ACTION DRACULAS: FEAR IN FRESHMAN YEAR Part 1

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THE ACTION DRACULAS- “Fear in Freshman Year!” is an all-ages, full-color video storybook, with a musical score byUNCLE MONSTERFACE , and is read by a full cast, featuring MIKE STARR (GOODFELLAS, DUMB AND DUMBER, and NBC’S THE OFFICE).

Four ordinary high school students find DRACULA‘s magical amulet, which grants each one of them one of Dracula’s powers. When the evil record promoter DON PTERANODONand his army of monsters threatens the students of HARKER HIGH‘s Battle of the Bands contest, it’s up to the ACTION DRACULAS to stop him. Can they use evil… To do good?

Fun for kids, adults, fans of Dracula, superheroes, monsters, and rock n’ roll! LET’S DRACULIZE!

Scheduled to be released as a PHYSICAL OBJECT – a full color book and record – in 2024!

PART 2 WILL BE RELEASED THIS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3rd!

BRAD STOKER: Benjamin Pierce

LON CREIGHTON: Darius Marquis Johnson

MISTY MURRAY: Whitney Holland

RENNIE RENFIELD: Conner Coleman

DON PTERANODON: Marty Allen

GREAT LORD DRACULA: Griffin Meagher

With special guest MIKE STARR as MIKE

Also featuring Naeemah Maddox and Dan Brennan

Music by Uncle Monsterface

Produced by Marty Allen and Dan Brennan

Sound recording, engineering, and design by Dan Brennan

Written, illustrated, directed and narrated by Jesse Farrell

©2023 Jesse Farrell

Music ©2023 Uncle Monsterface

WORLD’S FINEST: Superman and Batman

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The WORLD’S FINEST: Superman and Batman (after Drew Struzan). The poses of these 1/6th scale sculptures were inspired by paintings by Drew Struzan, but I had latitude to style them however I wanted, opting for a modernized Golden Age look.

They were sculpted with Super Sculpey, Sculpey Firm, and Apoxie over aluminum armatures.

I made a short making-of video which you can watch here.

DOCTORS WHO?

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My friend Dave Marshall did a fan comic based on the long-running BBC Sci-Fi series DOCTOR WHO in which an aging Doctor (modeled on Helen Mirren) ultimately regenerates into a new Doctor (modeled on Sam Cooke). In his early drawings, Dave hadn’t settled on those specific likenesses, and I used those earlier versions as my template for these 3D versions. In a nod to Cooke, I did make the Doctor’s trademark sonic screwdriver resemble a 1960s-style pencil microphone (and like his predecessor Doctor’s mechanical right hand, it’s made of brass, like the workings of a clock).

The Doctors are 1/10th scale, sculpted in Super Sculpey and Apoxie over aluminum armatures. The TARDIS is made with cut sheet styrene and has working lights.

BATMAN ’89

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The comic book incarnation of BATMAN ‘89, as designed by Joe Quinones (from the comic book drawn by Quinones and written by Sam Hamm, screenwriter of the 1989 Tim Burton film) which I digitally sculpted with Nomad Sculpt for the iPad Pro.

Taking advantage of the layering abilities of a digital sculpture, I was also able to sculpt a complete Bruce Wayne face under the mask. The comic book version does not, by design, strictly resemble actor Michael Keaton, who played him in the film, but is instantly recognizable as BRUCE WAYNE.

Prior to this, I’d also sculpted a version that hewed more closely to the movie:

Mignola’s HELLBOY Digital Sculpture

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Mike Mignola’s HELLBOY, digitally sculpted on the iPad Pro with Nomad Sculpt.

I’m having a lot of fun digitally sculpting and learning a lot as I go. I’m self-taught, so I don’t know if I’m doing things the ”right” way, or even if some of these pieces will be printable with a 3D printer, but right now I’m having a blast and enjoying how these are coming out.

Plus I like sitting on the couch and sculpting without having to unpack or clean up any tools. That said, I feel like working this way is whetting my appetite and giving me ideas for my next traditionally sculpted project.

DIGITAL SCULPTING

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This month I decided to finally try and teach myself digital sculpting. There are a lot of things I think I could be doing, like sculpting at a smaller scale, or making props that would be more difficult to accomplish traditionally. I was curious about Zbrush (expensive, but a free trial is available), Blender (free!), and NomadSculpt, which I’d already loaded onto my iPad. After asking Twitter, I decided I was going to try Blender and got through about three Youtube tutorials before I recognized some of the controls as being similar to NomadSculpt. Between the ease of use and the sensitivity of the Apple Pencil, I just gravitated toward NomadSculpt.

Someone once told me a traditional sculptor learning digital sculpting is like a pianist learning the saxophone: same notes, different instrument. I’ve been at three weeks now and I have been having a blast. Here are some of the things I’ve worked on. Expect to see more soon.

DR. THADDEUS S. “RUSTY” VENTURE Minibust

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“You can’t collect scientists and not have a Rusty Venture on your mantel.”

From Adult Swim’s THE VENTURE BROS.: the underachieving son of legendary super scientist Jonas Venture and father of Hank and Dean, the Venture Bros. themselves, here’s 5” of screamin’ hot Rusty. The Venture Bros. were created by Jackson Public, and the series was written by Publick and Doc Hammer.

This Rusty Venture was sculpted in Super Sculpey over an aluminum and apoxie armature, molded with Smooth-On Equinox 40 and cast with Smooth-Cast 325. The glasses were fabricated with tiny wooden and styrene rods, then molded and cast separately (and were in incredible pain). The base is a wooded blocked, sanded and distressed, and it was all painted with acrylics and finishes with a Lazertran decal. It stands 5” tall.