Work-in-progress

Anyone read Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials? Well the piece I am currently working on is a design for the Golden Monkey. Please see the design work and illustrations page to view the final design. The mouth and jaw is going to move through the use of animatronics.

Finished sculpt:

I have not fully sculpted the ears as I will add these separately later on in the process. The teeth are sculpted out of Fimo and baked in the oven, these will be removed during the mould making and cast separately in resin mixed with gold powders.

The eyes are for the time being just vacuum formed spheres, the final eyes are in the process of being made and painted. 

Jewel encrusted: 

As is indicated in the design, the monkey is to have a jewelled face, I had to push these into the sculpt so they will look inset into the foam latex when it is cast.