Sad Bob the Builder

I had this idea a while ago when all the stop-motion companies were shutting down or moving, i thought  what would happen to jobless puppets which led to Bob the Bum. a year or two later when i was looking in a charity shop i saw a muck toy and it jogged my memory. toy in hand i looked for bob but i couldn't find one so i sculpted him instead. one small detail that i was quite pleased with was his lighter in his belt. anyway, i had also recently bought a heat gun and a precision screwdriver set, so i dismantled muck, melted him in places, wrecked his tracks and put his mouth on upside-down. i also added eyelids to finish the unhappy look and gave him a new paint job and props. i also added some water effects and plants to make it look like he had been there for a while.

Polly

I absolutely loved the way Pirates in an adventure with scientists looked, however I did not like the the collectable polly that came out shortly after. multiple reasons really, the cost, size and the only one i had seen in person was a bit cockeyed. so i thought i would make one myself. i was so pleased with the result that i put off painting it, but i eventually came round to it and had it all set up when my cat knocked it off the table breaking her wings, neck and beak as well as basically atomizing some of the feather detail. after much weeping i fixed it and painted it. i was then going to make a pirate captain in the same scale but that will have to wait.
so here it is in all her glory

oh, and forgive my paint work on the globe, didn't plan ahead and i sort of ran out of room.

rye DIY part 2

after seeing what i made for pat, another friend from work wanted one. i thought i could use the practice so i agreed. however i did not have much time as i would soon be leaving to live in Bristol. this hindered me a bit as i could not refine the sculpt as much as i would have liked but he seemed happy with it and that is what matters.

Rye DIY

my most recent model is based on a friend from work, i think it went quite well.

no new work

it's been a while since my last post and i really haven't done much in the way of sculpting mostly because of my new job. however i thought i would put up some pictures of some older work that has yet to be shown.

this was my first attempt at pumpkin carving of an abc robot.

this is the small set for one of my animations, these are just light tests but it is still one of my favorite sets that i have made. It is made of foam board that i cut and bent into a tunnel, i then coated the walls in pva glue and sand and the floor is made from pva mixed with shards of plaster then coated in water effect.

this is a stop motion puppet that i made of a victorian soldier. the skull (pictured left) has a hinged jaw that could be move using a bolt that resides in the center of the skull. i used an allen key to move it and i hid the hole in the head with his hair. his face was made of a thin skin of latex (pictured below).

this is the sculpt for my two-face costume. I first sculpted a rough likeness of myself (left), i then started the final sculpt. this was the first sculpt that I didn't use references for as i had an idea of what I wanted it to look like.

this is a commission sculpt that i did for a young graphic artist, it is based on his comic book character Brocolli Man. he had a rough idea of what he wanted with it and gave me a quick drawing but i was given quite a bit of artistic license. as you can see he was pretty happy with it and it took about ten minutes until he stopped swearing.

thanks for looking
alex