From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mathieu_Ren=E9?= <creaturiste-AT-primus.ca> To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org> Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 17:11:44 -0400 Subject: [Puptcrit] Inspiring Puppet Artists (modeling) Today for a few hours my colleague and I were sketching other puppet heads in plastalina, for the upcoming short film project. It made me want to surf the web a bit to see what more I can absorb in lieu of forms, shapes, textures and efficient detail levels. I got back to a website I like to visit at least a few times a year. I mentionned his work before, but it bares repeating. The Canadian Artist is Alexander Mergold, and his ability to create intricate details into very efficient and living designs, with various materials (Polymer clay, air-dry clays, paper mache) is astonishing to me. His puppet portraits are amazing too! Like actual shrunken people, with something more to them. Something like a storybook flavor to them. He inspires me to aim higher in my accuracy and detail levels. He also makes me want to go back to my first introduction to succesful 3D sculpts: polymer clays. I was worried at first about the brittleness polymer clay for puppet use, but Mr. Mergold proves it can be done. Of course it's more suitable to small puppets, as the weight is a definite issue for larger scale. Should a certain small model be more subject to breakage, I know I can increase strenght a lot by providing it with a skin of thin yet strong paper mache strips, without sacrificing the sculpt in any real discerning way (planning the detail level accordingly during the sculpting stage). His website: http://www.freewebs.com/amcreatures/ But don't forget his blog, with lots more big pics and detail shots. Make sure you visit the many pages, by clicking on the link a the very bottom of each page: "next 20" http://moooooz.livejournal.com _______________________________________________ List address: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org Admin interface: http://lists.puptcrit.org/mailman/listinfo/puptcrit Archives: http://www.driftline.org
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