Visual Communications - CCAD

A new look for the CCAD University college foyer produced for Visual Communications, Level 4

Firebird

Firebird Production design concepts

The Inspiration of Rick Baker

Rick Baker

Internet Movie Database

Rick Baker and his huge love and fascination for Apes and Werewolves, themes often revisited throughout his working career.

Rick Baker (born December 8, 1950) is an American special make-up effects creator known for his creature effects. I was introduced perhaps to this legend in the industry at a very early age and that impact was immense, Just as I’ve followed the path of movie making and its progress in the creative realms of special make up effects so have I with the works of Rick Baker and his team of talent artists through his California based at Cinovation Studios founded in 1981.

Baker received the inaugural Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling for his work on An American Werewolf in London^. Subsequently, Baker has been nominated for the Best Makeup and Hairstyling Oscar ten more times, winning on seven occasions, both records in his field.

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Rick Bakers throughout his creative practice has been no novice to computer imagery, He often used Photoshop to create his concept work when pitching clients. Bela Lugosi rendered in ZBrush a digital sculpting application which brought him a huge following and interest on the forum groups with this new media and his creative art.

Rick Baker ZBrush Interview

Lysistrata

The changing designs of Lysistrata. A Greek play based of Greer's Adaptation

FIREBIRD And The Automata Prop from Hell

A Quick Photoshop composite quickly establishing the concept 

A mock up model to work out the feasibility of motion 

Exploring the form of the ballet figure. I don't want to carve something out of wood  to create the figure or use a plastic doll. I've been looking at wire armature sculpture and decided to experiment with that concept to create a more skeletal silhouette for the body. Wire was bound around a plastic doll to form the shape. Pins where inserted to hold the wire in place before winding more wire around the body.

The hope was the plastic would melt away leaving just the wire...In to the oven it goes

Plastic pooh!! it didn't quite go to plan, the plastic turned rock hard and all the wire buckled and warped...as if you couldn't see that coming!!

We where asked to produce a series of quick drawings to explore the mechanic's and how they work along with the over all concept...however it just seem so impractical to scribble on paper and have nothing in any critical proportions when you can build in far quicker in 3DS Max and have it accurate...able to render from any angle. animate the mechanical action. make alterations in seconds.

A rough idea of what the finished concept might look like.

Some sexy looking gold foil to decorate the model when complete.

FIREBIRD Costume Designs

Some of the design work on the Firebird production for costume. Bottom a corset made from calico clothe. 

Middlesborough Sculpture

Newcastle Sculpture