WHERE I'VE BEEN....

Hello, the, like five people who read my blog!

You may have noticed I've been silent for about two months now.I had lots of stuff to do, not to mention a trip to Maui. Cool place, has great green screen backdrops. I have good news and bad news. The good news is, Antediluvian is still in production and has one shot and a couple narrations left to complete. The bad news, my earlier project, Much to Fear about summer, has been scrapped for now. It was a great idea, and I applaud my script writer for making a fantastic script, but I don't have the time or resources to make it. Even worse, the computer had a data overload, and the completed animation was one of the unfinished projects I had to sacrifice to save Antediluvian. Still, surviving footage will be reused, many of the puppets made for the film are under use by Antediluvian, and I still have the script. Maybe another time...

Anyway, onto Antediluvian. I only have two shots left, of a character in makeup. His role is undisclosed, but he needed a bat-like nose. I have never tried makeup before. I knew how to do it, but wasn't exactly sure. Originally, I was going to use a foam prosthetic for the nose dipped in latex, but it didn't look real and didn't fit. So, quickly, I had to develop a latex prosthetic...

Recently, I bought some Monster Clay off Amazon, a high-grade casting clay. Before, most characters with high detailed faces had to have plasticine faces. I was experimenting with this stuff, and learning from several casting videos, I decided to try it.

I sculpted the nose piece, and built a wall of crude plasticine out of it, made from old plasticine models.

Then, I poured a crude grade plaster of Paris inside. It dried in a couple hours, then I peeled away the wall to get the cast.

This part I was worried about the most, considering this wasn't the strongest plaster, but I peeled away the clay and got a perfect cast. Finally, I painted the latex, let it bake in the summer heat, and peel off the prosthetic.

Not a work of art, but still proud of it!

However, I still have some troubles. The schedule for makeup and attaching the beard and nosepiece is still up for debate, not to mention the troubles of removing spirit gum. Fortunately, I have more than one film on my plate, which I will talk about in my next post...

Hope you enjoyed it. Please comment.

Kelston Hubler.

CAVEMEN AND MYSTERY BEASTS

Hello, it's me again. Sorry for the brief hiatus, it's just there's not that much going on. My actor is procrastinating for the THE LAST THREE FRICKIN' SHOTS and all the stop motion is complete. However, not all the creatures are finished.

SPOILER ALERT! DON'T READ THIS UNTIL YOU SEE THE FILM! SCROLL DOWN!

In the film, the protagonist, Rick, meets one of the cavern's few sentient species, a blind caveman, who leads him to his cave. I know it's weird that only he's albino and blind while the other creatures who lived there a lot longer aren't, but this film isn't exactly grounded in biology. Now, he will be played by me, my first attempt at makeup. He isn't that complex in design, he just has pale skin (flour), bad teeth, a robe, and arrows. However, he also has a thick beard and a bat-like nose to adapt to living in the cavern systems. For the beard, that's easy, just use the sheep wool that was used to make the gorilla:















However, the nose is tricky. I sculpted it from some foam and dunked it in latex. It sat there for a couple of weeks, but now I'm finally using it.















It's not that interesting visually, so I'm going to add fine hairs (like on moles or bats) to the nostrils and sides of the nose to indicate some sort of biological use.

Here's the fox hair, glued to the back. It fits on my nose, but falls off. I might use gum to fix that...

Here's the nostrils, now with lots of nose hair to obscure my actual nose.

Hi, Ashley! She sometimes shows up at my desk, but she'll eventually bite you if you pet her too much.

So, here's the nose, completed! I wonder if I should paint it. Anyway, you might be asking, "Kelston, what are you doing after Antediluvian?" Well, let me give you a sneak peek...















Wait. What is that incomplete foam monster?

What is that thing? Why does it have six legs and mantis-like claws?

AND WHAT'S THAT WEIRD INSECT ARMATURE FOR?

SCULPEY CLAWS?! WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?????????????

Thank you. Please comment.