I met Kris Kobzina about a year and a half ago while
visiting Cinema Makeup School in downtown Los Angeles. He teaches special effects
makeup there part time, helping young artist hone their craft, when he's not
working in his shop or on set doing special effects makeup on movies or
television shows. Kris is a fellow
Chicago native, and a hell of a nice guy, so we quickly struck up a friendship.
I’d been planning a Kickstarter to launch Zombie Coven, my illustrated horror
novel project. I've always been a fan of
resin kits, so I knew I wanted to do some kind of sculpture as a reward tier for the KS. I instantly thought of Kris because he such
an awesome artist. www.kreativekontrolfx.com
We decided that Kris would do a life-size bust based on
my "Etched Skull Zombie” painting that I did for Zombie Coven. He also did
a smaller resin bust (about 8” x 8") of my "Rebirther" painting (which
I'll tell you about in my next blog post).
Here's some WIP (work-in-progress) photos and the final
result. Kris sculpted the bust in clay, made a mold, and cast it in resin. Then
he painted it in movie make up maquette fashion, and it came out awesome. (Photos: Kris Kobzina, unless otherwise noted).
We're offering a limited of three hand-painted, life-size
busts of "Etched Skull Zombie” in the Kickstarter. We also have the "Rebirther” bust, either
unpainted or painted by Kris, and a KS specially priced Kris Kobzina zombie/creature gelatin application workshop, limited to 8 students.
UPDATE: I've closed the Kickstarter, but the statues are available in the BaxaArt.com Store: http://www.baxaart.com/BT_storefront.htm
UPDATE: I've closed the Kickstarter, but the statues are available in the BaxaArt.com Store: http://www.baxaart.com/BT_storefront.htm
copyright 2015 Thomas M. Baxa
Photo: Chet Zar
Here's a turnaround video of clay sculpture. Go get a painted one at http://www.baxaart.com/BT_storefront.htm
Photo: Mike Ferdie
Photo: Mike Ferdie
Photo: Mike Ferdie
Photo: Mike Ferdie
Here's the WIP, so you can see Kris's process. Pretty cool!
Kris Kobzina is a professional special FX make-up artist
and FX instructor for several schools, with a career spanning 19 years. Kris has worked for various FX shops and on
set in Hollywood on such films/TV shows "RED DRAGON",
"PUNISHER", "MIB 2", "SPIDERMAN",
"X-FILES" and many more. Kris operates his own FX shop, Kreative
Kontrol FX Prosthetic Studio were, in-between working on tv/film projects, he
conducts professional F/X make-up workshops and one-on-one training. www.kreativekontrolfx.com
