Fantasy Creature Sculpture

Closely linked to, or as a follow-on course from the ‘3D Modelmaking – Concept to Construction’ course, join this unique and fascinating 12-week course focused upon the creation of fantasy creatures.

Delivered by leading creature design specialist, Takara Dancy, a freelance model maker and sculptor, she possesses a diverse collection of specialist skills including sculpting, CAD modelling, 3D printing, moulding and casting.

The course offers students the opportunity to discover many aspects of creature design and maquette fabrication, exploring the exciting and immersive routes this subject can offer that will help to introduce and improve skills as an independent thinker and designer.

Your tutor will use her technical skills and industry knowledge to guide you through a series of intensive evening classes introducing the whole process from concept to realisation. She will give demonstrations into armature making, blocking out your sculpture, posing your creature, painting and many other techniques. Alongside these demonstrations you will begin to develop your own designs, with support from your tutor providing you with on the spot guidance in all areas of the process to allow you to create and complete a body of work.

Students will explore and be encouraged to work with a variety of standard and specialist materials used in the construction of creature designs. Guided through set exercises each week, alongside demonstrations and showing of prepared examples from sculpting, moulding to fine-detail finishing touches – you will be challenged to produce professional grade creations working in a rewarding, fun and vibrant environment.

The course will be interspersed with thought-provoking talks on the history of creature design and the use of our world as inspiration, which will help you to develop and gain a valuable understanding, appreciation and industry insight.