Saturday - The 20-foot-drop - Aftermath

6:30 am start
talk about commitment


i had to stop by the school to pick up my paint brushes
as i was leaving - i went to take my CD player out of my bag and didnt my prototype sculpture decide to see if he could fly?

It fell a entire floor of the TEL building

its funny - in class i was wondering what kind of idiot would get their project broken - and just for clarification - its my category of idiot




but - as i said it was just a prototype

i was only carrying it wiff me as a point of reference when i went to buy paint (so i could show the dude at the store what i would be painting on)

as you can see here - the rest of the militia is still in tact:


you can also see the paint i bought in that above picture at the Pacific Mall (only took me a decade to get there - that place is dope tho)



and below is a final detailed version of one of the figures set for its last baking:


this dude turned out pretty cool

more updates later

BREAKING NEWS!!!

items made out of super sculpey will break if dropped 20 ft on to a granite surface


pictures to come later

baking round 1 final product

and somehow the dvd cover to Dead Like Me got in there


the bases look good

now i can build on them without mashing them up


the figure came out crooked but sturdy

looks like my idea might work out after all

nothing beats the smell of plastic cooking in the oven

i was sent to the garage to cook these up

no doubt

this stuff stinks





i cooked some bases and i made a trial run at cooking a full figure

i will post how they turned out in a second

Toy Building Process

This is a basic rundown of the process I am planning on using:

1. basic wire base frame:



2. base piece



3. cover up wire



4. addition of foot and opposing leg



5. body piece





6. addition of head and other opposing arm + some face details - also widening base at top






i will obviously add more pictures of the addition of details as i get to that stage


things look promising - i will make some alterations to the style of these figures to get exactly what i am looking for - but all and all things are going better than i thought they would a few hours ago


still plenty of room for disaster tho - dont worry

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Toy Prototypes #1 and 2

here are the first prototypes i tried to put together in accordance with my sketch designs

you will notice that one is bigger than the other

i did that big one first to make sure that my design was feasible

this morning i got hit by a strike of inspiration while trying to figure out a way to make the characters stable but dynamic at the same time (dynamic is the word of the day)

so basically - the character is built around a central pillar which acts as the LEG and the ARM on the OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE BODY (ie - left leg, right arm)

this way there is a stable pillar, but i can make the character look like he is in motion rather than just standing still

also - one of the dudes in my class mentioned i might want to take that idea AND add some wire re-inforcement - which you will see in further detail in the next post









as you can see - this pillar design allows me to make the character look like he is running and gunning

Strange Days pt II

Here are the materials I picked up at the store:

Some cheap-ass plastic tools (i actually picked these up partially because the texture on them is this swirly-brown texture which kind of reminded me of my Skate-Tag assignment) - these should be good for the bigger pieces i do - maybe not so much the smaller ones (plus they were cheap which was the most important thing)



Here are the tools jabbed into the clay:






And here is my clay mascot who was awoken and tried to escape the box before he was ultimately mashed back into the lump of clay.





i made that while i was waiting for the video to upload on YouTube


so things are looking good

got my idea and my supplies

but my fuckin shoes are SOAKED




oh - and here is a shot of some Toronto buildings that caught my eye today:

Strange Days + Revenge of the Super Sculpey

damn i have too much fun


today was a pretty rough day actually:

here it is summarized wiff pictures -


first of all - i guess i can trace it back to last night as i was falling asleep while using adobe illustrator at the library at school

man - i aint even think i was gonna make it home

this morning - i woke up and made a list of things to do (including updating the blog) and got off to a late start

i left the house and got just far enough away from the house that i wouldnt turn back when i realized that i remembered my CD player, but forgot to put a CD in it

we finally got a mild day in the city, so everything is melting
i had tossed on a old pair of shoes that ive had for more than a decade which i usually trust for wet and muddy conditions
- by the time i got to the bus stop - i realized that both shoes had developed a hole in the bottom

but as a true soldier - i ventured forth

i got downtown to the theater district where i was gonna check out the printing place for the In-Line Skate Tag assignment

the instructor gave us general directions where it was - but all i remembered was that it was near the Hooters restaurant on the corner of John and whatever


So I found the Hooters --





-- but I didnt find the print shop

i think it was in this building - and i searched around in there for a minute
but i dint much feel like hammering on doors and asking if they knew where a print shop was



so i admitted defeat - resolved to learn the lesson that its important to know where you are going before you try and go there (i swear i learned that lesson in the past - but as i said before - there is clearly something wrong wiff my memory)


this was ok

no sweat - because my real objective was to make it to Loomis at Sadina and ______ (Richmond I think) to pick up the molding material we need for the Toy Project

this stuff is called 'super sculpey' - but that name is a little too whimsical for me to be using on a regular basis - so i am gonna stick with 'clay'


anyway - i make it to Loomis and walk in

of course they dont have any of this clay

not only that - but they give me a strange look when i ask if they have any in stock (as tho they never heard of it before)

it was looking bleak at that point

on my way out the door, i asked the dude behind the counter if there was any other art stores around and he told me there was some joint called Carrys or Currys or Corrys or something on Queen street about 2 blocks away

so i set out in search of this next place

and fortunately i had something go my way

here is what the store looks like:

on Queen between Spadina and Bathurst



the clay was less than $13 before tax

i am posting this now so nothing disastrous happens --