I should start adding the product shot images for new pieces when I do a shoot like this. Not a dramatic difference in this case, I wanted to keep it super simple overall.
Seeing the ears like this the asymmetry of them is super obvious, but I find seeing them applied it's not as noticeable.
I like doing little "mini" prosthetic sets like this. Normally I do a large full face that needs a bald cap - and in turn needs ears too to look complete - but little pieces like this are much easier.
The location I'd hoped would work ended up being ridiculously windy that one day, so it was hard to communicate and concentrate on what I was trying to do. We got a couple shots and moved on to a more sheltered, but limited locale amidst some trees.
We then went back to my place and snagged a few more, with the pausing in shooting I lost sense of what I was getting and what I wanted so the overall variety was a little limited, but I'm still pretty happy with how they turned out.
Styx - Master of Shadows and it's sequel are two of my favorite video games ever. For ages I've been thinking about doing a prosthetic based on Styx, I finally got around to it this past summer. I immediately already had ideas for a shoot to accompany it. What should have been a overly elaborate shoot, just became a regularly elaborate shoot since I was able to cobble together a decent costume from stuff I had in storage from years of making movies and other shoots.
Just a shot showing off the contacts lenses as they normally look, I added a lighted effect over them for all the other shots.
A series of headshots, just to get an idea of lighting and how the piece would work, even these turned out great.
This is the first time I've actually storyboarded a photoshoot. Back when I made movies I used to do this all the time and since I knew this wouldn't be a random, improved pose shoot, and I wanted to create a really strong narrative element to it I thought this would cut out a lot of last minute stress and frustration during the shoot, plus the risk of missing a shot idea would be greatly reduced.
This one shot was a massive amount of work to do, but it was something I had in mind right from the beginning. One of my favorite D&D monsters if the Otyugh, so I very early on decided I would have Styx encounter an Otyugh - I just had no idea how I'd do it. In the end I sculpted a little minature Otyugh in Cosclay and just lit it similarly to the original image and comped it in.
I also wanted everything to have an 80s movie feel, so this really helped sell that idea since the Otyugh looks like a little stop-motion monster in the background.
And lastly, since in the 2nd Styx game he had a female Paladin companion throughout the game I thought this would be a good idea to incorporate into this shoot, but I wasn't interested in creating that armor so I again went with what I had on hand and came up with an elf character.
I finally got a chance to do a shoot with a prosthetic I made a few months ago, it's a female version of the original Odru-Shaggorath, and because of that I decided to do the shoot replicating the same look from that original shoot too.
