grinchys star wars props

That's my favourite part of the movies the creature fx are always top notch, love wolf to, I started a sculpt of him a few years ago, never finished it sadly,
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Thats so awesome man, Sideshow has a life size bust of him on display at SDCC, but its around 2 grand, very tempting, I think it says a lot about a person if they have a life size snarling predator head in their home

I like yours in the way that it looks like a design piece or something from part way through the process at a creature shop for the film. I've got a crew mug from that film, it was being shot in Vancouver around the time I was in school there. On the crew mug it just says "AVP2"

If you did decide to complete it down the road, is there any issues with the materials drying up etc? It looks amazing.

Cheers mate, I've seen the sideshow version, very nice piece, your crew mug sounds good, this one I did was around halfway done and I went on holiday came back and it had fallen over on the face smooshing the sculpture, bugger!
This clay was WED clay the same stuff the Disney people use, I use it a lot, you have to cover it when not working as its water based clay and will dry out, but its great stuff

Haven't posted my work in a while,. this is based on the movie Constantine, the half head demon, nearly done just got to make a base for it, heres the bust starting from reference pic, through sculpture to finished bust

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rough sculpture
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a bit more work
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final sculpture ready for moulding
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from the sculpture I made a two part plaster mould, then I popped it apart, cleaned out the clay and the mould was ready for rubber

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heres the mould skinned with rubber, after this I clamp the two halves together and fill it with a two part soft expanding foam, I then pop the mould apart and pull the foam head out, trim the seam and get it ready for paint

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here's the head with paintjob about halfway done


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then the head with teeth put in, the client wanted pointy teeth adding

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i'll take better pics tomorrow

Your work blows me away Ian

I particularly enjoy seeing the full process

Ian, absolutely love it mate

Thanks for posting brother

Cheers guys, glad you like to see the work that goes into each one, the process is similar for all of them, clay sculpture mould then rubber head and paint

Great job Ian. Like the others said. It's nice to see the process you have to go thru.

Cheers mate, heres another one of mine, a kitbash of various things, the alien on a pedestal base was a model kit, everything else I put together, the scale was off, the alien here is huge compared to the marine, but I was just having fun with it
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The marine started out as a pound land soldier, I scratch built his armour and pulse rifle using milliput, one of my favourite parts of the build was the rifle, working at a small scale for a change was a challenge

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I went with a brown colour for the alien, the base itself was an old clock that I ripped the guts out of and repurposed as the base, the greeblies and detailing all came from my spares box, the decals were water slide ones, the alien eggs were just old plastic eggs detailed with milliput

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Your work is amazing dude

Thanks mate, your stuff is brilliant to, very impressed

Here's a few more projects I've been working on, first up an ATST, done for a friend, a simple weathering job, couldn't get the thing to stand unaided unfortunately, it did have a great sculpt but the engineering was bad
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next up a bit of a repaint on a Jason bust, my friend bought it from the states and while he liked it he wanted the shading altering a bit which I did, hope you can tell in the pics, first up how I got it
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then after I had added more shading
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next up a work in progress, a ghoulie from the movie of the same name, nearly done, just need to add his pointy teeth and lighten him up a tad
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Ian, love to see your work mate great stuff

cheers mate ,
finished the ghoulie
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That's awesome. It reminds me of a Gremlin.

Cheers Clint, yeah one of the eighties rubber monsters, they all looked similar, gremlins ghoulies, critters, love them all

Damn , I really love your work Ian

You should be making props for movies

He's great Ian Great stuff mate

Cheers guys
back in my college days I did work on a few movies, muppets Christmas carol background puppeteer, first knight with Sean Connery, Event Horizon, even some background creature bits for ep 1, mostly promotional stuff with R2 there, but yeah good times, non credited as I wasn't in the union, but for a fresh faced young lad it was certainly an experience

grinchy wrote:Cheers guys
back in my college days I did work on a few movies, muppets Christmas carol background puppeteer, first knight with Sean Connery, Event Horizon, even some background creature bits for ep 1, mostly promotional stuff with R2 there, but yeah good times, non credited as I wasn't in the union, but for a fresh faced young lad it was certainly an experience

Ian, that's very cool man I knew there was something about you mate

Aww cheers mate, I look back on it with fond memories, I only got out of the biz as I got sick, but I keep making stuff as a hobby now, glad you all like my work

Going back over old photos, heres a set of Krites from the movie Critters, a fun project this one, started out as a commission for one and the order grew with each new piece as the buyer saw progress pics he upped the order to make all the different versions of the critters
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Ian, Those look fantastic.

What did you use for teeth?

Thanks Clint
For teeth I use a plastic compound called magic plastic, it comes as little beads which you add to hot water that makes it malleable, then I hand shape the teeth let it cool and it goes back to a solid great stuff

grinchy wrote:Thanks Clint
For teeth I use a plastic compound called magic plastic, it comes as little beads which you add to hot water that makes it malleable, then I hand shape the teeth let it cool and it goes back to a solid great stuff

That's awesome. They look so real.