(hair dryer blowing)
- Gonna work my way along.
Now come on, don't pretend you're not impressed.
So can you see how it's done that look?
Don't know how that's reading on you guys,
can you see it's created this kind of spidery
webby revolting thing?
See look at that.
Now the fact that I mentioned Alien the movie,
hopefully you're looking at that going oh my God,
that's what the eggs looked like in Alien.
And that's exactly it.
I'm gonna do a close up piece here.
Hey Mike, can I borrow you a second?
- [Mike] Yeah.
- Can you just hold that skeleton in this position here
so this camera can get what I'm about to do?
I'm gonna show you guys again,
this is one of those techniques that you're gonna see it
done and then you're gonna wanna practice it.
Hair dryer on, here we go.
Right in this area here.
(hair dryer blowing)
I'm gonna do a piece here now.
(hair dryer blowing)
You have to work fairly quick on this,
and flat areas are better.
(hair dryer blowing)
Okay, thanks Mike.
So you can see very quickly you get a really organic look.
Now I'm just doing it on here right now
to get some glue onto the skeleton.
Normally I would do this afterwards
on the build up area or on the latex.
But I wanted to show you first of all
because normally what you would do is let this dry
or hair dryer it,
and we're gonna put some latex over the top of this
and let that dry as well.
Multitasking, this is dried.
I'm gonna put another three layer of latex on all of these.
This is our third layer going on.
If you guys aren't bored yet,
this is how it's gonna be all day long.
And this is how we're gonna build up our skeleton
from a bare bone skeleton to a withered looking corpse.
So now you're gonna wanna add latex to these,
but you wanna be very gentle with this
'cause these filaments are quite weak.
So what you wanna do is get some latex on your brush
and kind of mop it over the top of these.
It's gonna reinforce all of these organic threads.
What it's also gonna do for you guys at home hopefully
is allow you to see where all the build up is.
I'm really hoping this is a new technique to you guys,
that you're looking at this and saying I've never seen
this done or I've never done that.
Or some of you is going oh yeah,
I've been doing that for years, that's not new,
this is an old technique.
But judging by the reaction I've had from people
while I've been in Los Angeles and when I've shown it
to people, I think it's a pretty English technique
or a set dressing technique rather than make-up effects.
But for this kind of thing, it's great.
So now you can see that it's all on there
and that's gonna dry and go clear.
We'll do another layer and that gives us a nice build up.
And what we're gonna do is the whole skeleton.
We're gonna build up our layers.
Once this is on it's gonna give us a really nice surface
to put our latex on.
And help us build up skinny Bob here.
So let me just do a bit more of that latex-y, Barge-y stuff.
Does anyone have any questions
about what we're doing so far?
Or are you just all dumbfounded and shocked
and stunned beyond belief?
- [Female In Audience] Everybody thinks it's awesome.
- It's cool, right?
Isn't it a great technique, isn't it awesome?
It is, it's fun to do as well.
It's very addictive when you start doing it
you're like whoa look, it's bubbling and ballooning.
And what's great about it is it's just fast.
- [Female Off Camera] Cammy said that she used hot glue
instead of Barge.
Do you recommend doing that?
- Well hot glue you can't paint on it,
that's the only problem.
I'm gonna show you how to paint this stuff
really, really quickly.
I'm gonna show you a painting technique later on
that will blow your minds to paint one of these really fast.
And obviously because hot glue is,
I don't even know what hot glue actually is.
- [Mike] It's kind of more like spider webby
as well, it's not gonna give you a broad surface.
- Yeah but I mean obviously hot glue,
if you're doing the air hot glue thing,
the cob webby thing it's not gonna stick as well.
It's gonna be hard to paint too,
this will allow you to paint too with Copic Ink.
But I don't know, I'm trying to think of what actually
hot glue is made of.
Hot glue sticks, what actually the technical chemical
thing is I don't know.
But like I say I've used hot glue for certain things,
I saw a great technique done a few years ago
by the guys over at K and B on a film called The Island,
where what they were doing is veins,
they did a whole bunch of bodies
that were kinda like in cryostasis
or were genetic clones that were being born.
And if you ever saw those they were skeletons
with all veins and vacuoles and tendons and nerves,
and what they did was they were doing hot glue veins
and ironing them with an iron.
Which I thought was a great technique,
and they made all these great little veins
so that was a cool technique.
(hair dryer blowing)
So we'll do a bunch of this.
(hair dryer blowing)
But it kind of is like the cob webby hot glue technique,
only this sticks.
Like I say what I'm doing now really
just getting a layer of Barge on some of the skeleton
to give us something to stick to.
(hair dryer blowing)
I'll come on this side.
(hair dryer blowing)
Turn that for a second, while I'm doing that
I'm just gonna paint some Barge onto this
so that it's a bit quieter
and I can talk to you guys while I'm doing it.
- [Female Off Camera] Collier was wondering
if you're using RD407 latex to make the nurnies?
- Am I using what, what was the question?
I didn't hear it.
- [Female Off Camera] If you're using RD407 latex
for the nurnies?
- RD407 latex, Mike Regan's saying yes.
Is that right, are we, I don't know.
- [Mike] It's a slip cast latex.
Slip cast latex.
I don't know the technical terms of this stuff,
Collier good Lord, what do you want from me?
Slip casting latex, that's how I've always bought it.
It's never been described to me any differently
so if it's milky, it's kind of thick
and it's used for casting rubber masks,
that's the stuff you wanna be using.
You're more technically knowledgeable than I am
knowing the names and things.
I found that over the years to be honest
because every six months they change the names of everything
or they give it a new number and a new thing
that by the time I got into my 30s I was still referring
to things by their old names,
and I came from England as well
where we had a whole different terminology of things.
Even asking for things like cotton buds
where people were like what do you mean,
what's a cotton bud.
And you're like oh a tongue depressor or a mixing stick
and everything had a different name.
So yes, whatever you said I'm sure it's the right one
Collier, but slip casting latex.
- [Female Off Camera] Veronica would like to know
if you could use this cob webbing technique
with liquid latex?
- It won't blow.
You're gonna use the liquid latex afterwards,
can you see how we've done the liquid latex here?
But it won't blow.
The only thing that has this,
see I'm saying this to Veronica but Veronica's the one
who goes out there and then tests it afterwards.
The latex isn't gonna web like the adhesive does.
I mean if you just blow latex it's just gonna spatter off
into chunks, you're not gonna get this organic-y vapor.
So no I'm gonna say definitely not.
Yes you can do the brush technique
that you did with the cuts without using an airbrush,
but no this contact adhesive technique
has to be done with contact adhesive.
- [Mike] It dries as it's going on.
- Because there's something about it
where just the nature of it is it blows and bubbles
and does its thing.
And you need this layer of adhesive on it anyway.
The thing about it is if you just do latex
on top of a skeleton it's gonna all wanna peel off.
The adhesive layer that we're doing first
kind of lets the latex bite onto it.
Like I say normally I don't do the blown technique first,
normally I do some builder with some latex
and some tissue, but I wanted to show you guys
the technique straight away.
And you are gonna get through quite a lot of it.
I'm gonna do the hip area, right around here.
We're gonna do a lot of build up on here
but again I'm gonna show you this technique.
I figure the more I can show you, the better.
Latex over here has gone off,
I'm gonna come back to that and I'm gonna show you nurnies
and then we're gonna do some latex manipulation.
- [Female Off Camera] Stephanie was wondering
if you can hot glue veins onto the skeleton.
- You can, I'd rather you made veins out of latex.
The veins out of hot glue,
they're gonna be a pain to stick on.
You could kind of paint them on with the hot glue gun
if you'd like, but the only problem with that
is they're not gonna take the dye
that we're gonna use later on.
You can't really paint hot glue.
It's always gonna go whatever color,
it's that natural kinda milky color,
it's gonna be that color.
Paint's gonna rub off it, if you tint it
or if you get black hot glue or blue hot glue
it's gonna be that color.
So try it if you want to,
but I would rather you made veins out of nurnies
and kind of put those on it
if you really wanna put veins on it.
So again, I kind of stay away from the hot glue
a little bit.
Not a big fan of hot glue.
(hair dryer blowing)
So we're gonna be right in here, onto this area.
Again this is more of the same.
(hair dryer blowing)
Again the good areas to focus on are these ones
with these metal pins, you wanna hide those pins
and get some stuff over those,
be it latex or contact cement or anything that builds up
over the hardware to hide it is a good thing.
(hair dryer blowing)
I just wanted to show you more of that in the flat areas,
but again what I'm really trying to do right now
is just get a layer of glue onto some of this area
'cause we're gonna be gluing foam to this
and then we're gonna be doing the same technique
over the top of the foam.
So get some of this on.
And again what I mean by multitasking
usually is it's a posh word for me
to say letting things dry, rather than waiting for latex
to dry or waiting for contact cement to dry
or waiting for paint to dry.
If you can be doing another task
while something is drying, I think that's really useful.
I talked about this in my first lesson,
there's nothing worse than having an employee
or a technician who's basically standing there
with a fan pointed at something
saying I'm waiting for this thing to dry.
It's like well it's gonna dry naturally,
you know and rather than burning the hair dryer out
which I'm sure you've all done,
you know had the hair dryer go click
and stop working 'cause it's burnt out the fuse.
You know, let just a flow of air do it
and walk away and do something else.
So there's a layer of Barge on pretty much most of that.
And obviously you would do the back as well,
maybe we'll do some of the back too.
Again, when we're using the Barge or any contact cement
make sure you have good ventilation
'cause you are gonna get pretty woozy.