Super Late August Post in AMAZING 3-D !!!
‘Awesome Possum — Custom’
Vivid Plastic Toys invited me to make a Custom Munny for ‘The Lovely Lowbrow Toy Show’ which opened earlier this month in Akron. This marks my first attempt at a custom Munny, (or a custom anything for that matter). Excitement, of course, ensues.
Cleveland is secretly rich with 3-D artist whose work I’ve less than secretly been envious of for awhile now. Some of the things these people manage to do with a non-assuming lump of clay is somewhat disturbing. I draw a lot of inspiration from the successes ambitious artist and they served as a good motivating factor when my chance at the third dimension came.
In college my attempts at making three dimensional pieces, while not entirely unsuccessful, all ended in misadventure and misfortune as they were shattered, smashed and exploded respectively. Quite the troubling legacy to bear, I assure you.
No less and never one to learn from my mistakes, I took on the task of sculpting once more. I modeled the Munny off an OLD painting I made during my second semester of painting in Spring of 2006. The original painting had the catchy title of “An Awesome Possum Hung From the Moon Trying to Steal the Stars from the Sky.”
I never did complete that original painting, but I managed to build the Munny, sculpt to delivery, in six days which neatly fit my self-inflicted tight deadline of six days.
As for the “AMAZING 3-D !!!” portion of this update, I decided to take a cue from Hollywood and exploit the novelty of stereoscopic imaging. For those of you unfamiliar, stereoscopic images use two pictures of the same object taken from slightly different angles. When the user focuses on the right image with the right eye and the left image with the left eye it will appear to be in a three diminutional space to the brain.
What the heck does that mean? Well, cozy up about ten inches from your computer screen and un-focus your stare while looking at the noses of the possums in the images below. Once they drift apart and overlap to form a third critter in the middle you will be completely amazed by the 3-D Awesome Possum before you. You will also likely think I am some kind of crazy genius. Don’t worry, this is all part of my master plan.
There is a lot more going on right now than just this possum, but as this post is running long I will wait a couple of weeks before catching everyone up. Until then.
