Disaster Averted!

With his Reaganomic radiation safely trapped inside an impenetrable shell, the former president is now ready to be dropped to the deepest part of the ocean... Never to be heard from again.

Oh Ronnie...

Okay, not at all happy that we have Mr Reagan in the shop. I feel dirty every time I see it, but I am taking suggestions on what we should do to it when we are done with the mold.

Anyone...?

Wedding Rings Done!

Silicone Bar Tape

I love silicone. I also love riding bikes. It was natural that I combine the two and make my very own silicone bar tape!

Ta Da!

Wedding Rings!

My current focus is designing wedding rings for my brother and soon-to-be-siter-in-law! Still only digital, but I will update with more pictures once they are done!

More Halloween Stuff

Once again, a long delay in posting…

The past many months have been spent working on a bunch of new Halloween costumes due to be out for the 2012 season. We did over 16 different pieces this year and each one required 3-4 painted prototypes, a master casting for backup and, in some cases, two molds. Quite a bit of work and you will forgive me if the pictures are a little unorganized. Here are a bunch of photos of the various items in several stages of work. Enjoy!

Various crowns and bits of armor.

This one is part of a living severed hand gag.

Bearcat done!

Just a taste

Long Time No Post

Sorry about the long silence. To be honest, I was quite busy. I spent a long time working on projects I can't talk about for clients I should not mention, and then the shit just hit the fan! 

You may have seen a previous post here with a picture of a bearcat maquette… Well, the story is that this is a mascot for some college and was going to be made 12.5 feet tall in bronze for the school. The small maquette we made was scanned with a 3D scanner, digitally enlarged and milled out of blocks of foam at the full size. After it was put together it was covered in a thin layer of clay to put final details in.

For some reason we were asked to take over for the foundry that was originally going to make molds and cast it. With little warning, I found myself flying to Sacramento to rent a truck, cut it up and bring it back to San Diego. When I got to the foundry all their workers were gone and I was left to cut the sculpture up and load it pretty much myself. All I had was a knife.

Once we got it back we had to chop it up more and prep it for mold making.

Then it was a nonstop marathon to get the molds done. We went a month without a break, but I had the help of the best crew anyone could ask for on this. Marie, Rich and Celou worked their asses off. Could not have done it without them!

Largest mold making project I have ever worked on!

And it gets messy.

This is Jordan. He was Amazing! Just came in one day and wanted to help! He was there for the hardest part of the job and was a huge help!

The end of the project!