… Hearing that music while looking at that face certainly put me in a different mood!
OMG, you are amazing.
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Wow! The original sculpt with the rosebud mouth immediately put me in mind of actress Linda Hunt. I love it!
Very neat. It’s interesting how a few little tweaks makes the ghost head much less menacing.
Nice to see the workings of a a different type of sculptor to my type. Fascinating and a really great ‘feel’ to the sculpt already.