I came across this article about Damon Bard and the sculpting work he does for the movies. Polymer clay is one of the materials he uses.
Bard designs characters and also sculpts others’ character designs into models called maquettes. “I design in 3-D primarily. I do design for creatures and characters like what DreamWorks does, or I’ll design a monster or something for visual effects shows. If there is far too much [work], I’ll work with different sculptors. Mostly, of late, I have been doing character sculpture — everybody seems to like what I do with that.”
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Materials: “I use different kinds of clay for different maquettes. If we are doing a fast sketch, I may make it out of a polymer clay, which can be baked and painted. It is semi-permanent — it turns rigid. When we get a design we like and we want to evolve it . . . I’ll do it out of a clay that has to be molded because it’s not permanent.”
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