I feel you! I’ve been shooting since January, but felt I couldn’t share the process without finishing the projects. I’ve realized that isn’t the case. Expect a new episode soon!
Thank you! I have nothing against digital sculpting and 3D printing. They are just different tools. I remember being scorned in college by classmates when stone carving for using pneumatic tools - as if it was more “pure” to only use hand tools for carving. I feel if I jumped in a time machine and gave Michelangelo a pneumatic chisel he’d be overjoyed! 😄 In the end, it’s all about the form and the design - bad sculpture can be made in either clay or on the computer. For me the draw to digital is the ability to rapidly re-scale your work. For example, it would be a HUGE effort to make my clay claw 10% bigger - but it is a click of a button on the computer. The Makeup Effects pioneer Rick Baker is sharing some incredible personal work on Instagram, where he will sculpt pieces in clay, scan the forms, then modify on the computer. It’s exciting stuff!
I'm a wood worker by trade. I make tea trays, tables and various other tea related items. I've ALWAYS wanted to design and create my own teapots but am NOT a potter, nor do I really want to go the pottery wheel route. I kind of just stumbled into the idea of a slipcast teapot when a friend gave me a VERY rough slipcast pot from India. It reads as a bad children's tea set BUT it inspired me to pursue making slipcast pots and your channel has been SUCH and inspiration! And you're in Oregon! So close. Love the work youre doing and your open, eager, organized approach. It very much propels my dreams and desire to create my own teaware designs and share them with the world! Cheers! I raise a cup to you good sir.
Cheers and thank you! I have the same feelings as you about the pottery wheel - I love what people make with them, but the tool just didn’t grab me. I hand built my mugs for years before getting the courage to attempt slipcasting. Best of luck with your teapots - I’m certain they will be great!
I think it was the PreCambrian where Crabs got HUGE, like 20 feet across. Pretty sure it was the inspiration for the giant crab in a lot of scifi stories. All I'm thinking of, is my childhood on the Gulf Coast and eating crab claws, endless baskets of crab claws.
Cool! My grandparents had a ceramic shop when was a kid. (About 45 years). I was always curious about ceramic. The number one thing my daughter and I do together is arts and crafts. I’m glad I found this channel!
The creation and use of the Foamcore template is BRILLIANT! Really opened my eyes to the potential of using creative methods to transfer 2D concepts into 3D! Thanks!!
very happy to have discovered your channel, I have been making slipcast porcelain vases and have struggled to find the right material for my prototypes. I just ordered some Monster Clay and then your channel popped up. The ceramic studio I've been working out of encouraged soft clay prototypes which are too fragile for 6 part molds which a lot of my vases require. I'm hopeful the wax based clay will be the right fit and allow me to make better molds as I too hope to offer my work in limited editions.
I’m so glad you found my channel! Best of luck with the clay - it is very temperature dependent so keep your studio temperature in mind when selecting the firmness of the clay
These are so fascinating to watch! You’ve quickly become a part of my night time routine, always watch a video before bed! Keep em coming, can’t wait to see how the final product turns out 😁
I saw on a video about a plaster supply problem , as a retired dental technician and purchasing agent I just wanted to know if you use Georgia Pacific plasters? Check your specs against their dental plasters and see if any of them might do. The expansion was within pottery plaster specs but the set times were a bit different . I spent years using fast set plaster in a much dryer mix to mount things quickly in small batches , it's very interesting to see such a liquid form with such a long set time. Love the show as a feeder of squirrels I love your fountain for our outdoor friends.
Aloha! We used several dental gypsum mixes back when I was a special effects artist. Most are very dense - while they are wonderfully strong and have almost no shrinking/expansion, the density makes them not the best for slipcasting. It’s the porosity of the pottery plaster that wicks the water out of the slip. Thank you for feeding the squirrels!
This came out amazing!!! Fantastic work!! When you have the camera mounted on your turntable in the stop motion, it can get pretty nauseating with everything in the background moving so much. Maybe a clean background would work better? Or sticking to static camera Timelapses might be good? I also am very motion sensitive and get nauseous easily so that may just be a “me” problem lol. Beautiful work, I can’t wait to see the finished mugs!!
Sorry for the motion sickness! I liked the turntable mount as it kept the sculpture static - otherwise it is spinning when I do locked off Timelapse shots.
My bet is the removable claw is going to be the straw hole........ Drinking from the end of a claw would have been cool, a little disappointed that you aren't sculpting in chocolate this time.... Be Blessed.
I don’t think this applies to this piece, but I’ve been wondering how you create the bottoms of your mugs. The Van Tiki logo, mug name etc, look too clean to have been carved, but are they? Thanks for all of your videos, they are really great!
Your videos are terrific, Henrik! Not only do your videos sate my thirst for knowledge in the wonderful world of tiki mug making, but you have become my new go-to channel for creative inspiration when I want to make cool stuff but need the mojo push! Thank you for sharing with us! Btw, have you ever used Zbrush? I am curious if you would ever 3D print a master and go from there? Mahalo and Aloha!
Thank you so much for watching! Funny you should ask about zbrush, I’m STRUGGLING my way through an online course. If you know of a good course, please let me know! I’d even drive to California for a multi day class.
@@vantikistudio I happen to be a Zbrush professional and would be happy to answer any questions you would have, if you'd like! If you'll message me I can give you my contact info! Beyond that I have learned everything I know from online tutorials and can direct you to some very valuable ones.
Love your videos!! I've learned so much from you about mold making. Do you ever sculpt with ceramic clay? I just like working with water-based clay since it's easier to work with. The plan is to make silicone or plaster molds from the original sculpture. Thanks in advance and I can't wait to see more!!
Thank you! I have sculpted with water based clay as well. I use the monster clay for smaller detailed pieces - but if I’m working on something large I like to use WED clay by Laguna Clay. Thanks for watching!
I was thrilled to see a video from you today! I have been out of town visiting my Mom who had a stroke a few days ago. She's doing very well, all things considered. So, I am home now, and I enjoyed the heck out of watching this video! I hope you have more coming out very soon! Oh my gosh, you are amazing! I love this! Thank you so much! Lisa
@@vantikistudio Can a slip casting be made from a baked/cured polymer clay sculpture? Missing your videos! Hope you have more coming soon? Thanks so much! Lisa
@@craft-o-matic2377 it can be tricky to make a plaster mold of a baked polymer clay sculpture. You need to be VERY careful about avoiding undercuts, and be sure to release the clay very well to keep it from sticking to the plaster. Hope to have some videos up in the next few weeks! 🤞
@@vantikistudio Thank you! I was afraid of that. What about creating a silicon mold of the polymer clay piece, and then making a plaster mold with the silicon mold? Also, Is it feasible to use the clay you use with a wire and aluminum foil armature?
It's a pleasure to see your work! As always interesting, neat. I love watching you work with different instruments. From a piece of clay with wire to an unusual mug.From Germany with love💖 P.S Your shirts are beautiful as always🎇👕🎆
Damn, crazy minds think alike, Hahaha I was thinking to make it a mug you can put down, one of the pincers should be removable I stopped the video at 3:14 just to put down my giddy thoughts
The master model is sculpted from a wax based clay. It will never dry out or harden and can’t be painted. I keep some of my old sculptures on a shelf where they collect dust - but you really need to make a mold of them and cast the piece in a rigid material if you plan on painting it.
I only use Sculpey and Super Sculpey if I’m going to bake the piece after sculpting it, or if I’m doing a smaller piece. For me It’s expensive to use polymer clay for larger pieces. I’m n the end though, there is no “right” clay - if you like it and enjoy working with it, got for it! 🙂
Your videos make me so happy. I love seeing your process and I love your energy. Thank you for being you.
Thank YOU for watching! I really appreciate it!
The longer I go without a TTT, the more I realize just how much I truly enjoy them. Just sayin'.
I feel you! I’ve been shooting since January, but felt I couldn’t share the process without finishing the projects. I’ve realized that isn’t the case. Expect a new episode soon!
In this day of CAD and 3-D printers, it's a nice change to watch someone create something like this from scratch using their hands.
Thank you! I have nothing against digital sculpting and 3D printing. They are just different tools. I remember being scorned in college by classmates when stone carving for using pneumatic tools - as if it was more “pure” to only use hand tools for carving. I feel if I jumped in a time machine and gave Michelangelo a pneumatic chisel he’d be overjoyed! 😄
In the end, it’s all about the form and the design - bad sculpture can be made in either clay or on the computer. For me the draw to digital is the ability to rapidly re-scale your work. For example, it would be a HUGE effort to make my clay claw 10% bigger - but it is a click of a button on the computer. The Makeup Effects pioneer Rick Baker is sharing some incredible personal work on Instagram, where he will sculpt pieces in clay, scan the forms, then modify on the computer. It’s exciting stuff!
I want Vantiki swag that says
"NOT a biologist
NOT a paleontologist
NOT an ancient crabologist"
LOL it cracked me up every time that text showed up
Ha!
I'm a wood worker by trade. I make tea trays, tables and various other tea related items. I've ALWAYS wanted to design and create my own teapots but am NOT a potter, nor do I really want to go the pottery wheel route. I kind of just stumbled into the idea of a slipcast teapot when a friend gave me a VERY rough slipcast pot from India. It reads as a bad children's tea set BUT it inspired me to pursue making slipcast pots and your channel has been SUCH and inspiration! And you're in Oregon! So close. Love the work youre doing and your open, eager, organized approach. It very much propels my dreams and desire to create my own teaware designs and share them with the world! Cheers! I raise a cup to you good sir.
Cheers and thank you! I have the same feelings as you about the pottery wheel - I love what people make with them, but the tool just didn’t grab me. I hand built my mugs for years before getting the courage to attempt slipcasting. Best of luck with your teapots - I’m certain they will be great!
These are the episodes I love best, the sculpting ones. It was a long wait since the last episode, but worth it!
Sorry for the wait! Took time off for the holidays. Hope to be back on a schedule of at least an episode a month (hopefully two!)
Thank you, I love watching you sculpt and create molds.
Thank YOU for watching!
The way you capture organic shapes is unmatched!!
Thank you!! I’ve been looking at A LOT of claws lately 😂
No matter how many time I watch. I still love seeing a new mug take form.
Thank you! I do sometimes worry that I’ve shown the process before (albeit with a different form)
I think it was the PreCambrian where Crabs got HUGE, like 20 feet across. Pretty sure it was the inspiration for the giant crab in a lot of scifi stories. All I'm thinking of, is my childhood on the Gulf Coast and eating crab claws, endless baskets of crab claws.
and now I gots a powerful hankering for crab claws.... and tiant narry a place in these forzen hell landscape what has'em.
Well, I’m off to Google pre-Cambrian crabs!
The seed is from a Rudraksha tree (Elaeocarpus ganitrus)sometimes called "blueberry beads".
I absolutely love watching your videos
Thank you!
I could watch these all day! Love this!
Thank you for watching!
"The claaaaawww!" Super rad sculpture! I love the Harryhausen homage and can't wait to see it cast and glazed.
Thank you! I can’t wait either - I’m pouring the first casts in a few days! 🤞
Thank you for sharing all your wisdom!
Thank you for watching!
Great video. Can’t wait to see the mug glazed. Will try to get one.
I can’t wait to glaze one too! Getting up at 5:50am tomorrow to pour the first castings ✨🤞✨
Love the sculpt! I asked Jim Kagel about his style once, and he said something along the lines of "what's the point if you're not exaggerating it?"
That. Is. Awesome!
Cool! My grandparents had a ceramic shop when was a kid. (About 45 years). I was always curious about ceramic. The number one thing my daughter and I do together is arts and crafts. I’m glad I found this channel!
I’m glad you found me also! Thank you so much for watching - I hope I can inspire some projects for you two to tackle!
I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They are awesome !!!!! You have taught me so much!!!!
Thank you!
The creation and use of the Foamcore template is BRILLIANT! Really opened my eyes to the potential of using creative methods to transfer 2D concepts into 3D! Thanks!!
Thank you! It is such a big help for me to plot out shapes. Also, when final size is critical, the template is a must!
Fascinating work as always, this may be my favorite video made by you yet!
Awesome! Thank you!!
very happy to have discovered your channel, I have been making slipcast porcelain vases and have struggled to find the right material for my prototypes. I just ordered some Monster Clay and then your channel popped up. The ceramic studio I've been working out of encouraged soft clay prototypes which are too fragile for 6 part molds which a lot of my vases require. I'm hopeful the wax based clay will be the right fit and allow me to make better molds as I too hope to offer my work in limited editions.
I’m so glad you found my channel! Best of luck with the clay - it is very temperature dependent so keep your studio temperature in mind when selecting the firmness of the clay
Reciently discoverd your channel and love your work . Whatched all the videos and learned so much. Thank you
Thank you! So glad you discovered the channel!
These are so fascinating to watch! You’ve quickly become a part of my night time routine, always watch a video before bed! Keep em coming, can’t wait to see how the final product turns out 😁
I am super excited to see the end result as well!
I love your channel! You are a great teacher.
Thank you so much!
I saw on a video about a plaster supply problem , as a retired dental technician and purchasing agent I just wanted to know if you use Georgia Pacific plasters? Check your specs against their dental plasters and see if any of them might do. The expansion was within pottery plaster specs but the set times were a bit different . I spent years using fast set plaster in a much dryer mix to mount things quickly in small batches , it's very interesting to see such a liquid form with such a long set time. Love the show as a feeder of squirrels I love your fountain for our outdoor friends.
Aloha! We used several dental gypsum mixes back when I was a special effects artist. Most are very dense - while they are wonderfully strong and have almost no shrinking/expansion, the density makes them not the best for slipcasting. It’s the porosity of the pottery plaster that wicks the water out of the slip. Thank you for feeding the squirrels!
I'm in love with the Claw! And love your energy and creativity!
Thank you! ✨🦀✨
This guy reminds me of chef Alton Brown lol.
This came out amazing!!! Fantastic work!!
When you have the camera mounted on your turntable in the stop motion, it can get pretty nauseating with everything in the background moving so much. Maybe a clean background would work better? Or sticking to static camera Timelapses might be good? I also am very motion sensitive and get nauseous easily so that may just be a “me” problem lol.
Beautiful work, I can’t wait to see the finished mugs!!
Sorry for the motion sickness! I liked the turntable mount as it kept the sculpture static - otherwise it is spinning when I do locked off Timelapse shots.
My bet is the removable claw is going to be the straw hole........
Drinking from the end of a claw would have been cool, a little disappointed that you aren't sculpting in chocolate this time....
Be Blessed.
Ha! The claw will be similar to the original claw - you need to flip it to drink from it, and can’t put it down till you’re done!
I don’t think this applies to this piece, but I’ve been wondering how you create the bottoms of your mugs. The Van Tiki logo, mug name etc, look too clean to have been carved, but are they? Thanks for all of your videos, they are really great!
That part of the process I like to keep a ✨mystery✨
Your videos are terrific, Henrik! Not only do your videos sate my thirst for knowledge in the wonderful world of tiki mug making, but you have become my new go-to channel for creative inspiration when I want to make cool stuff but need the mojo push! Thank you for sharing with us! Btw, have you ever used Zbrush? I am curious if you would ever 3D print a master and go from there? Mahalo and Aloha!
Thank you so much for watching! Funny you should ask about zbrush, I’m STRUGGLING my way through an online course. If you know of a good course, please let me know! I’d even drive to California for a multi day class.
@@vantikistudio I happen to be a Zbrush professional and would be happy to answer any questions you would have, if you'd like! If you'll message me I can give you my contact info! Beyond that I have learned everything I know from online tutorials and can direct you to some very valuable ones.
@@vantikistudio I sent you an email (to your junglebird email) regarding Zbrush in hopes to help where I can! 🍹
Love your videos!! I've learned so much from you about mold making. Do you ever sculpt with ceramic clay? I just like working with water-based clay since it's easier to work with. The plan is to make silicone or plaster molds from the original sculpture. Thanks in advance and I can't wait to see more!!
Thank you! I have sculpted with water based clay as well. I use the monster clay for smaller detailed pieces - but if I’m working on something large I like to use WED clay by Laguna Clay. Thanks for watching!
I love the new crab design but cant see how you get the base on your mugs with the text when the model is on a base.
We snuck it on the claw - it was something we puzzled over 😅
I was thrilled to see a video from you today! I have been out of town visiting my Mom who had a stroke a few days ago. She's doing very well, all things considered.
So, I am home now, and I enjoyed the heck out of watching this video! I hope you have more coming out very soon! Oh my gosh, you are amazing! I love this!
Thank you so much!
Lisa
Thank you so much! And I’m so glad your mother is doing well!
@@vantikistudio Can a slip casting be made from a baked/cured polymer clay sculpture?
Missing your videos! Hope you have more coming soon?
Thanks so much!
Lisa
@@craft-o-matic2377 it can be tricky to make a plaster mold of a baked polymer clay sculpture. You need to be VERY careful about avoiding undercuts, and be sure to release the clay very well to keep it from sticking to the plaster. Hope to have some videos up in the next few weeks! 🤞
@@vantikistudio Thank you! I was afraid of that. What about creating a silicon mold of the polymer clay piece, and then making a plaster mold with the silicon mold? Also, Is it feasible to use the clay you use with a wire and aluminum foil armature?
@@craft-o-matic2377 a silicone mold is definitely the safer way to go. And you can absolutely use tinfoil and wire armatures in the monster clay!
Fantastic work and process! Thank you for inspiration
Thank you! And thanks for watching!
It's a pleasure to see your work! As always interesting, neat. I love watching you work with different instruments. From a piece of clay with wire to an unusual mug.From Germany with love💖
P.S Your shirts are beautiful as always🎇👕🎆
Thank you so much! I always try to have a good shirt on for the camera 😁
Damn, crazy minds think alike, Hahaha I was thinking to make it a mug you can put down, one of the pincers should be removable I stopped the video at 3:14 just to put down my giddy thoughts
Good idea!
Yay!!!
What can one do,with a finished piece…is it permanent or do you have to make a cast….can it be painted?
The master model is sculpted from a wax based clay. It will never dry out or harden and can’t be painted. I keep some of my old sculptures on a shelf where they collect dust - but you really need to make a mold of them and cast the piece in a rigid material if you plan on painting it.
is monster clay a lot better than sculpey clay?
I only use Sculpey and Super Sculpey if I’m going to bake the piece after sculpting it, or if I’m doing a smaller piece. For me It’s expensive to use polymer clay for larger pieces. I’m n the end though, there is no “right” clay - if you like it and enjoy working with it, got for it! 🙂
Can I make a pre-order? 🤣 But seriously...
😂
Pre order info is coming soon!
flama loco
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Thank you for sharing all your wisdom! 🙏
Thank you for watching!