Armatures - Tiki Technical Tuesday 30
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ส.ค. 2024
- For today’s Tiki Technical Tuesday we take a deep dive into building the skeletons that help clay sculptures keep their shape: armatures!
Watch us put together an armature for the newest VanTiki studio mug using a combination of digital design, laser cutting, 3D printing, and lots of glue. A big thank you to @biggsstudio for the 3D printing help!
Please subscribe - it means the world to me! Mahalo for watching, as always, put your questions in the comments and I’ll drop my best to answer.
I love that Pier Post Bob is watching over you.
😂 - that is my gallery of factory seconds and glaze tests
I'd like one of those jack-o-lantern mugs.
That is my Coco-Skull mug! Sadly the edition ended years back.
Excellent travail ,~~~~
I'm getting ready to make my first slip casting molds for my second ever production run, watching the Technical Tuesday videos to mentally/technically prepare. I've made many plaster molds and casts in the past for non ceramics, but watching this video of the Volcanic Vapor mug being made gave me a little aha moment.
That being your process is very very polished, but also very expensive (relatively speaking) . As a perfectionist, I strive for that hyper "polished" finish as I'm thinking about the mother mold, the countless molds made from that, and any production pieces that result, and I just can't stop refining my first models. I think the time I've spent is fine (two days), but I see myself spending another 2 on smoothing which I rather be pouring plaster. Long story short, returning to the videos again to see what you used for smoothing the monster clay after 1 hour and a half of research at to wether my clay and monster clay are chemically similar :D yay production lol
p.s. when speaking about the pieces being "polished", as I keep returning to the modeling of different mugs I just wonder how they look so perfect, like objects that feel as if they existed independent of the maker, idk if that makes sense, but a large part of that comes from just how technical the construction of the model is, which takes a LOT of tools and resources most small and emerging production artists don't have.But I'm trying to figure out the cheat code :)
Thank you so much for watching!
I definitely strive for polished sculptures and clean molds in the studio, as I think doing both makes production easier in the long run. To get a sculpture looking polished (either a smooth surface or a natural texture) I don’t think it’s a matter of expensive tools, but more a matter of time. All the sculptors I admired working in the film industry spent 25% of the time sculpting the main forms, then 75% of the time detailing and surfacing. Unfortunately that is the bit that rarely gets shown on social media 😄
For molds, I agree that silicone is expensive, but when you calculate the cost vs the return (multiple castings, a safe backup of your master mold) silicone is a great investment. Urethane is a lower cost alternative, but it has its own tricky issues that can be catastrophic when molding (moisture inhibition, not releasing from the model, etc). Back in college I made my silicone molds with silicone caulk from Home Depot 😁
Love the new format!
Thank you! We will be sticking with widescreen from here on out
Next level amazingness!
thank you!
Well now I have laser cutter envy! Looking forward to the next steps!
It is an amazing tool, I must admit!
Excellent work as always! Love the information and presentation that you bring to every video. Keep up the good work! Cannot wait till you post a technical on making multi part molds, I still can't figure out how you get them sooo smooth. School us!
Thank you! The secret to smooth molds is lots of planning, and lots of scraping and sanding 😄
Can’t wait to see the final sculpture!!
Fab Crafts and More me too!
This is gonna be great! I can't wait to see how it works...👍
Thanks man! I hope my plan works 🤞
cant wait to see the final sculpt! Armature came out great!
Couldn’t have done it without your help! (Well, I could have - but it would have taken waaaaaaay longer and wouldn’t have been as squeaky clean & crisp!)
Awesome! Can’t wait to see the sculpt!
Thank you! I can’t wait to get started on it!
Can't wait to see it all together so cool!!! super excited to see how it comes out :)
Thank you!
Can't wait to see where you go with the sculpt! Already love it :)
I can t wait to start it!
Great vid as always, I much prefer watching these on TH-cam in landscape! Can't wait to see the sculpt
Same!!
SaintIsz looks like landscape is the way to go - but I have to keep the studio clean! I hate how you can see the full garbage can in some shots 😂
Great video, always enjoy seeing other artists' processes! That hornbill at the beginning 😍😍😍
Thank you! That’s my Jungle Bird mug - one of my favorites!
@@vantikistudio I own it in Cinnabar, it was my holy grail mug 😬 fingers crossed I'll get my hands on a Sunset colorway someday
Love it! As a huge aficionado of both tiki and vintage psychedelia this mug is definitely going to be a must have 😍
You mean you have guessed what it will be?! 😂
I love the engineering detail combined with artistic vision. Kudos my friend... I'd like to order mine now. "Whatever it might be"
Thank you! I do enjoy dreaming up new ways to put the mugs together 😃
I love this video! Thank you! So cool to watch and learn.
Jeff Musial thank you for watching!
😍 I can’t wait to see the progress next week
I can’t wait to start sculpting!
As always I look forward to TTT with you. Thanks for showing us all the hard work that goes into your tiki mugs and for sharing your knowledge. This is blake_n_stuff from IG 🤙🏼
Thank you so much - mahalo for watching!
Will there be a possible decanter version?
Ooooo! Good idea! I think we may have to make that happen.