Sunday, 17 October 2010

Turning people into Zombies with James Ward




James Ward, National Film School of Ireland.
Model Making and Production, Design for Film and Television.

Before James does anything else to turn someone into a zombie, he puts a bald cap on their head to protect them from getting anything (plasticine) on their hair, then he puts on polyvinyl gloves to protect his hands from getting dirty. He attaches the bald cap to the head with contact glue that he puts on the rim of the bald cap and on the skin so that it stays where it is.

Then after that, he puts in two types of silicon (life form, skin safe), one blue and one grey, and mixes them together,and then once they have been mixed well, James puts the silicon on the face of the person he is changing. James puts this on the skin first so that it will just come off when dry.

Once the silicon is all on, James then puts plasticine all over it, till the face is completely covered to harden the form of the mask (leaving the nose holes open so the person can breathe).

Once that is done, to get all off the person has to puff up his cheeks and wriggle his eyebrows to release the mask from his face.

Once the mask is off, James then had to use a (silver-free wax clay, soft), to plug up the nose holes so the plaster won't come out of it.

For the plaster, James had to mix water with plaster powder to form the mixture, once that has been made he then lines the mask with a little of the plaster to get the fine details (which is called crystal cal) and then he fills the rest of it with the rest of the plaster.




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