- Jess and I are gonna put together,
we've got this prototype that we just cut out of
(shuffling)
upholstery foam.
And we're gonna put this together with 74 spray.
And this is only a prototype.
We just wanna see if these pieces work.
So, we've got the lower jaw here.
We've got the upper jaw, the top of the head.
So, we're just gonna throw
these pieces together really quick.
And if it feels like it,
if you wanna roll a trash can over quick.
Always wanna make sure that this is spraying
the right way, as far as the nozzle,
the flare on the foam. (clattering)
And the best way is to spray it
(whooshing) into the trash can
so you don't get a ton of over-spray.
I'll do this on the table, though, so you guys can see.
(whooshing)
But I want, again,
that big web to the, I don't know
if you can see it as well on camera, with the web.
(murmuring)
Yeah, you'll wanna coat it.
So, you've got your nozzle here
(light scraping)
comin' outta the can.
Nice drawing of a can.
But when the spray glue comes out,
it's got this big, arching web that narrows down.
You wanna be using about this part of the web, here.
You don't wanna be using down here, 'cause again,
this just turns into a big gloppy mess if you do that.
More glue doesn't mean it's gonna work better for you.
You wanna use the glue like that, so it's a nice web.
(whooshing)
And that's all of the glue that we're gonna use.
I'm just fanning this out.
Why don't you do the front of these pieces, here.
(whooshing)
I wanna make sure this is sticky and tacky.
What I usually do is I start with an edge.
I don't just try to go straight into a piece.
Start at the edge
(rustling)
and fold that over.
Now that I've got that glued to the table.
And then just walk that up to the next edge,
and walk these pieces up.
And sometimes what I'm doing,
especially if it's L200, because of the amount of tension,
these wanna pull away from each other.
These pieces of foam in the L200, they wanna be flat.
So you're forcing 'em into a curve.
You can see there's a slight curve here.
And so sometimes, I just turn that inside-out.
And so that curve is working more with itself now.
So that's our lower jaw for right now.
We got that piece put together.
And again, sometimes I just fold that inside out,
where you get a little bit gentler curve there.
And then what we're gonna do, this is our
(thump) top of the head, here.
So, our idea is that.
Let's go, you wanna grab the maquette?
Let's take a look at that.
(murmuring)
I think we're gonna have this round around
to the back here, so we'll try that.
Okay.
Why don't you stick those two ends together.
- Just like that?
- Yup!
And again, with these pieces,
obviously we need palates in here,
'cause this is our lower jaw.
And you can see the way that this kinda juts out here.
So once we glue that, that's our lower jaw.
But what we need is a base here,
and we need a palate on the inside.
So we'll lay this out.
And, over a piece of paper, we just gotta do this next,
trace this out and cut it.
So we'll use (rustling)
this piece of paper right here.
And again, this is just kind of a prototype
to see if our idea is working for the head.
So we don't have to be dead on right now.
We can always alter our pattern.
(light scraping)
But what I like to do here is, I'm just kinda
getting a bird's-eye view of the jaw
the way I want that to look.
And I'm only doing it from one side.
And this is our center point.
So then, what I like to do...
(rustling)
Is folding this on the line so we get
some symmetry to our pattern.
And we'll cut this out.
(clicking)
And this will be our pattern
(light scraping) for the
lower portion of the jaw.
Do you wanna grab a piece of upholstery foam?
One inch.
Just have that flop off the table, there.
Alright, (rustling)
so this is that simple pattern
I just made for the lower jaw.
(clattering)
Again, we're not even certain.
This is just a prototype, so we're not even certain
that this is gonna work quite yet.
We can always alter this pattern.
So we'll have this pattern.
And I just like to
(light scraping)
go in,
label what's going on here,
so that at least we can go back.
You know, maybe we might have to extend this back
a little bit further, so we would extend the pattern.
Maybe this doesn't need to come out quite as far.
Maybe we'll cut this in a little bit.
But we'll start with this idea right here.
(rustling)
You mind cuttin' that out?
(murmuring)
(clicking)
And we'll see how that's working.
(scraping)
Now, as far as the head is concerned,
can turn this upside-down.
What we were looking at here is the way
that this big, it's almost like a triceratops,
where you've got these three big points on the top here.
You can see the side of the head here,
where it goes behind and underneath there.
So here's...
The front of our head right here.
I've got it upside-down right now.
I'll work this along the edge and then bring this in.
Actually, it probably needs to be smaller,
so we're gonna probably cut about that much of that off.
(clicking) And again, this is prototype.
We're using just the regular upholstery foam for doing this,
because upholstery foam is easier to work with.
It's cheaper to work with.
I don't wanna commit this to L200 right away,
because that would be a big expense.
(whooshing)
It's a bigger expense to prototype this in L200
when we're not 100% certain what...
Not that we don't know what we're doing,
but the shape that we want to achieve.
We want to get there a cheaper way.
And it's harder to alter the L200.
Pulling that apart, you can see
with the upholstery foam, here,
is a lot easier to pull apart and alter.
That was kind of a weird cut, so I'm gonna just.
That's still soft enough.
I can pull that apart and change up that angle a little bit.
And what we'll do, (clicking)
since I'm already altering this without altering
our pattern, once we get this prototype finished,
(scratching)
we'll actually go in (clicking)
and completely cut this apart
on all of the seams that we're gluing together.
And then making sure (whooshing)
that we alter our pattern
according to what we've got left over here.
(whooshing)
And again, I'm not real worried right now
about gluing these edges perfectly
or doing double layers of the glue.
Again, this is just our prototype,
and I do wanna be able to pull this apart.
Okay, that's getting closer to what I wanted.
And I have to mark this where I wanna lay down the glue.
I don't wanna just start spraying glue
all over the place on this, just to glue a one inch edge.
So I've got this.
And now I can kind of fold this in half in here
and, almost like an animator,
flip back and forth and see
where I want this to sorta land.
I'll tell ya another trick.
I'm gonna have to show it to ya,
that I've done before for things like this.
I just don't have it right in front of me.
When I've patterned something out on one side
and I wanna transfer it to the other side,
if you get a little spritz bottle
with some alcohol in it, you can spritz that over
where you've just put the Sharpie marks.
And then you can fold that over, press it down.
It'll transfer it onto the other side
so it's a perfect transfer.
I just don't have a spritz bottle in front of me,
but I'll have to make sure I show you guys that.
I was proud of myself when I came up with that.
(light scraping)
So that's the general area that we're gonna do it.
And we know we're gonna go along this edge,
so I just wanna lay down a little bit of this spray glue
(whooshing)
right in that edge.
K, set that aside.
Get the correct edge here.
Gonna do this over the trash can
so I don't completely mess my table up.
(whooshing)
It's always best to do this over a trash can.
If you're holding this in midair,
you're spraying ropes of this glue
out over the floor or over our work mate
and destroying their Jaws shirt.
Hey, we've both got Jaws shirts on today.
- [Assistant] Oh, no way.
(whooshing)
- Did not coordinate that.
Apparently it's Jaws Tuesday.
(shuffling)
So now, just starting at that center line,
I'm gonna start walking this down.
Pull this and stretch it a little bit if I need to.
Yeah, a little off-center.
Luckily, this stays soft a little bit of time.
And you can also pull this apart with a little bit a heat,
if you hit this with a hairdryer.
If you needed to pull something back up,
with the 74 spray, a hairdryer works great on here.
Now...
Not a bad shape.
What I'm seeing here...
Probably could come in a little bit more with this.
So, I'm not gonna do it right now,
just 'cause I'm feeling good about our shape here.
Overall, and obviously when we commit this
to L200, we're gonna end up
cutting down, shaving all this down, rounding this out.
And then we can start detailing all of this
with this type of foam, with upholstery foam.
But one other thing.
Actually, I'm gonna have you start on this guy, would ya?