Creature Design and Sculpture for Film
Creating the Armature 1
A course by Jordu Schell , Sculptor
About the video: Creating the Armature 1
Overview
“Do you know how to build a robust and competent armature? The armature is a skeleton made out of aluminum wire, and in this lesson, I will show you how to make one. ”
In this video lesson Jordu Schell addresses the topic: Creating the Armature 1, 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
“So in our last lesson, you saw me mix up the Sculpey using my pasta maker to get the color for the base tone of the character I'm going to make. Now we enter a very exciting stage where I'm going to make the armature, which is basically the skeleton of the character I'm going to do. To do that, you'll see that I have three different sizes of aluminum armature wire here. This is 3 16ths, this is 1 8th, and this is 1 16th inch armature wire. So this is going to form the primary backbone, if you will, of the sculpture. This will be used for thinner appendages, and this will be used to wrap aro...”
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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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