Giant Rabbits Polystyrene / Styrofoam by Sculpture Studios

Welcome to Sculpture Studios. For this project we've got a bit of polystyrene carving for you as we're creating some oversized rabbits. We've been contacted by Kim Beedy, the creative director at Figa & Co. This is a company that specializes in floral artistry for fashion, interiors and photo shoots and other occasions and this job was for the Mayfair Flower Show in May 2017. The client sent us some images of how she'd like the rabbits to look and collaborating with other images that we found online we've sort of merged the idea of wild rabbits and hairs together to form the final generic designs to blow up in scale. At the end of the day these figures are going to be covered in a foliage so Kim wants a basic form blocked out from polystyrene that she can go straight over with the finish. We start by gridding up the designs and blowing them up to scale onto our large blocks and we cut the peripherals using a hot wire. Now there are many ways we can do this we normally start by using a long length of wire and a person at either end to first cut into our eight foot blocks. The hot wire table is used by one or two people for smaller pieces and a handheld hot wire for initial blocking out and shaping. With the cubist form cut using front top and side on references and large chunks taken away with the hot wire here Jess is going ahead with nail and wire brushes. There's only a small amount I can talk about polystyrene carving before you get sick of my voice so enjoy the project sit back and relax and I'll catch up with you later on. With the forms finished in polystyrene these were then sent to Kim and her team to cover in the green foliage. Exhibited at the 2017 Mayfair Flower Show they were put on display looking right at home in an indoor dreamlike landscape. We'd like to thank Kim Bede from Figa & Co for coming to us with the project and we look forward to any 3D work with her company in the future. 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 at Aidan Hines on Twitter and for more of our work visit www.sculpturestudios.co.uk Thank you very much for watching.