sculpting TV stars

  I sometime get bored of only watching TV, so I take advantage of the charismatic characters to do some art. Although is difficult, in the sense I'm not working with a posing model, but catching glimpses of the scharacter though the rolling of the film.
The mouse is instead from a picture of a gift bag (the wooden spoon was part of the bag with Remy print on it) I took advantage of some great morning lighting to do the shooting. More photo at the bottom of my sculpture and painting photo collection.
Although, the man is about 2 years old, the mouse was done last winter. I'm really bad at updating my blog :-P

They printed my Frog!

Discouraged by the scarcity of 3D modeling opening now days, I told to myself, what could I do if I was not a 3D modeler?
Well, I have an ability about reproducing things. I always plaid with dash and modeling mediums, I can draw... So well, I checked online what are the uses today of reproducing abilities and I encounter many options, until I crossed this 3d printed figurine. And then it was clear again. I am a 3D modeler. I then modelled a tree frog as modeling test, and ask people online to print it and share info and pictures, in order to understand what each printer can do, and what are the limitation of a 3d model for printing, as production modeling for animation is quite different than this kind of modeling. I got a good response, and I hope many other frogs will follow!
Anyway, if you want to see more, this is the link to the original post, while you can see lots of other 3D prints on Thingiverse.

Cupcakes decoration!

                   Well, I had a curiosity about how to use my modelling skills elsewhere than 3D, so I though about cake decoration, which lately got wild in shapes and colors. In order to understand something more I decided to do a 2 hour saturday morning course at LeDolci (with my friend Kathrine), so I experimented with stamps and fondant colors. I actually got some idea of how to transfer my 3D digital modeling knowledge to the making of these, but it's a surprise for later on.

I also did some new clay modeling, after I went to the ROM few weekends ago, there was the Maya exibition (open until April), where I got enchanted by this incense burner with a very nice stylized design of the sun God and some Imix monster, and so I did this candle older cutting off the eyes of the monster. Then I did some sketches of the stuffed animals they have over there (an amazing collection I have to say), so I did the turtle, converted to a pencil holder. At least these sculptures are useful!

old Salt Dough sculptures, still so cute!

some old Xmas gift for my relatives and friends, you can see other at this LINK
Materials: salt dough cooked (flour and salt with a bit of water and oil) , painted with tempera paint and coated with Vernidash.
I made many more in the past, but I didn't do photo to all of them as I considered them only as a game, and other are too blurry. Still, the quality of these photos sucks, so I had to work with sharp mask and noise reduction to bring out something from the blur!

Oh, Canada, some sculptures for Halloween.

 Some extra sculpty I did in September

Auguri Mamma

Ecco il regalo per mia mamma, sperando che indossando questo ciondolo possa ricevere un sacco di auguri da tutti i suoi clienti.

Here a gift for my mum, hoping she'll get lots of wishes on her birthday.

Funny animal beanies and other crafty stuffs

 Last winter, with my friend Annie, we did 6 beanies for Christmas gifts. Our friends were enthusiast. Other friends told us we should have make more and sell them. 

Annie is great figuring out the pattern for realizing my ideas. We simplified some old design, and made some new one. And now...our beanies have PAWS and WINGS!

Getting something from a design to a real wearable hat is really fun.
Unfortunately we didn't find anybody that would buy them, so we now have a lot of new gifts right now for family and ourselves.
Annie got really enthusiast and with her friend Pam does also some mini hat, rings, magnets and now I am starting with some sculpty modeling for pins and whatnot as well. For updates you can check here the beanies and the magnets/pins

Super Sculpey

When I was mentoring in Vancouver Film School I discover a really cool paste to model, which never dry untill you cook it. I know, sounds silly the fact that I don't know about it, but I did 2 years in high school of working clay and I never worked plastiline or similars. Anyway. I like it and it's fast to be worked. I hope to do some more model soon, as I really enjoy it.