A place for monsters

Hi everyone! I have missed you all so much. It seems like a year since my last visit. You have all been very busy I see. Wonderful posts everyone. From pigs to pendents and creatures in the sea you all amaze me. I love everything you have created. I haven't felt very artistic just yet, but I did try a sculpt last night. I'm afraid he is not the best, but I have to get back to what I love somehow. So here is my Blue monster. I used Gigi's fantastic new Spirograph filter v5 as the back ground and Gene's Crazy Grain to make everything very graphic. Sorry he isn't the best, but I will get better.

Hi SpaceRay. I have missed you too. I see you have been busy yourself with some new filters. Good to see you creating. Thank you for the post in the sad news thread. I hope to be getting back to some sort of "normal" very soon.

He's got funny ears
I wonder if they gave him a hard time in school for that, or if on his planet these ears are considered sexy

OK, Here is a photo of my pendant as created by Shapeways. The wavy look comes from a slight surface roughness. That is, I guess, an effect of the printing process which the material is somehow (I think it is magic) melted in the shape of the obj file. They have lots of different materials. The white one on the left is a dense plastic and it about 2 inches high. The smaller one is about 1 inch high and was formed in and aluminum filled material. I have a really good imagination, but when I was a kid if someone had told me a guy could sculpt something on a computer and poof suddenly it's a solid object, I would have said they were crazy .... Showing my age I guess ......

Gigi, I guess my own sadness leaked into the sculpt. I didn't notice that until you mentioned it. But I guess monsters feel sad sometimes too.

Morgan, those ears are the sexiest on his planet. This guy is considered the Brad Pitt of his kind.

Gene when I was in my 20's (many moons ago LOL) there was a local TV station out of Columbus that aired a show ever Friday night. It was called the night owl. This guy wore huge owl like glasses and showed 2 or 3 B-monster movies. I never missed a Friday night showing. The "Night Owl" would play smooth jazz in the background and talk about the movies he was showing as well as the jazz he was playing during the breaks. Loved that show so much I even wrote and asked for an autographed photo of him, and to my surprise he sent me one. LOL He showed all kinds of monster and sci-fi movies and I ate it all up. It's no wonder why I love making monsters now. Some of those movies were so bad, I would roar with laughter at them. I would love to see some of those old 50's Drive-in fodder again. That was real good fun entertainment.

Now to your pendents. When are you going to start selling them? And put me at the very top of the list to buy some. A couple of those 1 inch tiki's would look very great hanging from my ears. I'm not kidding. I would love a pair of those for earrings. Those are really awesome.

Nice pendants Gene, well done.

I don't know what it is, but it seems like an alien mouse below. I did not have time to finish it because the Sculptris closed. But I had time to save the last work on it. Mouse not so nice but I had the choice to put it in the carbage or here.

Gigi .... your mouse is so funny ... he has such chubby cheeks and those teeth are just perfect. He looks kinda friendly, but I'm just not a mouse guy and I really hate rats.(have had some bad experences with them) Mice are nice as long as they are not real ... Cool sculpt ....

Carl ... Thanks for checking my pendants out. Hope folks don't think this Shapeways stuff is to far from FF because I have more phots on the way. I'm molding and making duplicates now. I like the texture as long as I am making tikis because they are supposed to be based on wood carvings anyway. I did try fine sandpaper on some of my molded forms and it does not come out too smooth. I will try emery next ....

In my experimenting with Shapeways I have used many tools I never used much before. This ugly guy started on an Ipad app called SculptMaster. It is not very good for detail, but it is an easy way to make a quick sketch. I have been fooling around with different kinds of abstract body shapes on it. This is a real monster that I detailed in Sculptris and then did some FF magic ....

This guy looks somewhere between Shrek and a hippo
Hope he doesn't have a temper like a Hippo....

Shapeways again .... Got molding done and have been making copies. It has been a long time since I did any casting. Over the years they have improved mold making, but the resin is still hard to deal with at times. This is my first cast and you can see that there are some voids caused by bubbles. Did some painting with black and drybrushed on some bronze metal paint.

Gene we must have posted at the same time. LOL

Love that first cast. Super great look. The bubbles even add to the over all look. Love the finish of black and bronze. These are going to be great.

Gene, I love the painting you have done on your pendant.

Mardar, your Martian is so beautiful and well done. Love also the bg. With those ears, this guy does not have any earing problem LOl

Sorry I did not have time for monster today because my filter update (Spaceray with his suggestions) and my garden. Will see tomorrow what could I do...

Marda ... My uploads are slow, this cursed dial-up. Easy to cross wires with me. Ears again and those eyes are so real and evil looking. You were telling the story of the Night Owl guy. I think I might have seen that show years ago when I was traveling. Either that or there was one just like it elsewhere in the country. I think there was some kind of creature feature type program on most all local TV stations back in the 60's and 70's. That was before cable. I bought a DVD called Sci-Fi Invasion, 50 old movies and most of them awful ... The older we get the fuzzier the good old days get ...... You still have a good memory for old monsters ... Nice sculpt ... Good background .....

Gene, I LOVE LOVE LOVE those pendants! Both the casting and painting are awesome!
You are one talanted dude

Mardar, I love that martian
He's definitly the most entertaining martian I've seen since "Mars Attacks!" 1996 movie:

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Gene S Morgan wrote: casting

nice idea to cast them of original, looks great

Would this fit here ?



I have used the Demonic Woodcut filter by uberzev with some pansies flowers and got this

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Morgantao wrote And the pansy flower examples look like crazy skull masks, I love it

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SpaceRay wrote: I agree that the pansies flowers looks like crazy skull masks as this is the FIRST thing I though after seeing the result

SpaceRay .... when I first saw your pansy picture in the other thread my first thought was: "A bunch of monsters" cool dude ......


Gigi ... You are quite right about your filters. I could spend a lot I time playing with them. They are great for making tiles. The abilty to use other textures within them give them so much versatility. I was a little disappointed at first that they did not work well in non-square images, but making tiles and making backgrounds with my tiling filter is so much fun. Some really unique backgrounds can be produced .... Great filters girl ......

Sorry. I have no time to create monsters because my nose is constantly in my filter editor LOL, but, please, don't stop creating monsters, I will come here and see and comment your babies.

Another one with as background, Grunge Grunge Mardar's filter.

OK a last one original from my filter.

(We have passed the number 10015.)

Yes you're right, the second looks like a clown, the third one like a cat. But I did not know for luchador and the Cheshire cat. For me, these one are pure strangers. Sorry, I spent my youthness on another planet.

In the nest examples, you will see first the original made with GF Spirogram Generator v9, the second image is the same monster but worked with another software, and the last image of each tryptiques are already on this thread.

Here the clown

Here the other clown

Gigi ... You have done it again ... made a great face making filter ... I was hoping your recent filter series of wonderful filters were heading that direction. Your examples are just so much fun ... I love them.

I have been sidetracted lately doing other stuff, so this guy is closer to my tikis than a monster. Layering your recent filters and filtering them some more with other folk's stuff sure can produce some fun backgrounds.

great faces gigi noice gene