Anubis Mask
2016
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I begin my masks with a paper sculpt.
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Once I am satisfied with the paper sculpt, I coat it in rondo, a mix of fiberglass resin and bondo body filler. This makes it rigid and easier to make a pattern from.
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After the rondo sets, I cover the sculpt in aluminum foil.
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The aluminum foil is now coated in tape
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The taped up foil is now pulled from the sculpt. This will become the pattern.
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The foil/paper is now cut until it lays flat. Note that registration marks were made before cutting flat.
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The pattern is transferred to eva foam. Note the pattern has been traced once forward and once backwards in order to create both sides of the mask.
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The pattern pieces have been cut out
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The pieces have been heat formed using a heat gun.
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The mask is now glued together using barge cement. Note it isn't quite right, this is due to moving the pattern from thin paper to thick foam. A little cutting and sanding will fix this.
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A few adjustments have been made and significant sanding has been done
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Teeth have been sculpted from Sculpey II Translucent
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More rondo has been applied to the inside of the nose for added rigidity
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Rondo on the lower jaw and drilled tooth sockets
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Inner jaw has been painted and teeth set into place
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Using more paper to draft out brows, cheeks, and ears.
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Brow and cheek patterns
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Brows and cheeks are now applied
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Ears, made from upholstery foam
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Ears attached to the head. They've got some droop to them, which I was not fond of. Looks great for a bat though, so I kept the pattern.
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A device I built to hold the ears straight.
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Ear holder is put in place to hold the ears while I add Epsilon Pro for rigidity
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Epsilon Pro has been applied, resulting in a now rigid and free-standing ear
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Ears now painted with Krylon Specialty Gold paint
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I added some gold rays to the ear using Rub 'n Buff
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I've cut off the nose to reveal the rondo. I'll be sculpting and replacing this with a silicone nose
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New nose made with Sculpy
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Texture tools made from silicone. I lifted these textures from various objects and used one to texture the nose
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Sculpted and baked nose
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I created a mold using the Sculpy nose, and from that cast a silicone nose
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Similarly, I created a tongue using Sculpy, created a silicone mold, and created a foam casting.
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The Eye of Horus is pretty much the eye everyone thinks of when they think Egyptian. It's not the eye Anubis has, but it's so iconic I used it anyway. I created a flat sculpt from Sculpy and created a silicone mold from it.
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Resin castings. Note these castings are curved. Urethane resins are soft when pulled too early, so I cast them flat, pulled them before fully cured, and placed them on the mask to get a form-fitting curve
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Eye of Horus added, buckram eyes added
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Eye of Horus, tongue, and circlet added, ears furred.
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Mask mostly completed, only the headdress remains
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View of the inside. Notice there is a cooling fan.