Jimmy the Head Monster

*update 2.15.11*

A couple more hours tonight, I mostly concentrated on his left arm, hand, all those lovely wrinkles, and a bit of his chest...I love how just when I think he can't get any creepier, i add a little detail and it make it all the more disturbing. And I kept Jerry busy, as he figured out a very clever way to mold the eyeballs for me out of urethane plastic. Can't wait to get those babies painted and insert them into Jimmy! (This is our first attempt at making eyeballs, let alone really tiny ones, so I'm taking work-in-progress pictures as we go and I will post them all together when they are done) Oh yah, I couldn't just call him head monster anymore, so I nicknamed him Jimmy.

*update 2.13.11*
A few more hours on this guy, i concentrated a lot on his face and head. And added the most important part- nipples!

So this little guy only has about 2 or 3 hours of sculpting into him so far and doesn't have a name yet, but that doesn't mean he doesn't already have a destiny! My good friend and collaborator Vince is the mean mug you see set in plaster there. He endured a tortuous hour or so of us putting goo, goo, and more goo all over his head in order to replicate his impressively large noggin.

As i had mentioned in a previous post, I have grown terribly bored with zombies. Of creating them as well as writing about them or seeing them in movies.

So in a tribute to the era of monsters like Basketcase, Vince and I have been cooking up a feel-good film featuring him and his unfortunate life with his little head monster. The idea is to either figure out some simple animatronics or rig some puppetry to make some disgusting spastic movements, although I have no experience in doing either. Yet another new skill to learn! Woo!

When I had sculpted the head, I was working so up close and concentrating that when I pulled back and took a look, I actually creeped myself out so I take that as a good sign. I like where this is going, but it still needs tons of work and the devil is always in the details, so I will post progress pics! But I can't wait for the glass eyes and mini sharp teeth!