{"id":1068,"date":"2015-02-10T16:55:39","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T22:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ivan-james.com\/?p=1068"},"modified":"2015-02-11T09:42:44","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T15:42:44","slug":"slinging-clay-and-splashing-latex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ivan-james.com\/?p=1068","title":{"rendered":"Slinging clay and splashing latex&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long time no post. Sorry, but life&#8217;s been&#8230; life! So when I first envisioned this site, I thought it would solely be comics focused. That then morphed into including puppets. Now &#8211; may as well add SFX creature creations to the list! I blame my creative wandering spirit. <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, in June I signed up for a mask making class with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kosarteffects.com\/\">Kosart Atelier<\/a>. In addition to meeting awesome people and having a whole new world opened up to me, I came away with Lazak&#8217;Tar! Here is how he came together. <\/p>\n<p>Initial Design:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ivan-james.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_0961.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/ivan-james.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_0961.jpg\" alt=\"(null)\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sculpt:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ivan-james.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_1130.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/ivan-james.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_1130.jpg\" alt=\"(null)\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ivan-james.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_1124.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/ivan-james.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_1124.jpg\" alt=\"(null)\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mold:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ivan-james.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_1168.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/ivan-james.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_1168.jpg\" alt=\"(null)\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cast:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ivan-james.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_1218.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/ivan-james.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_1218.jpg\" alt=\"(null)\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All in all the process was awesome and I loved learning all about it. I&#8217;m hooked. Going from never touching clay in my life to coming out with Lazak&#8217;Tar, I was pretty proud for my first at bat. Can&#8217;t wait to make more!<\/p>\n<div class=\"facebook-like\"><fb:like layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" href=\"http:\/\/ivan-james.com\/?p=1068\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long time no post. Sorry, but life&#8217;s been&#8230; life! So when I first envisioned this site, I thought it would solely be comics focused. That then morphed into including puppets. Now &#8211; may as well add SFX creature creations to [&hellip;] <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/ivan-james.com\/?p=1068\">&darr; Read the rest of this entry&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ivan-james.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ivan-james.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ivan-james.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ivan-james.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ivan-james.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/ivan-james.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1100,"href":"http:\/\/ivan-james.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions\/1100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ivan-james.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ivan-james.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ivan-james.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}