Introducing COMMANDER GORGO!

Been a while since I've posted on the 'ole TripleChimp blog, so I figured I might as well make this a substantial post (and one I'll hopefully update as my work progresses) so apologies for the lengthy post. As you guys know, I'm currently working on my graduate thesis film here at UT Austin. It's a narrative film (no documentary again for me for a while...) about two rivaling brothers all wrapped up in a Nintendo-esque, 8-bit fantasy aesthetic. The film culminates with a drop-down, drag-out fight between the brothers which sparks my grand finale. These brothers play vids together, and have all throughout their lives. It's their arena... and all that that entails. The "last boss" of THE game they played, is a cosmonaut pig-monster named "Commander Gorgo." Gorgo goes from being, essentially, the devil on the younger brother's shoulder to his anxiety/anger incarnate. And while he appears throughout the film as an 8-bit sprite, we'll see him "in the flesh" at the end of the film. To that end, I'm currently working on a sculpt for a fully animatronic Gorgo head. He'll be around 7 ft tall when finished and only the head will be animatronic.

Here's the final design for Commander Gorgo.


Progress pics after the jump! Click on the pics for the GIGANTO versions. And remember, he'll have his cosmonaut cap once he's done...

Here he is from about five days ago. He's sporting some temporary tusks cast out of plastic resin (like the eye goggles), but they'll be replaced with tusks cast from dental acrylic for translucency and added realism.


His eyes were scratch-built out of plastic sake cups and scrap styrene, molded in RTV rubber silicone, and cast in polyurethane resin.


Here's the latest update. Been working details onto the chin and lips. His tusks were removed to make it easier to sculpt the mouth. I really want his skin to look "hard" and gnarly with creases that almost look like scar tissue.


And one final shot of the head as it stands as of the writing of this post. Right now I'm working my way up his face. Next is the nose and his cheekbones.


More updates as the sculpt progresses. Deadline for the sculpt is this friday! See you next time...