Stan Winston School of character art.

Last night I was just floating around on youtube, came across a really inspirational playlist of 37 videos highlighting areas of expertise at Stan Winston School of character art. For anyone who’s interested in sculpture, creating costumes, facial costumes, live molds, monsters of any kind for movies, traditional special effects and some kickass animatronics. go check them out, hope it gives someone a bit of creative flare. 🙂

below is one of my more favourites out of the playlist as Im a huge fan of maquettes. enjoy

https://www.stanwinstonschool.com/

Jaws jr.

Casually put a huge great white shark fin in my mothers pond, hope she won’t mind haha.

Awesome prop design by Harrison Krix: Big Daddy Costume

Been looking at big props. I want to make some huge theme park size props over the summer and stumbled across this guys creations. Seriously impressive stuff. You can see his development etc on his site, go check him out. VolpinProps, Big Daddy costume

Egg

Had a spare 20mins. Egg got this guy in the eye. Haha.

ClancyToy’s Series.

Finally finished, sculpted, cooked and packaged. enjoy 🙂

‘Ideas Dispenser 1000’

I made this ‘Ideas Dispenser’ which randomly picks major elements for a creation recipe. All sculptures from the ClancyToy’s series were formed using this dispenser method.

 

Toy 05: Lionfish Button Factory

My fifth and final installment in this series. The lionfish toxic button making factory. As you can guess the words I had to combine were, ‘lionfish’ and ‘buttons’ and had to be loosely based on a toy which opens up in someway, kind of like a poly-pocket or unfoldable base. The idea is that you can see sections of the button factory in motion.

Toy 04: Buzz Brain

The fourth installment in my latest project on creating bizarre toys, Here I had to combine ‘human brain’ with the ‘moon’ and had to be an educational toy. The result was an interactive Buzz Aldrin brain, the idea is that sections of the brain would light up and you would hear a quote from Apollo 11 mission. The quote or sound would be specifically engineered with subject matter towards one of the human senses. On hearing the sound you must tap the section of the brain which relates to human senses that the content is portraying. If you get the sections wrong too many times, then the Visor will shut on the helmet and ‘game over’.

i.e. “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” – Neil Armstrong would require you to tap the section of the brain which controls ‘Spiritual Awareness’. Thus learning what sections of the brain control which functions and in-accordance learning some history about the Apollo 11 mission whilst being a fun and engaging toy.

Toy 03: Sushi Chef Trash Can

Toy 3, this one had to be themed with knives and a dustbin and had to be a wind-up toy.

Resulted in this funky creation, the idea is you wind up the bin lid on the back and the 6 arms would start slashing about. and make sushi!

Toy 03-05 teaser.

Teaser for my next 3 toys, 2 are completed and the 3rd is nearly done. I will be blogging them soon, stay tuned. 😉