UNKOWN SPECIES: THE HONEY ISLAND SWAMP MONSTER

Hello, once again!

Even though the scripts aren't finished and in development, I might as well make the puppets for future episodes. So, I created a cryptid near and dear to me: the Honey Island Swamp Monster.

The Honey Island Swamp monster is a beast from a swamp in Louisiana, an ape-like beast with mysterious origins. However, unlike any other bigfoot, it has webbed feet and four fingers. I'm going for something a little more original than a bigfoot, but I'll leave that to the future.

UNKNOWN SPECIES evolved from an earlier Cryptid Project, involving O'bie as the Burrunjor and Harold as the Honey Island Swamp Monster. He was widely considered my best puppet at the time, and wanted to honor him by really upping my game for this puppet.

I sculpted the monster's face in the same cast as the Tatzelwurm, and attached it to his face. I then sculpted the webbed claws, adding holes for the baked claws to fit in. After casting, I fit the casted latex around his hands and feet.

I carved the arms to look like a realistic animal, with strong anatomy. Then, i painted his face, hands, and feet, his only latex parts.

The paint job is awesome. I love his hands, which remind me of the reptile god Mbwun from the sci-fi thriller Relic. His feet, the most realistic part of a creature I've ever built, remind me of a penguin. At last I covered the whole thing in fake fur and added tons a moss and fake vegetation to the back sand seams, to show his swamp origins.

He looks AWESOME. You won't see much of him until the first episode is finished and I can finally get to the next episode, but I will give you hint about his role:

He'll square off with oatmeal, the Burrunjor from episode 1. It will be awesome.

Thank you for reading. 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.