Making the Demogorgon hand

The Demogorgon hand was for a interactive advertisement display for O2 in Central London.

The hand had to fit around a billboard of a mobile phone as if it was holding the phone.

The hand was 12 meters long by 6 meters high.

We had to make this hand in sections due to its extreme size.

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First of all we plotted each section and carved it out of polystyrene using hotwires, serated knives and wire brushes. 

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Once we had each section carved we coated them in a dark grey pigmented epoxy resin and woven glass fibre to give it a hard shell. We added bits of polystyrene to the resin in some places to give it a bumpy texture. Once the resin was applied to the surface of the polystyrene we used sculpting tools to mark scaley skin like lines into the wet resin.

For the nails/claws of the beast we simply used a smooth black pigmented resin togive it a smooth shiny effect.

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Once the resin was dry we painted textures and highlights into the skin to give it a more realistic effect.

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we had to piece together the hand on sight using scaffolding poles to hold it firmly in place. We used a thickened pigmented resin mixture to fill in any gaps that may have appeared in the joinings of the different sections.

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