Creature Design and Sculpture for Film
Preparing the Sculpey
A course by Jordu Schell , Sculptor
About the video: Preparing the Sculpey
Overview
“There are a variety of astounding things you can achieve with polymer clay. In this lesson, we will take a look at all of the techniques I have learned in my years of doing this work. You will learn how to create intrinsic coloration in your clay. ”
In this video lesson Jordu Schell addresses the topic: Preparing the Sculpey, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creature Design and Sculpture for Film. A professional approach to creating fantasy and horror characters out of Sculpty clay.
Partial transcription of the video
“In our last lesson, I did the drawing that is going to be the template for the creature I'm going to make. In this lesson, we're going to start by mixing the color of Sculpey that I want as the base color for my creation. To do that, I've got a very pale block of Super Sculpey and I've got some Translucent Sculpey 3, which basically is Super Sculpey, but in different colors. To do the mixing, I'm going to be using this machine here, which is a pasta maker. And what it does is it takes the Sculpey and actually flattens out and mixes all of the material together. What I do is I sort of flatte...”
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Course summary for: Creature Design and Sculpture for Film
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Category
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Areas
Arts & Crafts, Character Design, Concept Art, Fine Arts, Sculpture
Jordu Schell
A course by Jordu Schell
Jordu Schell is a U.S.-based fantasy artist with decades of experience under his belt. Inspired by fantasy films of the 70s and 80s, designing creatures has always been the most exciting thing in the world for Schell. He got his big break in Hollywood in 1989 when he was hired to assist on a low-budget movie called “The Bride of Re-Animator.” From there, his career took off; he worked as a sculptor and designer on “Edward Scissorhands,” “Predator 2,” “Men in Black,” “Alien: Resurrection,” “The X-Files Movie,” and many others. Notably, he masterminded Neytiri, the lead heroine in the Oscar-winning film, Avatar.
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