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drcrash Guru
Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 705 Location: Austin, Texas
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Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 8:09 am Post subject: more fun vacuum forming craft foam (cartoonish masks) |
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For Halloween, my wife and I are probably just going as ourselves... only simplified in a sort of generic/cartoony way.
She took a life cast of me and smoothed away all the fine detail with modeling clay, to make a "plain" face that resembles me. Then we recast it (adding vent holes and a built-in riser int he process) and vacuum formed a few different colors of craft foam over it. She cut out eyebrows, hair and beard, and lips from those and glued them onto a peach-colored one, to get this:
The eyebrows are repositionable, so depending on my mood, you might see these:
_________________ Paul (a.k.a. Dr. Crash)
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CJanssen Expert
Joined: 17 Feb 2007 Posts: 215 Location: Beaverton OR
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Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 10:54 am Post subject: |
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Cool mask doc...switch that peach color to a yellow and you'd be ready for the Simpsons
Love those adjustable brows, people gotta know when your angry.
CJ _________________ "What, you think your some kind of Jedi?" |
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TK 109 Guru
Joined: 11 May 2007 Posts: 712 Location: Galena, Ohio
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Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 2:43 pm Post subject: |
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nice, very cool! _________________ -Alex
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crashmann Guru
Joined: 27 Sep 2005 Posts: 501
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Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 10:18 pm Post subject: |
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Wow, you stepped right out of the Dire Straits video "Money for Nothing"
http://youtube.com/watch?v=x8Qvv3RdW-Q
That's a really cool variation on the craft foam. At first I was wondering why you were showing off your CGI skills, then I realized those were real photos
The eyebrows remind me of Toy Story 2 when Mrs. Potato Head said "I also packed your angry eyebrows!"
Very creative!
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Stomper Master
Joined: 01 Oct 2005 Posts: 473 Location: Woodburn, Oregon USA
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Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 4:52 pm Post subject: |
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Very cool!
Speakig of adjusting the eyebrows... try rotating each one 180 degrees!!
_________________ Tony Krewson
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drcrash Guru
Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 705 Location: Austin, Texas
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Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 11:00 am Post subject: another mask (diffuser plastic & craft foam at Burning M |
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Thanks for the kudos, guys. (We'll definitely incorporate Tony's anguished eyebrow inversion into our expression vocabulary.)
Here's another mask we worked on... helping with the concept and the vacuum forming, but leaving the artistry and cosmic significance up to Laura Lea Nalle, for her "Greenhouse Project" at Burning Man 2007.
Here's a rough preliminary version... she re-did it better, but I like the lighting in this shot:
The mask is basically vacuum formed styrene diffuser plastic from a fluorescent light diffuser ceiling panel. ("White mist" texture, which is a fairly fine texture that mostly looks luminuous.) On top of that there are two layers of vacuum-formed craft foam, with parts cut out so that some places the middle layer shows, and other places the luminous bottom layer shows.
The mask is mounted on a styrofoam wig head I cut the face off of and hollowed out with the hot knife I made from a soldering pistol. That let Laura Lea put LED lights in it, far enough back from the mask to get an even glow. (The whole head actually glows somewhat.)
Here's a shot of the 2nd and final version in daylight, on the Playa at Burning Man:
And here it is at night:
Unfortunately, I don't have any close-up or off-axis pictures that would really do justice to the 3D shape, which came out really nicely... so here's a couple of longer shots:
Here's the artist/model (we used a life cast we made of her face as the mold) with her cosmic thing:
And here's a shot during the fabled Burn, with the proverbial Man, burning, in the background.
_________________ Paul (a.k.a. Dr. Crash)
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Stomper Master
Joined: 01 Oct 2005 Posts: 473 Location: Woodburn, Oregon USA
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Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 11:50 am Post subject: |
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Speaking of Burning Man, I heard some joker set the thing on fire TOO SOON this year!! _________________ Tony Krewson
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drcrash Guru
Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 705 Location: Austin, Texas
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Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 12:07 pm Post subject: |
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Stomper wrote: | Speaking of Burning Man, I heard some joker set the thing on fire TOO SOON this year!! |
Yeah, the idiot thought he was making a "statement", and torched the man early.
That was not a huge deal in itself---they mobilized a bunch of people to rebuild the man in a few days, in time for the scheduled burn, and that was sort of a cool community-pulling-together kind of thing.
The problem is that it wasn't just the Man that burned.... tens of thousands of dollars worth of painstakingly constructed art and lots of expensive gear got destroyed. (And a lot of work with no particular price that people put a whole lot of work into, and irreplaceable stuff with sentimental value that peple placed around the man intending that it be removed before the burn, etc.)
One sculptor lost a whole bunch of huge hard carved sculptures that took months each to build, and would normally sell for something like $10K each. (Without making him rich, given how much work he puts into them.) He also thousands and thousands of dollars worth of other people's gear that he'd borrowed or rented. (Trailers, tools, support systems.) He didn't have enough money to replace the stuff, so last I heard, he's financially screwed. (They were taking up a collection for him, but I doubt that'll cover it.)
They should tie the arsonist to the Man next time for the burn. That'd make an interesting statement, too. _________________ Paul (a.k.a. Dr. Crash)
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Stomper Master
Joined: 01 Oct 2005 Posts: 473 Location: Woodburn, Oregon USA
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Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 12:15 pm Post subject: |
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Awww dang, I had no idea so many lost so much over that... bummer!
I know I would have gotten some "payback" on the guy if I had lost my arse like that. Making a "statement"... what kind of "statement", other than he's a selfish jerk?!
I just can't abide people who show a blantant disregard for other people's lives and their property like that, I hope they filed charges against him!! _________________ Tony Krewson
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