SavageGoldfish
December 30th, 2009, 01:44 PM
I've been looking around for a decent varnish for sculpey. In particular, a matte finish I can put on over the paint to protect it. (Varnishes I have attempted to use in the past have turned my sculptures into sticky hairy dust magnets) I have tried Shellac on some smaller things, it seems to be fine, but it says it's for wood so I haven't put it on any of my larger, serious sculpts.
Also looking something high-gloss for a sculpt I'm going to be starting which involves lots of slime. I've had some luck with glossy clear nail varnish for making eyes, etc, look shiny, but it's not quite the high gloss I'd like for the slime monster I'll be making.
In a totally unrelated query, I was wondering if anyone out there has any good reference, instructional, resources, websites, etc, for making stop motion puppets, or any advice on good instructional DVDs or books I could look for? I have wanted to mess around with stop motion forever, and recently got a chance to do some claymation for a friend's film school project. Which only made me want to do more with stop-motion, and some higher-quality more serious puppets, but I don't really know where to start as far as building a skeleton/armature, what materials to use, etc.
Also looking something high-gloss for a sculpt I'm going to be starting which involves lots of slime. I've had some luck with glossy clear nail varnish for making eyes, etc, look shiny, but it's not quite the high gloss I'd like for the slime monster I'll be making.
In a totally unrelated query, I was wondering if anyone out there has any good reference, instructional, resources, websites, etc, for making stop motion puppets, or any advice on good instructional DVDs or books I could look for? I have wanted to mess around with stop motion forever, and recently got a chance to do some claymation for a friend's film school project. Which only made me want to do more with stop-motion, and some higher-quality more serious puppets, but I don't really know where to start as far as building a skeleton/armature, what materials to use, etc.