The first teaser trailer is out. With a mere 2 days of shooting under our belts what did you expect? Lighten up, it's a teaser.
If you;re interested, you can learn more here or here. Of course, I'll be sharing some nuggets here as well. Like these pictures.
The sculpture of jean claude's makeup, an elderly man who is unknowingly zombified while enjoying his day. A quick sculpture done in monster makers clay. Sadly, it doesn't seem they will be making it anymore. I've grown to love it, soft when you want it soft, hard when you need it hard. I wish I would have grabbed more.
Day two of shooting. Jean claude is ready for his scenes.
Nummy nummy. I monitor the monitor as our pathetic French zombie is fed people food by mother.
Here's a few shots of some of the real behind the scenes stuff that went into making jc come alive...or would that be come undead?
A freshly demolded casting of jc's makeup. Cast in monster makers foam, with some GM flow enhancer added in to help out. The foam's somewhere in the 6 1/2-7 volume in a small sunbeam bowl, so very soft. Most of it is under 1/4" thick, but the jowls, chin, nose, and front of the neck is thicker, at the thickest it's about 1/2" A couple of drops of blue pigment added. It's a comedy, he's a zombie. Deal with it.
The mold for the makeup. Originally I had intended to run a cowl for him as well. I didn't set out to do a silicone mold for this, it just happened that I had to. The mold itself is brushed on dragon skin from smooth-on and is fairly thin. The support shell is ultracal 30. I ran into a few undercuts that I hadn't corrected due to the initial cowl idea...time demanded I get it done and run. Running the foam latex in the silicone hasn't proven to be too difficult. Baking in an old holding oven that requires constant attention to prevent the temperature running away is a bit of a pain. Every 10-15 minutes I have to manually adjust the temperature, for about 6 1/2 hours. No steaming yet, and the oven temperature is being held at about 150 degrees. The only other thing I have to be careful about is watching the edges, the silicone still wants to give just a little bit, so pushing that lifecast in well is critical for good blending edges. I was a bit nervous about the foam, so the silicone could have ran some gelatin appliances if needed with ease. I'd also be willing to bet I could still get a nice silicone appliance out of this mold. I've run some compatibility tests with dragon skin and after the doom and gloom and dire warnings people have given me about platinum silicone and sulfur I was worried, but experimentation shows it to be very possible with a little cleaning before hand.
jc's "teeth." Don Bumgarner whipped them up for me quickly as he's my go-to for anything dental. I stained them a little bit, but would have liked to do them much darker. I've got some props to build, and other things to work on. As I get the OK I'll be sure to post more on this.
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