The Creature - reshoot

A reshoot of The Creature


is having a before and after photo makeover contest [link] and I have been meaning to re-photograph this Creature for years now so I decided to ... just do it! It was hard work, let me tell you. Getting decent photos of something large, has painful details, and swings on marionette strings in the slightest breeze AND with a curious cat in the same room is not easy! (Though I like the photo with Loki to show the size. ^^)

I hope it looks better now! At least a little?
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Real description:

The Creature you see before you is the product of about three years of my life. I started it my junior year in high school and finished it my second year in college! It was sparked by a dream I had of this strange creature...

After designing all the pieces, I carved them out of styrofoam. Then I covered them with paper clay, painted them with acrylics (in designs inspired by Alebrijes -- look it up if you want to see awesomeness), and assembled them with beads and wire and springs. The joints were so loose I had to make it into a marionette. From head to tail's tip, it's about a yard long and from the top of the head to the tips of its feet, it's about 20 inches. The eyes are glass.