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Class: second round of mask projects
Mar. 24th, 2010 11:51 amMy masks and armor class has completed their second round of mask projects...a while ago, actually, but i've been too busy to get the photos up til now.
Four people chose to do cast neoprene masks, which involved the scaling and sculpting of a positive from a research image or design rendering, casting that in plaster to create a negative mold, then casting the mask itself in neoprene, painting it/padding it, and rigging it for wear. This is a great process to use if you need a lot of a single style, but is usually too time-consuming for many theatrical applications. (By time-consuming i mean, the amount of time required to for the plaster to completely dry with the negative mold, then the time for the neoprene to fully cure before painting.) Three of these masks were based on traditional African carved wooden mask designs, and one was a graphical rendering of a cartoonish style of owl.
One student chose to do the foam creature construction method that was taught by Holly Cole of Ohio University as part of last year's USITT Costume Symposium, to create a cartoon-inspired little-girly dragon character head.
The sixth student used the Varaform creature construction method taught by David Russell (also of Ohio U) at the Symposium, to create an Anubis mask.
( check them out! )
Four people chose to do cast neoprene masks, which involved the scaling and sculpting of a positive from a research image or design rendering, casting that in plaster to create a negative mold, then casting the mask itself in neoprene, painting it/padding it, and rigging it for wear. This is a great process to use if you need a lot of a single style, but is usually too time-consuming for many theatrical applications. (By time-consuming i mean, the amount of time required to for the plaster to completely dry with the negative mold, then the time for the neoprene to fully cure before painting.) Three of these masks were based on traditional African carved wooden mask designs, and one was a graphical rendering of a cartoonish style of owl.
One student chose to do the foam creature construction method that was taught by Holly Cole of Ohio University as part of last year's USITT Costume Symposium, to create a cartoon-inspired little-girly dragon character head.
The sixth student used the Varaform creature construction method taught by David Russell (also of Ohio U) at the Symposium, to create an Anubis mask.
( check them out! )
