hello again.
i haven't done much recently as i have been searching for a job and with christmas present searching. however i have managed to sculpt a few things so here they are.

finding nemo
"hey there mr grumpy gills"

first off i apologize for the background of this picture, like all my work this is made from super sculpey. the reason i made this that i was watching finding nemo and it came to my favorite scene, so i thought that i should make it. it took 1 day to make marlin and 2 days for dory.

parsley the lion figure

i made parsley the lion for my girlfriend as part of her christmas presents, it didn't take too long as it's only small but i am quite happy with the detailing.

if you have any questions about sculpting please leave a comment and i will reply as best i can.

cheers
alex

CLONE WARS WICKET

I was watching Star Wars the Clone Wars series 3 the other day and saw the episode with chewbacca and it got me wondering, what would an ewok look like? so I grabbed a picture off the internet of the most loved ewok, wicket. i decided that i would only make a bust as sculpting the body would drive me nuts and i only wanted to spend a day making it. i quickly drew a slightly simplified design.

once I was happy with the design i got my materials and started sculpting the face, this took the best part of 5 hours. I used super sculpey with metal ball bearings for eyes. I attached each clump of hair individually. once that was done I made the rest of the head in the same way. when everything was cooked i used green stuff to add some finer detail on his hood, fur on the ears and to fill in some of the gap on the face.

when everything had set i painted it using games workshop acrylics. from start to finish this took 15 hours and is roughly 3 inches tall (not including base pictured below).

  

star wars clone wars wicket

thank you for looking

alex

old work part 3

 As a model maker I, of course, started with games workshop miniatures. The model on the left is based on one of my favorite drawings (below). i had to build the legs and lower torso from scratch and heavily convert the rest. Although i made this figure about four years ago, i am still proud of it as I got quite a lot of detail into it.

this is another sculpt that is based on a drawing. it is wolverine being eaten by a t-rex. i wanted to do this for ages but didn't know how to start. then i got the idea to get a t-rex toy and convert it, but all of the ones that i found never quite fit the bill. then one day i went to hastings and went into a little model store and my girlfriend called me over and showed me this facial reconstruction kit of a rex. it consisted of a skull and tools. i made the rex out of milliput and wolverine out of super sculpey (my first time using this material).

 I designed this yoda whilst on holiday in greece. when i got back i put it with all my other used pads and doodles and forgot about it for a few years. One day i was rooting through my drawings and i found it. the following week i was having a star wars day with my friends so i decided to make it. i only had a little bit of sculpey so i got a jam jar lid and started sculpting.

i made this ork bust because i was bored and had some clay to hand. it was a bit of a quick job to make. i think i made it in a day including painting.

this was one of my last games workshop figures that i made. The original model was just a plain dreadnaught that came in a box set. I then proceeded to completely destroy the poor thing and broke out the green stuff. this took about a week to build and i am particularly happy with the little nurglings sitting on it.



for a better image of the dreadnaught, please check out
http://www.coolminiornot.com/artist/yeta.123/orderby/Descending?browseid=2025166

cannimation

http://vimeo.com/31566327

this is just a quick post, i want to show you my entry into a red bull competition. it is inspired by steampunk and frankenstein. i hope you like it.

alex

work continued

Hello again.
last time i ended with the money tree. here are a few pics from it.
 this was the biggest stop-motion production that the university had seen that involved two sets roughly 1 meter square each. the forest was fairly straight forward but time consuming, but it was the house set that tom (co-director) and i really had fun. we put as many references in as we could. these included a pinup darth vader poster, apollo G poster that has the rocket from "A Grand Day Out" (I still want to make this into a real poster) and pacman pizza boxes. we spent some time putting a lot of detail into the props, even though it would never be seen. an example of this were the bills that littered the floor that i wrote on computer and then shrank to scale.

for full detail of the production have a look at this:
http://tommygrainger.blogspot.com/




this is a steampunk robot that i made in my first year of uni. unfortunately it completely failed as a puppet as you can probably tell but it was my first attempt. i did not mind that much as we never filmed due to time limits. despite its failings it is still one of my favorite creations and has been displayed at Stoke Your Fires Animation Festival. it is made of Styrofoam and bits from the pound shop. whilst i was building this i was also building another puppet and a large transport vehicle (pictured below) as well as help build an exterior pub set at roughly 1/6th scale.

this next item was really my first prosthetic and i made it for my friends birthday. it is my twoface costume. i made it by using a mannequin head as a base. i then sculpted on my likeness so that when i sculpted the prosthetic it would hold some of my features.

i then made a mould out of plaster. then i pasted in some latex that, when dry, i painted. i also added a faint eyebrow using my own leg hair. for the suit i just cut two suits in half and stuck them together (i also sanded one of the sides as some more detail). i also dyed my hair which was a lot harder to do than i thought it would be. i have to say though that pretty much everyone put quite a lot of effort into their costumes. i have no idea how we found time. and only the party boy himself (who went as judge dredd) immersed himself completely into his character, going to the extent of going up to a couple of policemen and proclaiming "I AM THE LAW" at the top of his voice (that is still my ringtone to this day.
i wore this costume again to win 1st prize in a costume competition.

thats all for now, thank you for looking at my blog
alex

My First Post

well this is my first post and i will begin by saying that i am a model maker and sculptor. i mainly make maquettes (small statues) but i can make pretty much anything my wallet will allow.

this is piper from blue sky's "Robots", i made this as part of my course at staffordshire university. we were all given a robot to do and i have to be honest, she would not have been my first choice as anyone out there who has tried to paint something yellow will tell you, it's hell. however, she is one of my favorite sculpts as i made it as movie accurate as possible (i even made the engine separately so it would "hover" within her body like it does in the movie).







the second part of the requirements was to make a building from the film, for this we were partnered up. luckily i was partnered up with someone as stickler for detail as i am (tom grainger) and we were given one of the main buildings, the "Gunk's Greasy Spoon". the picture really doesn't do anything for it but it isn't just a box with a tube stuck on. it even has an interior as we finished early and i was looking for other things to do. i also made the two pigeons and rubbish bin.





















this was a commission that i did for a family member after he cut his head open in greece and then had his head x-rayed. as can be seen in the photo on the left i used super sculpey, sculpey firm and green stuff.


finally these two i did for myself. the first is barrel from "nightmare before christmas", i made him because he is one of my favorites but you cant get a decent figure of him. the second is clayface which is copied off of a picture that i found on the internet whilst searching for help on arkham asylum.

i will also show you this http://vimeo.com/24213370 that i worked on as my final project at uni along with may jowdh, tom grainger and jon colenso. i made the badgers and helped with the sets and props. i also had to make a man puppet's body from scratch in half a day as the main puppet snapped during filming and we did not have a back up.

i will be posting more of my previous work later on and hopefully some new commissions.

thank you for looking at my blog
alex