Topic: Master Plo Koon mask WIP (Read 2048 times)

mrbungle · « **on:** October 24, 2010, 02:17:30 PM »

i have a friend that wants a accurate plo koon mask. we had a rubies which is freaking horrible.

so i made a mold of the goggles and breathers to redo them. the goggles and the tusks are the only parts that i do not have to completely redo.

i still think the greebs need to be redone on the tusks and the goggles need some work.

i made a life cast of my friends head.....he has pretty big head.

then started scultping the head.

i still have a ways to go, but i want to get the breathers finished before i finish the mask to make sure they fit good so i do not have to sculpt the mouth and eye areas twice.

i plan to cast the head out of dragon skin pro fx and the breathers and goggles out of cold cast resin. then reinforce the thicker parts of he mask with foam flex it 25 to help the mask hold it's shape.

here is the pics.

Lost in the Orient · « **Reply #1 on:** October 24, 2010, 03:17:08 PM »

Your plan sounds pretty solid. You may need to preform the foam parts and attach them to the positive, before you inject your silicone.

Sculpt is lookin' pretty sweet. It is water based clay?

mrbungle · « **Reply #2 on:** October 25, 2010, 04:08:35 PM »

thanks

i am using chavant nsp medium clay.

the one problem i am having is the movie used mask does not have a skin texture. so i am torn between doing the movie version or doing skin texture. i am leaning towards the latter. to give it a more realistic look. it is an alien. but a wrinkly one.

Mushisushi · « **Reply #3 on:** October 25, 2010, 04:27:28 PM »

a vote for skin texture, here!!

the difference between a movie and a mask you meet in the physical world is you are limited by direction and editing in to how much you see of the mask in a film, yet when you are in it's physical presence, you are the director of all you can see and can see so many more sins ...

Lost in the Orient · « **Reply #4 on:** October 25, 2010, 05:06:37 PM »

I have to side with Mr. Sushi on this one. I think texture makes everything better, unless you need a smooth polished surface. Perhaps a subtle wrinkly elephant skin type texture would work or a lizard skin texture. My two cents.

mrbungle · « **Reply #5 on:** October 26, 2010, 03:32:04 AM »

thanks for the input,guys. i like the elephant skin texture idea.

mrbungle · « **Reply #6 on:** October 27, 2010, 05:11:38 PM »

here is an update, got most of the mask done, now clean up is left to be done. i still have to finish the breathers, goggles and tubes coming off the mask connecting to the breather. i want to give it abit more skin texture than is on the movie mask.

Lost in the Orient · « **Reply #7 on:** October 28, 2010, 01:58:26 AM »

Looking good man

mrbungle · « **Reply #8 on:** December 02, 2010, 02:42:13 AM »

thanks.

here is the finished sculpt , i am getting ready to mold this bad boy......

definately one of the hardest things i have ever sculpted.

Lost in the Orient · « **Reply #9 on:** December 02, 2010, 04:57:44 AM »

Bungle, mate, this has turned out really well. You should be quite proud. What are you going to mold it in? What will be cast in?

Really looking forward to seeing the finished piece. i know you have been at this for quite a while now.

Cheers,

Mike

klaatu · « **Reply #10 on:** December 13, 2010, 11:54:09 PM »

I think its a really great sculpt, well done, one of the better designs from the prequals

mrbungle · « **Reply #11 on:** December 26, 2010, 08:12:50 PM »

thanks, guys.

here is the first plo finished, it came out ok, i am not thrilled with the paint job, but it will work.

i have the breather attached by hooks on elastic bands and the goggles by velcro. i broke my first goggles, the thin piece connecting them keeps breaking so when i cast future pairs i am going to embed a copper wire in the piece to give it strength. the vid i posted on youtube shows me breaking them ,LOL!!

here is the vid. my camara died before i could take off the mask.


plo koon mask by mrbungle	Small \| Large

the breather tubes are pink flesh tones. in the movie they look brown and on the SW in concetrt display plo they look pink flesh tone. i can both so it is what you perfer.

let me know what you think.

Lost in the Orient · « **Reply #12 on:** December 27, 2010, 09:42:50 AM »

You should be proud man. This came out great. If the paint is not quite right, you can certainly pour up more. What did you cast in, what did you paint with?

mrbungle · « **Reply #13 on:** December 27, 2010, 06:16:21 PM »

thanks.

i made the mask out of silicone and painted it with fusefx. other parts are made of resin,

it is just my inexperience in painting flesh tones. but i am getting better.

Steve-O · « **Reply #14 on:** December 27, 2010, 06:39:37 PM »

Love the way it comes apart, very practical. Great job. The resin parts look the business too.

Lost in the Orient · « **Reply #15 on:** December 28, 2010, 02:45:51 AM »

Bungle, dude, the piece looks rad, but if you want to tweak basic flesh tones, really study your own face close up, and that of older people, around the world. Sometimes the mottling is more pronounced and not as soft at the edges. Also, you can layer with more colors, more varied earth tonmes and pinks and yellows. I sometimes add up to 20 layers of color, some thin, some heavy, and some even repeated at different intensities. Time, my friend, is the real key.

Cheers,

Mike

mrbungle · « **Reply #16 on:** December 28, 2010, 04:37:06 PM »

thanks , guys.

lost.

that is kinda what i try to do. i hold my hand up next to the piece to try to gauge how the paint is coming along. but thanks for tips. i have been trying to collect reference pics of peoples faces and skin hues.

Lost in the Orient · « **Reply #17 on:** December 28, 2010, 06:14:53 PM »

Old people, man, get pics of old people, really old people. Many people ask me for photos of my body, specifically my arms. I am really veiny, but I have no shots to share. Anyway, for heavy mottling, look for full color photo books of the elderly. Also, there are great shots in some issues of Make-up Artist Magazine, and you can order back issues I believe. As I recall the issues covering Click were great, but there have been many great issues. Bear in mind that in many cases hands are different than faces, faces have a lot more variation of color, at least in my own experience.

Takes practice also to see. I am working with my Chinese trainees on this right now, really opening your eyes and taking in every detail and every nuance when sculpting or painting. they are still focused on sculpting right now, but the same thing will come when we get to intensive painting. I remember being in make-up school and at a certain point color became more pronounced for me, I started to see people with olive tones as green, every dot and ever freckle leaped out at me.

Your work is impressive and you so much talent. The rest will come with study and practice.

Cheers dude

mrbungle · « **Reply #18 on:** December 30, 2010, 06:11:03 PM »

thanks for the compliments and the advice. it is much appreciated.

Lost in the Orient · « **Reply #19 on:** December 30, 2010, 09:19:50 PM »

No worries dude, happy to be able to help in some way. I for one am really looking forward to your next project. Seeing your work progress has been very inspiring. Maybne I will get you over here for s project at some point.

Cheers

mrbungle · « **Reply #20 on:** January 09, 2011, 09:23:23 PM »

thanks , mike.

here is a finished resin bust of plo i just finished for someone. this is my first try at painting resin to get flesh tones going.

with the flash

and a detail shot.

Lost in the Orient · « **Reply #21 on:** January 10, 2011, 09:43:34 AM »

My main comment is that the dominant feature seams to be the brown veins and they seem formulaic. I would cast up another one. Really focus on depth with your various folds and wrinkles and recessed knobs and such. As for the veins don't make them so perfectly straight and symmetrical. Layer the colors, to achieve what you did with the silicone pieces.

mrbungle · « **Reply #22 on:** January 11, 2011, 04:58:32 PM »

gotcha, thanks, mike.

i am going to do another one for myself after i get another silicone plo mask finished for someone.

Lost in the Orient · « **Reply #23 on:** January 11, 2011, 05:50:09 PM »

Right on.

I hope people are paying well for these. I think you could ask as much as $900 for the mask without even sweating, and some might pay as much as $2000, if it came with a cool display stand. Just watch out for copyright infringement. Sell on the down low.

Cheers Dude

mrbungle · « **Reply #24 on:** January 12, 2011, 05:07:35 AM »

oh yeah!!

that is the way starwars stuff is. i troop with the 501st as boba fett ,darth maul and a kashyyyk trooper. ILM turns a blind eye to fan made costumes and mask sales as long as you are not out in the open with it.

the 501st promotes the starwars brand so that helps out lucas in the long run.