Stop Motion Project in it’s infancy, I’ve subscribed to the awesome Stan Winston web tutorials and been watching the charming…
Creepy Pollyanna, she only wants to play with you
MUA Kate Maraj / Model Karen Penman – Halloween hard body baby and Trevor the pig came in handy for…
Cotton Candy Powder blue
FINALLY, been playing with this blue wig since the start of Summer, it was for the I heart Candy brief,…
Voodoo
Its a reuse fabrication from a horned skull I made many moons ago, a stick that was left over from…
I WANT CANDY
Sabah is back so we had a play – Candy inspired Vintage. MUA Sabah Wallace I handled the Styling &…
Skull Latex Prosthetic – Two looks
I was showing Kate how to sculpt and cast for work and made this skull mask to demo with. Poured…
The Little Hellmouth Bucca
I did want to do both eyes but alas this didn’t go to plan, face chart was far more sultry…
Daughter Nature
A beautiful ethereal Blonde Kate with crystal neck collar – white Magi-colour, pros-aide and table crystals, plus hand-made fresh flower…
Neon Pop Art
We did a tenner spend MU Challenge and did a MU each to hit the ground running. Kate made me…
DRAG PUNK ROCK
Embracing my 80′s glam – MUA Kate Maraj and I did the hair work, its a mohawk weave pinned into…
FOAM FABRICATION
I bought an heat gun and had a play with fabricating a foam wig. Twisted and cut foam, painted with…
Zombie Librarian
This was meant to be an MU for Kate and I wanted to airbrush, I was gonna get her to…
GOTH VAMP
Kates MUC effort, awesome evil girlie. My turn next week, prob gonna sculpt again – Half term MUC 🙂
ROBOTIC KATE
I had fun, sculpting, casting and molding the prosthetic back piece. Face circuit board pieces molded in latex with resistors…
INSECT QUEEN – MUC returns :)
Kate as my insect queen, Bobby bought me bugs for Christmas and this sparked an idea. I wanted to reapply…
THE DEMEANOUR PROJECT
Test make up one for the other Demeanour sister. Just having a play – sold on the fingers but will…
50’s Sugarskull Tattoo
Application with Stargazer Semi permanent Tattoo pens and Kryalon Bight eye shadow palette.
Halloween Make up
Our haunted house was asylum themed so meet – The DR and the Nurse, welcome. Bobby’s mouth was homage to…
How I LOVE Halloween
How I LOVE Halloween We had a party and I got my scare on, it was cool – Here are…
Fantasy Class MU challenge
For the first years I set a Fantasy class MU challenge – Any make up they like under the banner…
Alienesque – Having a play
Just made it up as I went along, just wanted to test out the semi permanent tattoo pens, nice tips,…
IMATS
Its been a horribly long time since my last post, no excuses – I’ve been rubbish but life as always…
Rainbow Kitty
Felt like doing a fill face paint something abstract. Gonna spend a little time sculpting and casting from here on…
Dior Sequin Eyes
Inspired by Christian Dior Haute Couture Autumn/Winter 2011-2012 I’ve been wanting to try this for a while but never had…
Zombie Alice in Wonderland
It was my birthday last weekend and I requested fancy dress poker for our regular Friday night game. I reused…
Tester MU for Grudge RED Variation for Lee’s short
Gonna have a play Sunday with some make up for Lee’s short (It will be the morning after my Birthday…
Screen Printing CLUB with Adam
Stayed late for FUN at work, and made the screens and had a first run for the Lilley cover work…
Third Degree Zombie teeth
Been meaning to have a play with the third degree for class and decided to do some false nail zombie…
Custom Consoles – TANK GIRL & BOOGA – SEGA Megadrive
So I’ve been talking about this for a while and finally had the half term to while away the midnight…
Ripped face Elphaba – WICKED
I’ve been off work poorly and missed out on getting to see my class to their own variations for the…
‘Everyone else, clear the corridors and stay the fuck out of our way until the shooting stops’
Mama from Dredd using the Collodion Kyolan scarring material – the more you coat the deeper it scars, used on…
WHY SO SERIOUS?
FIRST TRY – Collodion Kryolan (Scarring material) Going to have another play at burn scarring skin, this looked effective but…
S.W.I.M. book covers
One for Lilley, One for Stella and One for Violet. I had fund sketching these. Lilley’s I am going to…
SKIN SKULL FACE PAINT
SKIN SKULL FACE PAINT Felt like having a play – Snazaroos black, white, bright pink and light brown + kohl lip…
Cat in the Hat
I saw this on Pinterest and felt like giving it a go. My Christmas make up for my class, Kate…
Elven Princess Sculpt
Been watching a lot of Faceoff and I think I have a better understanding of the casting the mold and…
Happy Halloween
Dressing up for Halloween AGAIN Creepy Cat because my contacts arrived in time, whiteouts, redouts, whitey greens, elf eyes and…
Abstract Lion Alex box inspired for ANIMAL FARM performance
The students are apply the make up to performers for the Christmas production of Animal Farm. This was a 20…
Gaiman’s Death from The Sandman for COMICON
I know I say this ALOT but every day should be dress up, Class trip for Film and Gaming, 80…
“Life is too short for so much sorrow”
My variation on Tate’s skull from the school massacre scene in American Horror Story. The count down for Coven begins.…
Lesson Time – My extended MUC Crew
Had odd numbers in lesson so I’ve been sugar skulled ALOT. These are my favourite efforts, it’s neat this is…
WARRIOR BARBARIAN PRINCESS
Look at my baldie head 😀 wicked effort, Miss Maraj. She wanted a bald cap and I haven’t tried the…
Feather Priss
I got a lot of feathers and had MUC withdrawal so I had a play, a feather take on Pris…
MY Tiger face on ME
Angry Tiger face 🙂 Practicing contouring for Animal Farm assignment for class – Mostly kohl pencils and eye shadows, whiskers…
Till Death do us
Inspired by Virgin Suicides and the fact I had a lot of vases of dead flowers 🙂 which have…
SFX – The nasty stuff
Kate’s sunning it up on Holiday at the minute and I was getting withdrawals from MUC so I did the…
Creature Suit TAKE 1
I have started sculpting the Creature face, in essence he/she is a black bear. I’m happy with the first pass…
Hooks and Eyes
Inspired by pinterest but used ribbon instead of thread and made the cape. Got frustrated when I mucked up casting…
Dolly K
Super cool make up by Kate, I really loved this in person – FUN. This was a bizarre experience, half…
Haunting Mermaid
I really enjoyed the fabrication with the head dress last week, so decided to sculpt but instead of adding the…
BLACK SWAN
Using all my ballet skills here 🙂 Love the contouring and the styling worked out too.
MUSIC VID – with T Rex and everything
I had a lot of fun styling this one, not to plan at all (as my glitter girl Ila wanted…
Fire Girl Take 2 = FIRE QUEEN
Kate got into fabrication this week and made the Fire Queen Crown, exceptional – loved it.
Stepping it up after IMATS – An Editorial Look
Warrior Princess, free-styling this week and I decided to make it more about the fabrication then the make up. I…
Zack as a Vampire Noel Fielding (as it turns out)
I’m always boring the techies at work with MUC photos, Zack whose last week it is 😦 requested a make…
My first custom Munny
A Hedgehog, I think I shall call him Prick 🙂 We turned it into a competition and that was all…
IMATS 2013 was EPIC
All IMATS 2013 photos on pinterest board here So content, happy and inspired – Motivated to start designing the creature…
Getting my NERD on
Single screen, playing with paints – D20 prints for the boys at RP, Spell Casters Rule and if you don’t…
First attempt at Screen Printing done BOOM
Rubear modelling the finished cushion 😀
Gelatin Stitches – Rose Take 2
I recast the stitches with much thinner flashing and actually did an OK job at blending, might experiment adding some…
More Screen printing
What I have learned – 1. This was overly ambitious but I can now match panels, so can print big…
Making Kate do NOT pretty
Ru dog didn’t like this one bit, it creeped her out. Kate’s wicked job at Muscles, why isn’t it Halloween…
SCREEN PRINTING
Medellis, last year, said we should do some screening printing, once the students finished. I got *excited*, planned an idea…
*TIGER* FACE
Kates (Tiger) leopard face, all done with contouring and no prosthetics. I reckon this would work well with the airbrush,…
MUNNY DIY SPEAKER
Been meaning to make this for a while and all it took was a kitchen knife, some super glue, my…
ZOMBIE K
This was a lot of fun, glued down eye brows, scar wax for under eye ridge, latex and tissue for…
Not technically Make Up Club but Littlenobody related
I hate the term up cycling, so old table I made better – Inspired by Coney Island subway signs.
ROSE’S FATE
Kate wanted a back story for motivations so – Meet Rose, Tony’s gun moll, she double crossed him and stole…
VICTORY ROLLS
Kate looks smokin but the photograph doesn’t do the victory rolls justice and (if I do say so myself +…
MODERN GEISHA
Half term full day Make Up Club involved having your make up applied, at least 3 times by a 4…
Vamp Brow BUFFY style
Drusilla: Do you love my insides, the parts you can’t see? Spike: Eyeballs to entrails, my sweet. I loved being…
CIA DE LOS MUERTOS
Full face Day of the Dead, base coat using Ben Nye Magicolour white with the airbrush worked a treat, didn’t…
POP ART WEDNESDAY
Kate excelled, as usual we had the ‘Oh Fuck, what have I done’ face but voila Lichtenstein eat your heart…
MY GO – Dollface Kate
I need to get better at perfecting my ‘Make-up artist’ face instead of pulling the ‘What the fuck have I…
The first rule of make up club is…. *kidding*
So Kate come over with her kit and so it began. We had planned to do a make up each…
Laces for blending edges
I’ve been busy with other stuff and things 😉 but finally got round to applying the gelatine laces, blending is…
YOU GOT RED ON YOU
Homage to Homage – My first attempt at application, my first time applying make up to someone else, so all…
TAKE TWO – Pouring the gelatin mold
It was a poor effort last time. This time I marked out the seems of each sculpt in pencil in…
It wasn’t an unmitigated disaster
The thing I was worried about did happen, ed doesn’t have any weight to him, so I need to clamp…
Zombie Sculpt for Tel
I have laid the basic shapes down and it needs cleaning and tidying up, but happy with the ripped jaw…
WAX SFX MAKE UP – razor blade cuts *First try*
It worked well enough for a first attempt, took me about an hour give or take. My book stated you…
Getting Kitted out
I’m broke and overdrawn but look at all the neato stuff I bought – More mod roc plaster bandages and…
Pinterest – Super wicked good
I used to have notebooks full of images I liked, for inspiration, for projects – Then folders on my Macbook…
The CASTS – First Attempt
The day taught me You don’t need to panic, 4 mins is enough time Don’t laugh in the cast it…
LIFE CASTING
Two molds made and cast and I’m dead happy. My head in a bucket – Creepy right 🙂 My dad…
MY FIRST ATTEMPT AT AIR BRUSHING
I’m pretty pleased, my brush isn’t great, it took my a while to get the paint thickness right and I…
THANK YOU MR POSTMAN
My Air brush, Tokyo workshops Special Effects Make up Guide and the Alginate, ModRoc Plaster bandages and plaster for life…
NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS
Happy 2013 – Last year me and Archard made a gig pact as a NYR, at least one a month…
Thank you to EM Media
It’s been 5 months since our last post as Elephant has been on hiatus. We have been patiently waiting to…
Watching telly with pa
Unfinished stills from I Wish I Were an Elephant – Little Noah in his bedroom / Little Noah watching TV…
Getting started – Meet Maddie
Another package arrived super fast from Dollmore, full of teeny tiny clothes for animated people. This is Maddie, Noah’s daughter,…
It wasn’t meant to snow …
… in the script it was autumn, maybe if our summer had been sunnier, our brains wouldn’t be looking towards…
The audio side of things
Sam and Dan Burt sent over the draft score this past week and it’s amazing LOVE LOVE LOVE it, I…
And out popped Little Noah
His armature was easier to build than Noah’s as I learned from my mistakes and he is rather charming. We…
Green screening in the Cellar
Bank holiday Monday was spent down in the cellar animating Noah, love love love the new camera and dragon software,…
Hide and Seek at the Strongroom
This Saturday was spent recording Noah (James Gardner) & Little Noah (Jacob Gardner) at Air Studios in Shoreditch joined by…
And Rose was born
The parcel of clothes arrived from Dollmore, crossing every sea in the world to get here but it finally arrived…
Jake & Jam
Today we recorded the dummy track with James Gardner and his son Jake – so so pleased. They both read…
Making Noah
I have been in my element model making, Noah is finished (see photos) and we are dead pleased that Camilla…
Let’s start at the very beginning
I wish I were an Elephant is our 3rd animated short and will be stop motion models composited in 3D…
