Progress and Process

Here's a photo of me working at my desk in the model shop.

Photo by my friend Tony P. Chen.

Here is the latest on the yeti creature that I'm making. He's really really skinny!

Things are good!
Cammi

What's up with you?

 Yesterday I went to see a screening of the film I worked on, ParaNorman. It was nice to be so proud to have been part of something that good!

Today I cast up the face and hands of my newest yeti project:

I also did a Basil Gogos style paint test on Drac:

See ya later!
Cammi

Aunt Cammi really likes monsters, huh?

Newer photos taken by my friend Tony P. Chen:

A picture is worth a thousand words? I'm going to tell everyone that I wrote the equivalent of 9,000 words on my blog just now. (No I'm not.)

Friendship.
Cammi

Let's get down to brassual tackery.

I won't name any names (because I can't) but it has come to my attention that some of you are finding the blog through other means than our etsy page. And I will have you know that I'm cool with it. I love writing this thing and have made all the plans necessary to post more shit. Here is the newest guy in our etsy shop:

 

He's happy, trust me. Max made him! He looks like he has to sneeze? I might buy him, is that weird? I really want to have him :(

Sadly,
Cammi

https://www.etsy.com/listing/106238924/brown-furry-plush-man-creature-with

Don't try to be original. Just try to be good.

I asked my little cousins and my niece to draw pictures for me. I wanted to turn the drawings into plush dolls for them. About halfway through the first one, I thought to go online and see if anyone had done this. Several people had and I laughed at myself for thinking it was original.

The architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe said, "Don't try to be original. Just try to be good". There has always been something appealing about the idea of originality. Typically the word is defined as the beginning of  a new concept or the first form. But to be stuck worrying over creating something original can cause us to never do anything at all. Focusing on doing things well is where it's at. I'd rather make something awesome than make an original piece of crap! We don't always remember who started doing something a certain way but we will always remember who the masters were.

I took several liberties with my cousin, Asher's drawing and though this is hardly the work of any sort of master, this is what I came up with:

Also, Ludwig's birth name was Maria. Just saying.

Auf Wiedersehen!
Cammi

Famous Monsters of Filmland

After many hours of sculpting these bastards, I mean I can't imagine any of them having been born under wedlock, they are finished! I meant to take progress pictures but there was no step that seemed photo-ready or pretty enough. I know, I know, that progress pictures aren't meant to be pretty. I will take progress pictures on the next set! I'm going to do several sets of these in different paint styles.

Thanks for showing up!
Cammi

Things are becoming monstrous!!!

Oh no! It's been a month since updating!!! What has been going on you guys?! Who dropped the ball?  I am not about to take any blame for not updating my blog. It's your fault. Oh, what?! Now I'm the bad guy?!! Don't look at me like that. I'm always the bad guy. Ok, enough guilt tripping. I'm sorry. 

Now here is what has been going on. A couple years ago I made these dolls:

I had so much fun making them that I decided to remake them. I sculpted the new ones, molded them, cast them, put magnets in them, and have painted all but Frankenstein's Monster. So this blog post is a heads up to let you know, THEY'RE COMING...

Forgive me,
Cammi