Lex Rudd walked us through how she designs lifelike puppes, fabrication techniques, including early sculpture, pattern making, molding, casting, prototypes, raw materials, and finished products.
Give a gander at Lex’s website www.alexisrudd.com for some of her other works.
More about Make: Believe: stage.makezine.com/go/believe
Complete instructions for this episode of Weekend Projects can be found at
http://makeprojects.com/Project/Covert+Listening+Book/2150/1
Connect an amplified listener with an in-car FM transmitter, and you’ve got a wireless bug. Place the circuit in a hollowed-out book with the microphone concealed by the dust cover, and you’ve got a super-sneaky covert listening device! Tune in via a FM radio receiver set to the correct frequency, and you’ll be able to hear through walls.
In each bi-monthly episode of DiResta (every other Wednesday at 2pm PT), artist and master builder Jimmy DiResta (“Dirty Money,” “Hammered,” “Against the Grain,” “Trash for Cash”) lets us into his workshop, to look over his shoulder while he builds whatever strikes his fancy. On this episode of DiResta, Jimmy turns some birch branch slices into a table.
Materials and supply lists and Jimmy’s notes on the build here: http://blog.stage.makezine.com/2012/11/14/diresta-slice-table/
Watch amazing costume and prop fabricator Shawn Thorsson (who was our cover story for Make: Vol 32) and MAKE’s Creative Director Jason Babler talk about making props, costumes, and models.
Visit Shawn’s blog at http://protagonist4hire.blogspot.com/
For more MAKE: Believe visit https://stage.makezine.com/go/believe
Complete instructions for this episode of Weekend Projects can be found at
http://makeprojects.com/Project/PIR+Sensor+Arduino+Alarm/72/1
This project is great for those beginning to build with Arduino, and requires no soldering. Using very few components, and some jumper wire, we’ll build a simple motion-sensing alarm. This project combines technologies we’ve used in previous Weekend Projects, including a PIR sensor and piezo buzzer. It’s great for practical jokes and doubles as an early warning system for the zombie invasion!
Tune in to MAKE’s new series about the people who bring fantasy to life. We will spotlight miniature-making, sculpting, molding, figure-modding, latex mask-making, and much more with tutorials, interviews, reviews, and good stories. www.stage.makezine.com/go/believe
Scott Hensey, owner of Anaglyph Sculptures (www.toysculpt.com), has been sculpting action figures, toys and statues for over 30 years. In fact, chances are you have one of his toys in your home (or up in your parents attic). Scott has worked on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles line, Happy Meal toys for McDonalds, Pixar, Star Wars, Disney and much much more. Here is a peek into Hensey’s techniques, inspiration and amazing office of his toy creations.
Jimmy wants a ring that makes an impression. Jimmy gets out the wax, a hobby knife, and a Dremel tool and sets to work.
In each bi-monthly episode of DiResta (every other Wednesday at 2pm PT), artist and master builder Jimmy DiResta (“Dirty Money,” “Hammered,” “Against the Grain,” “Trash for Cash”) lets us into his workshop, to look over his shoulder while he builds whatever strikes his fancy.
More details here: http://blog.stage.makezine.com/2012/09/14/diresta-skull-ring/
