question and answer time um ah here we go um grayson duskwalker
grayson duskwalker wants to know
as a maker who generally focuses on the experience of replication of movie props
have you ever created a prop from literature or have plans to uh yes in fact um absolutely the
one that comes to mind is a hellboy prop i know hellboy is a movie but it's also a comic book and
if you're at all a fan of the hellboy movies you should know that mike mignola
and a team of collaborators has been writing hellboy for dark horse comics for
two plus decades and there's a phenomenal amount of material to go through and it's all great
all of it i love all the bprd all the hellboy comics um so much so that about 10 years or so
ago tim arp and i uh collaborated on some hellboy props that are not in any hellboy movie
uh tim arp is known on the forums as grim tim uh he most famously made the corpse locator amulet
that hellboy uses in hellboy and guillermo like bought it from him at a con before he made hellboy
tim still remembers guillermo meeting him and going grim tim grim tim uh but tim mark and i
were fans of uh some of the early hellboy comics and we made one of the spears and i
can't remember which comic book the spear is from it might be seed of destruction
my knowledge is far from encyclopedic but what we did was uh i had access to a foundry and
tim is a beautiful sculptor and so he made a master form of this spear point to look rusted
and variegated in its texture and then i had a set of these run in bronze and i sent a couple to tim
i kept i think i think i sent him three and i kept three uh this one i gave to guillermo
uh one i this is the third one and this one is allocated for mike mignola i've just never gotten
around to reaching out through mutual contacts to send to weather this and send it to mike
mignola but now that i've mentioned it publicly i think it's time to get it to him because it's
been a while um however i finished one for myself and i actually put it on a sphere um
and here you can see with some uh ass blather weathering compounds i'm really really pleased
with how this looks it feels like a real old old artifact and i l and i love that there's like six
or seven of these in the world and that's it uh yeah we also made one of the nails there's
a there's a nail with an inscription on it one of the comic books um but since we did that
uh oh craig criminy i'm forgetting the name of the company that makes all the beautiful skeleton crew
skeleton crew released a similar nail that actually looks almost identical to ours it's
very funny um thank you for that awesome question grayson dusk walker uh as far as uh literature
i love the elethiometer from his dark materials uh golden compass and and subsequent books i haven't
read the new one but i'm dying to and i've been enjoying this the film and the one from the from
the tv series and they're totally different uh i know i'm talking about movie props i
just i loved that piece when i read it in the books i read the books about 20 years ago um
and i may still make my own elethiometer i don't know i'm getting a 3d printer soon
uh my first yeah i know i'm a little late to this game
um and maybe an elite theometer of my own design will be part of one of the things that i do um
let's see here joe need bala wants to know your father was an animator he says
and we know that you have a huge love for hayao miyazaki but what sort of animation did you enjoy
in your youth was it just just bugs bunny and the usual stuff kids our age watched or did you get
to experience more diverse stuff via your dad yeah i did absolutely get to see more diverse
animation because my dad not only was my dad an animator and for reference my dad was one of the
first animated by sesame street in the late 60s early 70s to provide animations for the the sesame
street television show so in the 70s he raised us by doing uh two or three spots every year probably
over 40 or 50 over the full scope of his uh of his work with them um but he also had a lot of
friends who were animators and i grew up seeing a lot of their work as well i saw uh stop motion
animation i was obsessed with will vinton um famous the most famous thing will vinton's shop
did is the california raisins but oh my god that is so not at all the full scope of what
will vinton did they did some incredible stuff um they did a documentary about will vinton that's
also in claymation that includes claymation mold models of will vinton and oh amazing things um
i also uh being a child of the 80s i was in new york i was living in
new york when spike and mike's festival of animation started
coming out and i would go to that every year and see some unbelievable stuff um
the most affecting i mean animation to me as a kid i still remember this being like
71 72 with the babysitter and scrolling through the channels and seeing you know live action live
action live action animation stop right there like any time you saw animation it was time to
stop and watch that thing no matter what it was um so animation always meant kid stuff
but i think the one that i felt most affected by was wiley coyote yeah i mean is it any wonder i
basically made a living as wiley coyote jamie and i carrie tori and grant all being wiley
coyote for the better part of a decade and a half uh that show that specific show uh
along with pink panther because both pink panther and wiley coyote were true surrealist masterpieces
in the most wonderful deep sense in the world
of the word surrealism oh wow okay so something just occurred to me
um if you're a fan of comics and the history of comics uh i would submit that perhaps one
of the greatest comics ever written in the history of comics is crazy cat with 2ks um
crazy cat ran a new in united states papers for 20 or 30 years i have all of the collections of
all the crazy cats and they are also surrealist masterpieces they follow uh ignatz the mouse as
he attempts to woo and also harm his the love and enemy of his life crazy cat it's completely
indecipherable um allegiances change frame to frame genders shifts frame to frame but also
the background uh harriman i think it's george harriman am i right about that george harriman who
wrote crazy cat was big fan of the southwest and specifically in the 20s and 30s was super moved by
um some of the mysticism he encountered traveling in those parts of the of the american southwest
and some of the native americans he met and i believe that really influenced the way he drew
his comics so that landscapes are all shifting sometimes in colors and sometimes an actual
form behind the main characters and i'm telling you all this about crazy cat because
it strikes me that chuck jones that the level of surrealism in crazy cat is very analogous to the
kind of surrealism that's in in wiley coyote cartoons which also take place in the grand
monopoly of the american southwest uh i never had never occurred to me until i was talking about
that just now i hope that's some kind of answer to your question joanie bala um let's see you