Adam Paloczy: Sculpture and SFX Blog

 Anatomy study: The Face Muscles coming soon

 Drawings collection 1

  Human Head Anatomy & Sculpture coming soon I am keen to understand anatomical structures and natural forms, moreover how to achieve life-like results. I decided to sculpt my first human head bust and I purchased Jordu Schell's demo tutorial DVD "Human Head Anatomy & Sculpture" from Stan Winston School. I did not want to sculpt exactly the same sculpture, I wanted to make a slightly different face, but followed his instructions step by step. 

 Michelangelo's David's eye, nose and mouth coming soon

           Techniques of Sculpture: Male             Torso in Clay Sculpting project based on Philippe Faraut's demo DVD coming soon

  How do special effect techniques construct the identity of a character?              Makeup and special effects are essential for sci-fi and fantasy films. These stories often have interesting and extraordinary characters, or we can call them creatures. I strongly believe that the basis of the acting profession is, the actor needs to completely turn to be someone else. When it comes to sci-fi or fantasy, acting skills are not enough for this transformation so we need some extra support, which will come from the SFX department.       In 2019 Amazon Prime represented “Carnival Raw”, a TV-series which is a blend of drama, crime and of course fantasy. The story is about a human detective and a fairy rekindle a dangerous affair in a Victorian fantasy world, where the city's uneasy peace collapses when a string of murders reveals an unimaginable monster.[1] To make this imagined world to believable, the set designers and ...

       THE ANIMATRONIC PROJECT:                          MAKING A BLINKING EYE by Adam Paloczy The last project of Unit 6 was, to produce either a single eye or pair of eyes with blinking eyelids and optional swivelling motion. Eyes can have hard or soft eyelids. The eyes need to be set with a face/context so are not just free-standing eyes.  The eyes will be servo-operated with a programmable chip such as an Arduino with coded ‘performance’. Wow, what an exciting task! I saw this kind of moving eyes before, and I thought straight that I don't want to place them just into "something". I have to make these eyes for something more interesting than just an item, maybe an old toy from the local charity shop. I saw this kind of animatronic eyes before, they can be quiet robotic,  it would be a good idea to make some kind of robot head with blinking and moving eyes I thought.  Before ...