1) do ya have a full pic of that skeksis ya made, and have ya done any other jhc related characters?
2) do you have any tips for using castilene?(ie: sculpting detaile dprototype figures) I am extremely interested if any fan out there has used Castilene to make a JHC related character, Muppet or creature shop.
3) How the heck does one make articulation? The Palisades prototypes appear to be articulated...and I was just wondering what the secret recipe is.
I'm still working on the Skeksis. I do have a full picture of the work-in-progress but I haven't put it online yet... I'll try to get to it one of these days. The only other JHC character I've sculpted is Kermit, which I did way back in the summer of '98... way before the Palisades stuff, and when there wasn't a decent, readily available Kermit figure or statue around. So I had to make my own. My old avatar was a pic of that. It's no longer on my site because I don't feel it's a good representation of my work anymore, plus the Palisades one is soooo much better. Kermit was the second "serious" sculpt I did, Gizmo was the first and is still on my website because I'm still amazed at how well that one turned out. The fur texture and ears could use some work but the pose and expression are perfect (IMO).
If you have a non-flourescent desklamp and a handful of sculpting tools, then you're all ready to use castilene! Use the desklamp to keep a portion of the castilene pliable, and just sculpt like you would with any other clay. Eventually you may want to look into getting a waxer/hot sculpting tool (mine cost about $100) which is like a heated pen so you can carve and slice and smooth the castilene.
I would advise getting the hard castilene (it comes in soft, medium, and hard.) I got a brick of the medium and a brick of the hard, and I'm not going to bother with the medium anymore. It gets soft too quickly from the heat of your hands.
Other than that, just grab a clump of it and go to work! I studied computer animation in school, so all my sculpting abilities were largely self-taught.
I'm attempting articulation for the first time with the skeksis. Simple articulation, it's all swivel, post-and-hole.
oh, and it's not in scale with the 12" Gelflings, the thing would have to be frickin' huge! At least 24" (and that's cheating the scale, a LOT!) I would have been very impressed and amazed if Sideshow had gone through with their plans to make them that size.
Hope that helps, beaker... and anyone else who read through all that!
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