MissMonsterMel

Chavant suuuuuucks! I'll never work with that clay again, mainly because it's sticky and unforgiving. I know a lot of people that love it, but not me. Haha, when I think about it, it annoys me so much I come up with childish insults directed at it, like 'it smells' and 'its poopy!' so I guess that says it all.

In the same vein, Monster Clay is by far my favourite material to work with. It's smooth, workable, and an absolute pleasure to sculpt with. I spend so much of my time sculpting, its clays that have the biggest impact on me.

Hi jaysapathy! I have a bunch of friends that have been on Face-Off, but I haven't been on it personally. I haven't worked in the halloween/haunt industry, I tend to work more on bespoke masks of my own design, and occasionally work for hollywood special effect shops.

That's quite the question! To answer that, I guess I would have to go way back to my childhood, where I grew up on a steady diet of cartoons like Thundercats (Ho!) and Silver Hawks. Then as I grew up, I started to get more and more influenced by Japanese anime, and movies like Zeiram and the stunning work of Keita Amemiya.

As I moved into the workforce, I got a BFa in animation and illustration, and that's how I ended up on A Scanner Darkly. I quickly realised that animation wasn't for me (after all those years of study, eh!? :/), and bounced around for a few years, teaching illustration, waitressing, and even did some design work at motorola. During all that, I still worked part-time on making the monsters influenced by my early years. Eventually, I took the leap of trying to go it on my own. Took a long time to get established, but I guess I tried to stay true to all my early influences, and i couldn't be happier making monsters today.

TLDR: Started as an illustrator, meandered around for a while (but still made monsters), and eventually decided to go it on my own.

I haven't worked with Jordu, but I have been around for a long time! I'm totally curious now as to where you might have seen me or my work! :D

Hi Natalie!

Wow, great question! I had to think a bit about this, and I would say I mostly let the ideas flow out of me, with no real connection to previous work. Sometimes, when I'm making something, and I step away from the finished piece for a while, I see some similarities, or a link to a previous piece that I then like to explore. For example, I consider my Cragnogs, Floculent Craws and Chubnogs as all part of the same universe. Similarly with my bigger masks, the Robodog and the Anubot have the same post apocalyptic vibe, so they now belong to the same universe.

I feel like it's more important to just create and not constrain an idea, and perhaps later consider their place in the universes you create.

Really good question, thanks!