Thursday, May 29, 2014

The Real Obsession

People I know think that I'm obsessed with Star Wars and that's not true. The movies are more accessible so I do more from them because I know more people will be into it. The real obsession is with Hellboy but more than that it's with the art of Guillermo del Toro. I love most of what he does and Hellboy is the favorite.



Last year I wanted to make the Right Hand of Doom for the work Christmas raffle but ran out of time and kept getting sidetracked with projects for nieces and nephews.

http://creatureshop.com/


I'm still behind on a lot but I also started watching Jim Henson's Creature Shop and got a lot of ideas starting with a better way to make the hand. I knew that starting over I could probably articulate it, one of my bottlenecks last time was how the fingers were going to lay and this is a much better option. Plus when I bring it to work all of my coworkers can take turns flipping each other off with Hellboy's hand. Sigh.


 
I carved the spirals into the foam with a soldering iron.
 

 
This is black and red enamel spray paint, a much faster way to do it.

 
Crimson acrylics with a paintbrush. Applied liberally.


 
Hit it a few more times with the spray paint. I had to take this piece out because it was too big with the hand to look right.
 
The rest is in progress....


Thursday, May 15, 2014

Recycling

I posted this to another nerd blog I do but it fits in here:

The Swamp House: more pics of the process and final project by John Henry
 
 
 
 
I am in love with automatons. I want to know how they work so I can make my own weird creations. I have books and kits and papercraft kits so it's going to happen. Soon....
 
 
Watching this one is kind of hypnotic so I started to wonder how much this alligator was making based on the apparent speed of the gif. It makes ~$.125/second or ~$450 an hour. Normally you are supposed to take an average of multiple measurements but I don't think the gif will speed up at all.
 
@10 seconds I counted 5 quarters or $1.25/10seconds = ~$.125/second
 
$.125/1 sec * 60 sec/ 1 min * 60 min/1 hour =~$450/hour.
 
Not bad.