New Decaying Corpse Sculpt

Just finished my first decaying corpse sculpt! The plan is to make a fibreglass mould of this later this week with Mady. The sculpt was quickly done in plasticine on an old stone life cast. Plasticine is much faster to work with compared to the Chavant NSP clay I've been using recently for making prosthetics. It is also a fair bit stickier and I had a little ball of clay in my left hand constantly while sculpting just for removing hairs and particles.









This sculpt is somewhat more an experiment with textures and working with plasticine as well as practicing two part fibreglass mould making than a serious piece for portfolio, having said that it has turned out okay for a really fast sculpture. I also refinished the surface with white spirits but made the mistake of doing this indoors and then had to move the fumey sculpt to the doorway and get a fan blowing the fumes out the door...

The day the Zombies came: Melbourne Zombie Shuffle 2010

Yesterday we participated in the Melbourne Zombie Shuffle. It's a kind of flash mob. A fun event where people dress up as zombies for the day and march through the city. It has no overt political focus, although I do think it is a kind of social commentary. It could perhaps be seen as a kind of spontaneous performance art.



The shuffle gave us a fun opportunity to do some special make up fx for the day. This year we spent a morning on preparation: one of the advantages of Alana and I have doing special make up fx. Although one of the best features of the event is the DIY zombie fx done by participants that showcases great imagination and character creation.



Alana's dad Mike was also on hand as a photographer for the day, which turned out really great as we weren't worried about lugging about a camera. Hopefully we'll also get some action shots from him soon. The event also allowed a field test for how long a make-up lasts. After four hours our character make ups still had good gorey gooey goodness, although potentially could have had a few touch ups at the two hour mark.

Catastrophy at Coffs