More Swedbank

More of Swedbank done at Aardman Commercials back in March.

This time i was able to do some of the character sculpts and clothing for the wolves as well as the usual modelmaking, flocking and airbrushing etc.

I had totally forgotten i had worked on these until i stumbled across the videos by accident. Unfortunately i couldn't find them in English but here are the Swedish versions...

Hotels.com 'High Flying'

Here's another commercial i worked on at Aardman which appeared on their commercials channel recently.
I worked on this one just before the monstrous garden. It involved sculpting and molding the bodies and limbs for the lady as well as some airbrushing and hand painting elements of the model... Oh and a nice new pair of armatured hands for her too!

Little Tent Of Horrors..!

At the Kendal Calling site we made the final touches to the finished monster's heads, assembling and painting the 10m vines and leaves. The vines were then inserted into the heads and spiraled together and a collar of leaves positioned on each head to cover the join.

The Monsters were then rigged in place and much to my suprise actually filled the space nicely..!

Monsters at Freak Street Studios Launch.

The monsters displayed at the Freak Street Studios launch in Bedminster, 21-25 Nelson Parade.

Freak Street Studios is a new artist led cooperative representing a diverse collection of cutting edge fine artists and creatives. Having worked closely with Capacity and Art Space Life Space to obtain the space, they have over the last year been repairing and renovating the building. The space now includes several workshops and studios housed by blacksmiths, carpenters, painters, photographers, sculptors and printmakers as well as several exhibition spaces.

They are looking for artists to exhibit in the gallery and in the large window boxes as part of an ongoing programme from August till December 2011. (This is not a commercial gallery – experimental, installation based, performance art and mixed media work is much welcomed).

Please email or telephone 07875591839 for further info or email proposals to freakstreetstudios@gmail.com

Monstrous Garden

This year myself and Sarah were asked to create a large central sculpture to be hung between the king poles of the Kaylied tent at Kendal Calling festival 2011.

The theme for the area was the Monstrous Garden, so with that in mind we decided to make a little shop of horrors inspired plant, which would hang down from the center of the tent and spread out over the crowd below.

I was going to blog about the build each day but as usual things got a bit hectic and i forgot.. Here are the pre Kendall build photos:

^Above are the Poly carves we did for the heads of the plant. The blocks measured about 1m square before they were carved down to varying dimensions. The teeth were carved out of blue foam instead of polystyrene as we felt the poly wouldn't be strong enough. They were scrimmed with muslin and flintbond fireproof pva before they were painted.

Arcadia 'Spiders' makeup

I finally found a few closeups of the makeup i did for this years Arcadia Spectacular. Hopefully a few more will crop up on facebook..!

Below photos courtesy of Duchess Photographic

And here's another video too :D

Arcadia Spectacular 2011

...And for this years Glastonbury festival.. The Arcadia Spectacular 2011



Ok.. so i dont have any pictures of what i actually did but there is this great video of the event and a whole bunch of others on youtube and the Arcadia site.

This time around i had no part in any of the build before the festival started, but instead was trying my hand at makeup, helping out a friend Inma Azorin, who's workload was gradually growing day by day. As it turned out Inma ended up mainly on the hair/wigs and myself and Sarah did all the airbrushing for the two shows which weren't rained off.

Photos to follow.. as soon as i track them down..!