About Face
I’ve wanted to write this post for quite a while. One of the things that makes a great prop is an animated face, not with animatronics, but with engaging design. Although we make otherworldly creatures, they all have faces like us mere humans and I often see beautiful, articulate work, with a blank face. We all know who is a master at twisting corpse faces in to seemingly limitless expressions of terror, anger, pain, and sometimes I have detected a hint of a smile or humorous confusion. I was aware of this need in design, but my early attempts on my prop heads were falling way short of expectation. I looked at Rot’s stuff which made me want to throw in the glue and paper towel, but I persevered. He had to start somewhere too, right? I decided to take action and searched the net for images with facial expressions that I wanted to recreate on my three witches. I settled on Dick Cheney sneering, “Johnny” from the shining in th...