Sadly for me this is where the problems started. For some reason the food cast kept getting stuck in the mold and kept ripping. This led...

I refilled the molds and went again, this time making sure it was completely full. And luckily for me it worked. Next i trimmed the...

When opening my molds this morning i found that non of them had set properly and where ripped or just to fused together. I have no idea...

With the skin layer set i moved onto casting the full hand and leg. Once again i mixed 5% catalys with silicone but this time filled the...

Now with the molds made i began to cast my arms and legs. To begin i mixed some silicone with black paint to make a nice pain grey,...

After my first mold failure i began to re-suclpt the cat leg. I the made a new mold but this time i made sure to make a two part mold....

here is a basic head sculpt of my boys head. this will be baked and painted.

here i redone my leg sculpt and mold :( hopefully this is the first and last thing i need to redo,

today i brought my puppet to life with some grey fur. origanly this was going to be blue however when it arrived the colour was way to...

today i sculpted the head around the head core adding texture and making a groove to add the nose later. after sculpting i took the head...

yesterday i made the second half of my moods, repeating the same process as before. over all the moods worked quite well but they where...

with my moods setting i moved onto the little boys clothes. to do this i covered the foam with clingfilm and masking tape. This Aloud me...

Molds, Molds, Molds across the board. today i was getting all my sculpt into molds. i began by covering half of my sculpts with...

next using super sculptie i sculpted around my armatures creating arms and legs. these are now all ready for me to start making the mods.

the last couple of days i have been doing a few jobs, as you can see above.

after attaching the boys head i done a very similar process with the head. however, before doing this i decided to remake my cat...

today i wanted to make the head and boy one. to do this i cored out the head and added a piece of k&s, i also made sure to set it in...

now I'm back from work experience all systems go!! and time to pad my puppet. here i would layers and layers of foam around my little boy...

Lucky me, i have been offered two weeks work experience at Aardman!! so no work to post this week, but not long and until i will have...

with the boys head core made i copied the process but now with my little kitty cat. this might need to be a bit smaller...