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For a time, I had my own special effects makeup and props and puppet design studio in Hollywood, California. In these photos, you see some of the work I did for DreamWorks Interactive’s film production for the computer game R.L.Stine Escape From Horrorland. I created/sculpted several zombie makeups which were designed by an artist who’s name completely slips my mind right now, but, the funny thing is, it turns out that he and I attended the same high school in Southeastern Arizona in a small copper mining town and we took the same art classes together. How embarrassing. Anyway, he and I hadn’t seen each other since I left high school many years earlier and, one day, when he had been talking to the art director on this production, who also happened to be my best friend, when he heard my name which had been brought up because he was told that I would be using his designs to create all of the zombie makeups (prosthetics), he told my buddy that he needed to meet me because he felt that we knew each other, which we did, and it was a very cool reunion, because I remembered him as an extremely talented artist back in high school. I wish I could remember his name. Interestingly, I remember having a wonderful art teacher in middle school whose name was Mrs. Soles. She was SO cool, and she had a great sense of humor while also never taking any $hit from any students. Then, in high school, we had Mr. Turner who was also extremely cool. I think this little town churned out some really talented artists and performers and writers, as I recall that a young woman who I went to high school with in this same town became a best-selling author who write romance novels and does really, really well for herself.

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After I was laid off from Walt Disney Imagineering in 1995, after five years of service there as an employee, I ended up going back to Disney as a freelance sculptor and designer where I worked on further projects for various Disney Second Gates (Disney’s other theme parks other than Disneyland, The Magic Kingdom, and EPCOT Center) such as Disney’s Animal Kingdom, Blizzard Beach, Typhoon Lagoon, as well as a couple of mega-entrances to two Disney resorts ... The Mighty Ducks Resort Hotel and the Fantasia Resort Hotel. The Mighty Ducks goalie mask represents a 40′-foot tall entryway to the hotel which I sculpted and the Sorcerer’s Apprentice hat which was also the entrance to the hotel mentioned above. The dinosaur you see me sculpting in the bottom left photo was later sculpted life-size which you will see in one of my posts here at some point.

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Custom props to Disney Art Classics Collectibles to movie posters sculpted in 3-D.

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I sculpted a few characters for Walt Disney Classics Collection which was a part of Walt Disney Art Classics which, sadly, no longer exists. Some of my most memorable sculpting projects were when I was freelancing for WDCC.

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Things that I have sculpted over the years.

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I worked on the television series CSI: Las Vegas as a prop maker working with an amazing team of artists and crafts people where I helped to make, build, and fabricate many, many hundreds of miniature props and pieces. Everything had to be made in duplicate because the actors had to handle the actual miniature props which were built at 1/4″ = 1′-0″ scale, but there also had to be a duplicate model of the one the actors handled which was for actual filming so a camera could travel through the miniature set. Those larger models were built at 1″ = 1′-0″. A much larger model, to say the least.

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I worked on the television show Crank Yankers as a prop-maker and sculptor as well as a figure finisher, which also included painting props.

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 I have worked on and built many architectural models in many different scales for several different companies and businesses. I started out in the paint department at Alchemy II working on the television pilot for the Talking Teddy Bear Teddy Ruxpin where I literally started out cleaning paint buckets, airbrushes, and doing general labor helping out many of the other artists who were working on various parts of the television production. I was lucky enough to finally get to participate in fabricating a bunch of little airplanes, thanks to the graciousness and trusting nature of the gentleman who was overseeing the entire construction of the sculptural and miniature elements of the production. His name was Carl West ... may he rest in peace. I moved on from Alchemy II when the production came to an end and I went on to go do other work which helped me to also add to and build both my resume and my portfolio.

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Blaise Gauba - Digital Sculptor turned 8 today!