Author: Ben Southwell

Making Talos Awakes - Part 17 of 20 General modelling tasks I first cut back any remaining traces of the mould seam lines from the restoration stage. The animation model’s…

Making Talos Awakes - Part 16 of 20 Reshaping the lower back I needed to carry out extensive work to reshape the lower back into the convex twisting curve of…

Making Talos Awakes - Part 15 of 20 Attempts to heat-bend the elbows through 90° resulted in forms that were too rounded. So instead, I cut forearm sections from donor…

Making Talos Awakes - Part 14 of 20 I modelled the hips in Plasticine (below left) and took a plaster mould of the form (right). I then cut a skirt…

Making Talos Awakes - Part 13 of 20 I turned my attention back to the upper body once I'd completed the construction of the legs. I'd already heat-bent the neck…

Making Talos Awakes - Part 12 of 20 It had been possible to bend or rotate the joints described in the previous post (the neck, shoulders and right ankle). However,…

Making Talos Awakes - Part 11 of 20 Simon and I had to work out how to sculpt the Talos Awakes figure using the cast skin of the restored animation…

Making Talos Awakes - Part 9 of 20 Paying close attention to film footage of Talos’ upper arms in Jason and the Argonauts, I restored detail missing from his deltoid…

Making Talos Awakes - Part 8 of 20 Ray's Talos sculpture In the 1990s Ray made a sculpture of Talos as the original had fallen into a poor state and…

Making Talos Awakes - Part 7 of 20 Left foot sandal straps repairs Shin grafts Two small sections of Talos’ shin below the sandal strap had split and moved outwards.…