Ray Harryhausen

Making Talos Awakes - Part 20 of 20 TIG welding Talos Although tungsten inert gas (TIG) welding is a relatively difficult welding method, when performed by a skilled operator it…

Making Talos Awakes - Part 19 of 20 Ceramic shell investment Now that the wax tree is assembled, it is ready for coating in the ceramic shell. The tree is…

Making Talos Awakes - Part 18 of 20 Mould making We decided to make jacket moulds - a similar technique to Ray’s - for moulding the two halves of the…

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…