Artwork for the SPN_Cinema Challenge 2012

[beelikej]

After doing some hands-on arts & crafts for Gishwhes, I realized how much I had missed creating things from scratch; so when it was time for this year's spn_cinema challenge, I decided to not do one of my usual digital designs. I found an excellent film that inspired me to finally grab those packets of clay I had lying around. As an extra bonus it comes with a plot that could be an old fashioned Supernatural monster of the week episode:) Dundundun....



Title: Sam & Dean and The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Artist: beelikej
Medium: Clay, paint, fabric! (and a bit of Photoshopping;)
Movie Prompt: Wallace & Gromit (in TCofWR)
Genre: Casefile, no romance
Rating: G
Concept: The Winchester brothers are taking a break from hunting and are laying low in small town USA, where the people are getting ready for the annual Giant Vegetable Competition. Suddenly, in the middle of the night, a mysterious, ravaging "beast" begins attacking the town's sacred vegetable gardens! Sam goes into research mode and finds out someone may be infected with the CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT. In the meantime Dean has a sudden craving for carrot-cake...
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Screencaps in motion

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Teaser for spn_cinema community


The making of Sam & Dean

From clay to painted finish!
Below you'll find a step by step look behind the scenes.
If you want to skip that, click here to go straight down to the end;)

Sam's head:





Painting Sam's hair.


Tadaah!

Dean's head:





Painting Dean's face, part one...


...I changed his skin colour three times


Dean's stuffed cheeks are like a mask to cover the original clay head.

The mess I made


Details

Even though Dean's freckles are not always seen on screen, I had to add them :-p


Before and after eating carrot cake!

The bodies
Many ideas were floating around in my head: from building clay statues to photoshopping my mannequins into bodies; I even dressed them up with my old leather jacket (See source post for scary result. Then I saw these dolls in a shop and I immediately knew they were meant to be turned into Sam & Dean.


I decapitated the dolls and got rid of the fur. For Dean I used a marker to make the shoes black and I covered the pants with blue tape to create jeans. In case you're wondering: those sharp things sticking out from the neck are the teeth of a potatoe-fork (like a corn-fork) that I used to connect the heads to the body.


In between the old dolls' clothes up in my attic I found a tiny T-shirt for Dean and a white short-sleeved shirt for Sam. I painted the first a navy green and decorated the latter with a blue plaid pattern.


And here they are, all dressed up and ready to play.
(If you're a fan of Supernatural you probably notice the missing samulet.
I created that last minute from part of the skull-chain from my old wallet)



And as they say: that's all, folks!


I hope you enjoyed this half as much as I did. FYI: I love comments ;-)

Even more background information can be found in my Spring 2012 Sourcepost. If you want to know more about the film, I highly recommend the official Wallace & Gromit website, it's awesome:)

This was my first time fiddling with Sam & Dean, all my previous designs feature RPS-pairings Jensen/Jared or Jensen/Jeff: Masterlist of all my SPN artwork

-J-

Comments

[lady-vader67.livejournal.com]

OMG! How creative that was and I love Sam's hair and LOL @ Dean's lips. Kinda Mick Jagger-like.

All of it was pretty amazing to do and how talented.

Great!

[agirlnamedtruth.livejournal.com]

They are brilliant ^^

I can't imagine how much hard work must have gone into making this, so kudos, you did a fantastic job!

[katbcoll.livejournal.com]

Oh! Ohhh! These are AMAZING! I was giggling at the fact you used Curse of the Were-Rabbit to begin with (one of my favorite movies). These. Oh these just tickle me. Fantastic work!

[tebtosca.livejournal.com]

what a great, fun idea! Terrific job :D

[princess-aleera.livejournal.com]

BRILLIANT.

... BRILLIANT.

[sillie]

Asdghddhgdhh!!!! You don't know how big a smile I have on my face right now, these are so awesome!!! :D :D :D Also, freckles! And chipmunk cheeks! And side-burns!

Conclusion: Your clay dolls are perfection. :D

[mini-moue.livejournal.com]

That was just so much fun! Great, original idea in a novel medium. Well done!

[zomzoms.livejournal.com]

Wow, brilliantly done - I love Sam's hair.

Thanks for sharing.

[norahy.livejournal.com]

so much fun! I am laughing like a mad woman.

this is totally too great for words.

[mementis.livejournal.com]

This is too awesome to be real. What an incredible, amazing job. Wow. :D

[rhondeez.livejournal.com]

Wow, it looks like a lot of time and effort went into this. I'm very impressed with what you've done here...awesome!

[dolnmoon.livejournal.com]

This is amazing. You really put a lot of work in to that and the claymation is really well done. Great job, this is very impressive artwork. KUDOS to you.

[galwithglasses.livejournal.com]

What a lot of work. I love the title card with the hand shadow rabbit. Very clever all around.

[cassiopeia7.livejournal.com]

Brilliant and purely amazing! The sculptures are gorgeous and OMG, all the WORK that you did on these! Rock on with your awesome self!

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[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Fantastic idea--and so cute!!! I'm very impressed! :)

[sagetan.livejournal.com]

Holy cow, these are amazing! I adore the movie, and you've more than done justice to it! Completely amazing :D

[heard_the_owl]

OH MY GOODNESS, THIS POST IS SO AMAZING! You are so incredibly creative and talented and GOODNESS, THE WORK PUT INTO THIS ART IS SO EVIDENT BECAUSE IT IS GLORIOUS!! I'm just totally floored by this entire post!
THANK YOU SO MUCH for posting your step-by-step's and sharing your process, as well as this awesome art! *___*

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

how fun! i love dean's raised eyebrow and, er, sam's teeth. (they made me giggle, ok?) plus dean's stuffed cheeks are adorable and chipmunky and i really like that they're made as a mask, rather than a whole other deanhead.

[beelikej.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, "Mick Jagger" *giggles* I wanted to emphasize the most significant bits of their faces, I guess that worked out very well for Dean's mouth *grins*

Thank you!

[beelikej.livejournal.com]

*beams* Thank you!
Hey, I had loads of fun, so it didn't seem like hard work;)

[beelikej.livejournal.com]

Heehee, I adore that film! I watched it again right before I started on this project and it's just so clever and funny and exciting! I'm really happy my Sam & Dean puppets made you laugh too:) Thanks.

[beelikej.livejournal.com]

:-D Thank you!

[beelikej.livejournal.com]

*blushes* Thank you so much.

[beelikej.livejournal.com]

\o/\o/\o/ Thank you, I'm so thrilled I made you smile like crazy:)
It wasn't until I put the sideburns on Sam's face that I started to believe I could actually make this work. They have magic powers!

P.S. When you come over, you can play with touch hold the Sam & Dean dolls in real life. What? I haven't been doing that. No. *giggles*