now that the show is airing i can finally post some of the stuff i worked on! joy! ok, so when i first got to shadow machine i was asked to modify some pre-existing resin casts that would become props for the show. i accomplished that by using a bit of magi-sculpt (a two part sculpting apoxy) and forming it over the pre-existing casts. when the magi-sculpt hardened i went over each piece with some primer and painted them up. so here are a few pictures of that.
the magi-sculpt dries grey so you can tell what parts i sculpted over.
a lot of my time was spent applying this mossy sludge to different forms to be floor covering for swampy sets. we literally went through gallons and gallons of this stuff. i like work where i can get my hands dirty so i had a lot of fun slopping that sludge around. unfortunately i didn't take very many pictures but you see it in just about every outdoor shot in the show.
i also spent a lot of time filling tiny glass jars with colored water...
...painting (SO MANY!) resin cast book spines and little creatures (already sculpted before i got there)...
...that were placed into even more tiny glass jars...
...and then placed on a set. this final picture is kinda crappy but looks kinda cool i think, but it shows a few of those props getting set up. (not my set by the way). there were a lot more props and elements i worked on that i unfortunately didn't manage to take pictures of so this is pretty much all i have for the moment. there were some cool skulls i modified and various other spooky things that went on the walls and shelves (why didn't i take pictures!). but i do have some good pictures of a few sets i made so i'll be posting those soon.
2 comments:
:) man these are so cool. the hills look very nice, moody and convincingly sludgy.
all the dressing on the completed set looks great. is that the final lighting in the set as well?
haha, no, that picture was taken with no lighting at all actually. i pushed the shadows to show detail. but it is a nice spooky effect.
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