Mold Making

[jayco35]

I decided to video catalog the molding process on this sculpt. This is just the intro more to follow as I get more done. This project will be done over a period of several months. Give some of you an idea of whats involved with molding process.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcnztuA0x48

[Sniper]

I thought you should have done this years ago..you certainly have been doing it for a over a decade..
It's going to turn out great..
will you be showing the roto casting process john?

[jayco35]

2 part molding, 1 part block molding, pressure cast and roto cast. I will show all 4 techniques with this tutorial.
About 18 years doing this Andy .I hope it turns out good for the clients sake.

[manueld12]

Looking forward to this.. going to be trying out moulding for the first time this weekend

[hulkpitt]

This is my second sculpt and a steep learning curb.
I sent some shots of it in the early stages to Mark Van Tine, as a fan of his work I was over the moon when I received a response, I would like to thank him for his advise and the sketch he did, he helped me with the anatomy on this sculpture and gave me a blueprint to work from greatly improving the end result.

This is what I received from MVT.



I also had advise from Pablo Viggiano and thank him for his time and encouragement
I wanted to get a couple of castings done for my brother and my friends so I sent the finished sculpture to Jayco as I know and trust him. This is a superb Idea to document the process by filming it, it is above and beyond what I expected and I thank you (John) for that. I have never seen this stage of the process and will be watching with interest to see how it is done especially the roto casting part. Its like Christmas came early this year for me.

[toe]

awesome. My brother and I have been wondering how to make a mold of a character with open mouth so this tutorial is gonna be great. Thanks.

[SNIKT]

that's really cool... thanks for posting the video!

[jayco35]

I plan on doing some more work this weekend so the next video will be up next week.

[warhead]

Thanks for posting John, very interesting I would have loved to see you doing your Keeper, looking forward to your video's.

[Alaneye]

I've done some moulding and casting a good few years ago now, but I think my methods were long winded at the time. To see someone with your experience doing the work should be a revelation and I'm really looking forward to it. Should also be an indispensable help for when I cast my T2 Arnie in the coming weeks/months depending on how long it takes me to finish up the sculpture.

Many thanks for taking the time to document it, John.

Alan