Session 5 Alice and Georgina get creative with blue foam and mod rock

For the Uncanny proposal Georgina and I are woking on a green screen sequence that involves a infected wound idea on the characters arm. For this we have had to create a fake arm.

Starting with a piece of moddeling foam we squared off the corners and then mared curved lines in order to make a more cylindrical shape. Upon reflection However we decided to make the bottom of the arm flat making it easier to rig up and create spurting blood or puss. Also the arm is slightly over sized again this will make it easier to create erupting boil type effects with tubing and syringes. The idea we have is to shoot the fake arm in close up so that thesize will not look inrealistic it will just look more detailed. Also as this is our first attempt at creating something like this it is probably going to work better if we work bigger, not getting too fiddley.

squaring off the corners and drawing guide lines for cutting

the block clamped to the work bench after cutting.

After thisstage we filed down the block so that it was more rounded. We also tapered theshape slightly to make it look like a more realistic forearm shape. After this we covered thearm in mod rock and then left it to dry.

Next week we are going to paint it with liquid latex. While the modrock was starting to dry wedid some experimenting with the latex. This is something new to me so it was interesting . We tried different levels of skintone ad white acryllic paint to get the right kind of colour. The first batch was a little 'spent too much time on a sun bed' so we added more white. We also discovered that the colour you mix is different to what i tlook like dried, it was a lot darker, so we also had to judge the differences and mix a pot that dried the right colour.

Test patches of the latex on a foil sheet

A pot of the mixed up lates and skin tone.