Handmade Horrors

Here a few shots of props and sets from my latest project, “Bygone Behemoth”. Please click to see larger versions.

How To Make A Monster

As I’m wrapping up principal photography on my new stop motion short, “Bygone Behemoth,” I thought it might be interesting to show the process by which the main character was designed and constructed.

“Bygone Behemoth” tells the story of a washed-up B-movie monster called Al, a relic of the past akin to the fantastic creatures brought to life by special effects artists like Ray Harryhausen and Willis O’Brien.  As such, I decided to create Al using the old-fashioned latex/foam build-up method pioneered by Marcel Delgado.

It all began with the sketch– a rough blueprint of how I envisioned the final puppet, both frontal and profile.

More after the jump…

I’d rather have a bottle in front of me…

…Than a frontal lobotomy.

This is a shot glass I created, based on the mascot for Birra Moretti, an Italian lager. There’s something ironic about the fact that a guy on a shot glass is drinking a beer.  Perhaps next time I’ll sculpt a beer stein featuring a fellow taking a shot?

Anti-Jack-O-Lanterns

Sometimes adding is more interesting than carving.  I took a couple pumpkins, sculpted faces in oil-clay, then painted with acrylics to match.  Now if I only had some candy corn….