dummy design

[DHARMAESTUDIO]

Hello guys:
This is a study of a level of rotten on a dummy, it is not the true face of the actor(no casting at this moment for the role).
Finally I will make the dummy in silicone and I think that the look of the image it is transluced enough, I fell happy with the result.
I paint the hair in photoshop.
Hope you like it.
Arturo gordo2-low.jpg

[Ron Harris]

I take it you pour silicone into a plaster mold? What do you prefer to use as a release agent for the mask/object from the mold? Very kewl design.....I hope you will post some images of your sculpts and mask making.....tips always appreciated :) :tu:
thnx for sharing
ron
catfishmn@aol.com

[DHARMAESTUDIO]

Maybe it is not here the place for make up FX tips, you can take a look to
www.themonsterlab.com.
I use as release most of the time Soap, dishwash for plaster molds, and old type Marselle soap for silicone molds. I use to apply the soap in the silicone molds while I´m drying the surface with a airdryer.
Hope this help,
Arturo
If you like take a look to my web to see more examples of make up fx things.

[DHARMAESTUDIO]

www.dharmaestudio.com

[lemonnado]

Nice Website! Scary stuff.
:tu::tu::tu:Lemo

[darko999]

Super website and a great model.

d.

[DHARMAESTUDIO]

Thank you for the coments.
I´m happy that the web likes to the people.
Arturo

[Abyssis]

Heya Arturo, clean-designed website and awsome works have you there:tu:
I like it well:cool:

(BTW: thank you for inspiration...)

[DHARMAESTUDIO]

Finally the director saw the design and he wanted some changes.
well, this is an update of what he want.
Like the other zbrsh+photoshop.
Hope you like this too.
I´ll keep posting
Arturo gordo3-lowb.jpg

[Ron Harris]

Love the update...reminds me of the Uncle from night of the LIving Dead 1991 remake...the old uncle zombie that owned the farmhouse everyone was hiding in...Uncle Regis or something like that....the only criticism I might possibly have....(and I realize I am not the director) and I am not paying for it, but the teeth need something....they are modeled fine, but color or material? something is off, to me.....I have to find the right rotted textured for teeth myself....mine are always too clean I think...and I never like my own materials...grrrrr.....

One of my favorite movies/scenes was from Halloween III Season of the Witch, where one of the masks misfired and lazered out the woman's mouth.....very kewl effect and work on their parts...Can't remember if it was Dan Post Studios that did that or not.....anyways...I personally am enjoying your thread and postings for sure...looking forward to more.

Ron
catfishmn@aol.com

[DHARMAESTUDIO]

Thank you for the answer Ron.
Don´t worry for the teeth, this isonly the design with the idea of gold it is enough. Anyway thay must to be clean enough to recognize that it is gold, that the reason for other character of the short film to open the graveyard of the fat man. Maybe older and rotten would be better for other scene.
The corpse was buried in a wet and warm place n more than 1 week, the wound are little animlas bites. Of course they were bitting were we want, in the lips!!! to show the teeth in the right moment.
Arturo

[Belseth]

I'd definately drop the gold teeth but the rest is beautiful. If you do one with rotted teeth make sure you post it.

[DHARMAESTUDIO]

Final result.
Arturo
gordo3b-low.jpg

[petter dominique]

nice work but buerk !!

[Ron Harris]

Looking good, Arturo, and thank you for the links....love the mask galleries...there is alot of talent on that forum from the looks of the gallery so far..(I am only about halfway thru it.)

When I first looked at your image I thought and wondered if they were gold capped teeth....so I was right in my thinking....I don't know if you have gotten to see any of the Masters of Horror series on Showtime televisionbut the first episode had a villain with silver capped teeth....very kewl effect...your gold teeth should give a good similiar effect....my local friends raved about the creature on the series....thnx again for the update.....you are a very skilled professional it appears......my hat is off to you.


ron
catfishmn@aol.com

[DHARMAESTUDIO]

erasing

[RobCardIV]

i dont understand the facination with nasty stuff.

[DHARMAESTUDIO]

Well, I don´t know what to say. I don´t want to be rude or polemic.
I want to be kind, only say that all these designs are fake.
From really long time ago I never take a look to any kind of TV NEWS.
The news´s nasty!!!!!!
Sorry for the disturbing.
A not violence man

[RobCardIV]

8)

[Belseth]

It's all a matter of tastes. Personally I'm not so crazy about the cute stuff but it pays the bills. Monsters and demons have been with us from the cave days and probably long before. Not sure why you're compelled to look at the page if you are offended enough to comment on it. It's all meant to take us out of the real world for a brief time. Sometimes it's healthier to look at fake horrors than the real ones. Part of it is the challenge. It's an impressive model. I've seen real corpses, not reanimated ones of coarse, and the ironic thing is they look fake. Somehow that makes them even more disturbing. You may find it incomprehensible why some one would be interested in zombies but I can't understand the facination with Barney. The purple blob creeps me out.

[mathieu77]

love your work dharma, great web site of yours you are definetly having a style that s moving me.

PS:please upload your lava material sometimes looks too great not to be shared.

Mathieu