Session 6: alice and George get even more creative with dog chews and salt dough

During the session Georgina and I continued to create fake limbs for our film.

The arm, on which the mod rock had dried needed to be coated in liquid lated to give it a texture more like skin. We have decided that the creature type thing that is under the skin will be attempted in after efects. However  we have decided this so we can create a different special effecy. we want to have some sort of bloody pustual eruption coming out of a wound on the arm. So far what we have done to achive this is to drill a hole through the centre of the foam cylinder. Through this we will be able to put tubing through which we can eject fluid.

After the hole was drilled we began to cover the arm in flesh colored liquid latex. Using the knowledge we gained last week from our test we began to build up the layers of latex to create a realistic coating of skin.

Als this week we began to create a fake hand. To do this we began with a latex glove, dog chews and salt dough. To make the hand we bagan by covering the dog chews with salt dough to create finger like structures. We then forced them into the fingers of the glove, moulding them into fingers. After all 5 were in place we began to pack the rest of the glove in order to create a realistic hand shape. Because of the dog chews the hand has some bone like structure. This also means that when the finger is sliced it will have a barried that will look more realistic than cutting through play dough.

We also fed a tube into the finger that will be cut of so we can pump fake blood through to create a gory spurt when the finger is cut. After wh had consructed the hand, we 'dressed' it in a shirt sleave and began to add flesh colured liquid latex than we had used on the arm.

All in all this session I think as very producive and I have learned a lot about the art of prosthetics and setting up special effects.