SDCC 2009

After skipping the event last year, Akiko and I went down to San Diego for the Comic-Con and had a great time. Saw some friends, attended a few panels and got some very positive responses from showing our portfolios.
The place was packed, but fun.


NERD!


Akiko waiting for her Disney portfolio review.


The black beauty from next summer's Green Hornet movie.


My Con booty.

Molding Vartan

With the figure sculpt complete on the Vartan maquette, it's time to make a mold in order to create resin prototypes for manufacturing. I decided to make the mold myself, but huge thanks to Colin for letting me use his shop and advising me on the process.


With the cape and hand holding the helmet removed, the sculpture is laid down and fixed to the turntable.


A foam core platform is hot glued in place to allow for WED clay to be built up to the parting line.


The WED clay here is to represent the plaster flange along the outside and silicone with registration keys over the figure. I made a few mistakes claying this up, but we'll make it work.


The plaster jacket.

REVENGE OF THE TRANSFORMERS

Whether the film is considered great or terrible, Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen was very good to me. I spent 4 months sculpting on it and got to work on things I usually don't get a chance to like ornament and scale maquette-models for some of the sets we were building.
-following photos will contain SPOILERS.-


By the time I was hired, all the math had been figured out to create this column, but I did get to help shape, detail and carve hieroglyphs on this 30' tall polystyrene beast.
Over 14 copies were made of this so Mr. Bay could blow them up in any manor he chose.


Another sculptor did the eagle statue (that got blown up) and I did the eagle talons and seal underneath it that was seen in the college library scene.
The painters did an amazing job making this look like marble.

Next I got to work on the maquette for the Tomb of the Twelve. It was a cramped set loaded with dead, corroded robots who had been there for thousands of years. The Production Designer and Michael Bay wanted a combination of organic bone shapes and decaying alien robot parts.


This one shows real animal jaw bones with teeth, casted spine and lobster parts and oil based clay.





The following are the finished set.




Hope you enjoy the photos, it was a fun project to be a part of.