Hair

Today I am going to talk a bit about the hair I have chosen and why I have chosen it. As with the teeth and eyes I have tried to approach the hair with a slightly different view. I could have easily chosen a standard grey or brown but I didn't really want this. First off I needed something that would suit the eye colour, not match the eye colour but suit it. Next I thought about were the werewolf was from so seen as I am from North Yorkshire. I carried out a bit of research into the wild animals from North Yorkshire and soon noticed that there were a lot of ginger animals, Fox's, red deer etc. I carried on a little longer with the research and was surprised to find that there is a species of wolf called the Manned Wolf that has red hair, Perfect!!!

I contacted National Fiber Technology and briefed them as to what I was after. After a few days I received a package from them containing ten small samples of hair. As always they came up with the goods. Although it is very expensive, it is by far the best available and worth every penny. Anyway I have chosen the hair I liked the best and will be ordering it in the next few days. OK, so that's it for now, I will be back soon with some maquette's of the final design.

I have uploaded my research folder as a kind of mood board. It contains images that I have collected while researching this project. I feel these images are all relevant to this project for one reason or another, they maybe have a good colour or texture or maybe they just inspire. If you are interested in seeing it them click here

Just a quicky, I thought I would have a go at adding hair on my Photoshop sketch, It kinda look OK-ish, I feel a maquette coming on...

Basic maquette

Hi Guys sorry it has been a while since I last posted. Anyway as you can see I have put together a roughed out Maquette of my idea for the Werewolf. This is a working Maquette and will be refined when I feel happy with the primary form. As it is I feel the neck is a little to thick at the moment but apart from that I am reasonably happy. This Maquette will of course have hair and a paint job. Anyway keep checking in and I will update as soon as I have done some more work...

I'm back and look what I got!!

A: Silicone Pigments Dark flesh, Red, White

B: Tinsil Gel 10

C: Silicone thixotropic

D: Poly-optic clear PU resin

E: Platsil gel 10

F: Tinsil gel 10 catalyst

G: Tinsil gel 10 accelerator

H: Mould foam M3 soft PU foam

Hi guys,

Well my parents have gone home so I'm ready to continue with the project. I just got back to work today and there was a large box on my desk from Mouldlife!! WOW! it was like my birthday.

Anyway I have posted some photo's above showing the materials I will be using to create the skin and teeth of the Werewolf. If you have any questions regarding the things just leave a comment and I will get back to you.

Update and eye blanks

Silicone putty used for making eye moulds

Mix equal parts of A and B until they are an even colour

Embed eye into mixed silicone putty

Crimp the silicone up until it forms around the eye

The resin I am using is easy flow 120 from Mouldlife, it is a two part PU resin

Mix equal parts of A and B until fully mixed

Pour the mixed resin into the mould

Here you can see the resin in mid cure

Now the resin is fully cured t is time to de-mould be careful though as the silicone can rip easily.

And here you have two PU resin eye blanks. As these eyes are mouth blown it is important to make a mould of each eye as you can see the difference between them both. It is also important to mark both the eye and the blank so you know which side of the sculpt the eyes should fit in. I use two dots on one eye and one dot on the other.

Hi all,

Sorry its been a while but I have been lucky enough to have been working at Millennium FX for the last couple of weeks. Anyway I'm back now and I'm going to carry on with this project for a while. Before I carry on I just wanted to say that the maquette I posted will have quite a few changes made on it over the next few days. I noticed it wasn't looking that much like my earlier sketches so watch out for updates on that.

So, eye blanks! well the reason I always make eye blanks is so I can use them in my sculpts instead of the actual eyes. This is for a couple of reasons, one so as not to damage the actual eyes and two the eye blanks will be drilled and tapped so they can be bolted in the mould when the silicone skin is run. This will mean there is no silicone flashing to clean up around the eyes making the lids fit perfectly.

Tongue tide

This is the tongue before surgery

The tongue cut in half

Here I have spaced the tongue parts apart with styrene rod

And here is the tongue ready to be moulded

Hi all

Well I came across a bit of a problem today. I had decided to mould the baboon jaws and make a set to fit into the sculpt of the werewolf. before I started I decided to measure them and make sure they were good for size and discovered that they were too small!!!!

I worked out that they needed to be one third bigger so what do I do? I have two options here. Option one, I sculpt a new set of teeth from from scratch and option two I perform major surgery. I decided to go for the second option. So far I have altered the tongue so it is ready to mould. the images above show some of the processes and the result. I will update with the teeth when they are ready.

Tongue up-date

So I wasn't that happy with the original sculpt of the tongue (a) so I decided to re-sculpt the front and add a bit more detail (b).

I was then ready to mould the tongue. because it will be cast in Poly-optic I used Platsil gel 10 from mouldlife.

Here is the tongue suspended in a plastic yogurt pot ready for the silicone to be poured.

And finally here is the first casting. The first cast or cleaning cast is from Easy-flow 120 from Mouldlife.

Last time, I showed how I had performed a bit of surgery on the werewolf tongue to widen it. so I thought I would give you an update now I have finished the mould for the tongue.

come back soon and see whats going on with the teeth...