Sculpting challenge: Day 60! Plus Haloween hijinks! :D

[milleniumgypsy]

Tonight I continued the siamese cat sculpt! First I resculpted the back feet since I wasn't entirely happy with them. Then I textured and baked them. Then I sculpted on a neck, attached the head to the neck, sculpted the jowls further and added a bit to the crown of the head. Now that I have the head attached to the body Scottie says it looks like an Egyptian jar or statue. At the time it was lying on it's side (with some support to protect the head) so it looked even more like something you'd find in a tomb. xD



I'm somewhat amused by the pile of baked limbs next to to body. hehe

I also wanted to make a note about the amazing Halloween events of today. hehe :D

We went to Michaels today to pick up some yarn for a project that Scottie is working on. He's designed a pixel art pattern for an awesome afghan for the couch. I'm really excited about that! But the Halloween part comes when he decided that we should go look at some fuzzies. It turned out that they were having a Halloween pet costume show! xD There were a lot of people participating. One couple brought a two Samoyeds, one dressed as a football player and the other was a cheerleader. They were dressed as coaches, and the guy even tossed a little stuffed football for the dog dressed as the football player to catch. It was cute. xD
Another family came in and they were all really into it. There was a tweenie girl dressed in a candy corn dress with a candy corn wig that I feel like Lady Gaga could get behind. She had a chinchilla that had a couple Halloweeny trinkets on it. The little boy brought out his hermit crab who had a tiny witch hat attached to his shell. The mother was dressed as a witch and brought out a neat looking frog. She also temporarily had a little hat on it's head, but it fell off soon after since it moved. It was cute, and I thought it was awesome how the whole family was so into it. :3
We didn't stay to see who won but it was fun.

After that we stopped by Walmart because Scottie needed a couple more skeins of yarn (Michaels was out of brown in the kind we needed of all things! lol), and while we didn't find what we needed he remembered that I love to carve pumpkins so we picked up one for me to carve tomorrow. I'm excited! :D

Then tonight me and Scottie went to a Haunted House that my old grad school was putting on! Apparently USGS had recently moved out of one of their buildings, so they had an entire building awaiting re-purposing for classes or other things. They decided that they would put on a whole haunted house with it! Admission was free; though you could donate money, food, or clothes that would be given to various local charities. They had a family friendly version of it that went until 8:30, and they had a scary version that went from 8:30 to 11 pm (or until they get yelled at to shut it down as one worker said, hehe). Of course we went to the later section!

Now, I've never been to a haunted house before. I was SO EXCITED TO GO. haha Scottie's been to a couple of smaller haunted houses before, but nothing big. He said that this was way better than ones he's been to before, partly because they had so many human actors. He said the ones he'd been to had animatronics more than people, probably because they couldn't afford to keep on a lot of actors. A university has the opposite problem though lol, they have human actors in spades because I'm sure there were plenty of volunteers to play in the haunted house, but animatronics cost money lol. I think a lot of costumed characters is a lot better than a static robot though!

I had a lot of fun! There was a younger girl with my group though and near the end she got scared and said the safe word, so I think we ended up missing a little bit of the show. I feel bad that she got scared, and I don't mind that I missed the stuff. It might have been better if they'd enforced the 13+ rule, but she was there with her dad and they both thought she could take it. She'd been behind us in line and she was SO EXCITED to go in, and the wait was like an hour outside in 18 degree F weather, so I'd have felt bad as a worker to have turned her away.

Anyway, lots of awesomeness. :D

Oh, and I'm also in the top 6 of the Monster High Halloween photo competition from Stage 2! That means that I win a doll! Right now the competition is in it's 3rd and final stage. Now the finalists are being voted on to see how we place. I am really really really happy about that! I was hoping that I would place somewhere, but I was doing it because I really wanted to do it because I thought it would be fun (which it was). But I'm also ridiculously excited about winning a doll. :D

Comments

[twissie.livejournal.com]

These kind of home made haunted houses sound like so much fun. I've never seen or heard of anything like that here. I would probably be too scared to actually go through one, but.... XD;;; I would love to try. I think. Hurrr.

Scottie says it looks like an Egyptian jar or statue.

A good observation, it really does! :O

[invsagoth.livejournal.com]

hehe, I wasn't actually scared during most of it, just entertained! xD There was a room with strobe lights thought that I thought was pretty freaky. It really added to the monster actors in the scene. xD

After he said that it looked like an Egyptian statue I couldn't unsee it, but I thought it was pretty awesome! hehe :D

[kitrinlu.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on getting through to Stage 3. Good luck!

The cat is looking awesome! :)

[invsagoth.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Voting closes the day before Halloween, then I can post the picture here. :D

I'm really happy with how the cat is turning out, thank you! :3