Creature Design and Sculpture for Film
Creating the Head 3
A course by Jordu Schell , Sculptor
About the video: Creating the Head 3
Overview
“As with the body of the structure, I will close the creative process by blending the forms together and brushing them with alcohol. You will learn how to bring the head to a strong finish. ”
In this video lesson Jordu Schell addresses the topic: Creating the Head 3, 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
“Okay, now I'm going to start blending the parts together. I'm giving it little tear duct bits. So now I'm at the part of the process where I was with the body not too long ago, where I'm adding the details, the final details that'll help to convince the viewer that what they're looking at is real, relatively, when they get close to it. Okay. We're almost ready to bake this. Okay, I'm going to hold it up to the body one last time. So, here we have our finished head for our monster. And now we're going to bake it. However, it's important to remember that when you're baking the head, metal con...”
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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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