L'Oréal Alice in Wonderland Props - Polystyrene / Styrofoam by Sculpture Studios

Welcome to Sculpture Studios. We've got a little mix of projects here, creating some Alice in Wonderland style props for L'Oreal, along with one of their products. This is for a photoshoot to promote their Colorista hair dye and we're going to be creating a range of oversized items which as you probably know is right up our street. The client sent us some images of some existing props they really liked the look of and wanted created for themselves. As well as large bottles of their Colorista hair dye we're making some large playing cards in reference to the Queen of Hearts kingdom, a large key and finally some giant mushrooms. These are a little different in style and scale to the last mushrooms we made and you can find the video link in the card at the top right of the window or in the YouTube video description below. This is another great project for Aidan as he loves the carving aspect of the work and for this these are predominantly going to be made from polystyrene or styrofoam with a light water-based plaster render. Quite simple and straightforward and it's just a case of blowing up to the correct scale and a decent hand at carving. So you probably won't need me waffling through the whole video, I'll pass you on to Aidan now and let you sit back relax and enjoy the process. Hi everyone, here we have a large mushroom, one at seven foot tall and one at five foot tall. Friday half past six I'll probably be working all night on this, Saturday and Sunday as well so this is for L'Oreal. Next process using nail brushes, nothing fancy, just lots of nail, quite coarse. End of the nail brush work and now just a normal saw and you can get nice forms and pulls on it so this is the next procedure. The next step is to turn it upside down and do the other side. Next stage of the project is wire brushes, just normal wire brushes that hones the polystyrene down just a little bit more. Here's the two bottles with the little dents in the front, still waiting for the graphics on the front of these, made out of polystyrene and emulsion painted. This small mushroom is going to be traveling in one single piece, it has metal work up the middle of it to hold it together but we think that that's strong enough to hold in one separate piece so that's quite good. On the larger one we've decided to break down two sections up here, not quite finished there yet but it cuts off there and the head will travel separate in transit so it's a bit safer and it will last better that way in the lorry. Here we have the key and that's made of wood so it's nice and strong as your gold finish and over here we have the stands for the cards and we have little angle iron metal work. Once we have the cards we'll fix them down at the right gap through the centres and they'll look good and they should stay upright nicely. So yeah, mushrooms and the bottles, cards and keys, hope you like them. Well we hope you enjoyed the video showing the process of how these items were made and if you'd like to see more of the props we create you can find plenty more on our channel. If you've taken the time to watch this entire project video you deserve to watch another one because you're worth it. Just a little lorry old joke there because it's a lorry... yeah never mind. Please feel free to leave any comments below as they're always appreciated and hit the subscribe button for our latest videos. You can like Sculpture Studios on Facebook and follow us on Twitter and for more of our work visit www.sculpturestudios.co.uk. Thank you very much for watching.