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It’s hand sculpted out of polymer clay. White Sculpey inside, Super Sculpey on the surface. Painted with acrylics over acrylic gesso. The tiles on the base are unpainted terracotta Sculpey with Super Sculpey grout. I originally intended to dash this off fairly quickly. I just kept going with adding details beyond the original naked panda and it took longer than intended but I really like the way it came out. If the pants were longer I’d have added cargo pockets but the rolled-up legs came out pretty nice. I only made one other toony type figurine before, a bunny I made for my mother’s birthday two years ago. This one came out so much better but I'm still learning and see things I could've done differently. I'm thinking of getting an airbrush, for one thing, to get that nice smooth look with the paint. Updated with some better photos.
Size: 7”
Scale: 1:8 (roughly) ~3 heads high and a bit big-heady
The title is inspired by the 80s He-Man and the Masters of the Universe series tagline. That sword had power I guess but a pencil can be much more disruptive. I never watched that or She-ra back in the day. But recently I binge watched the rebooted Netflix She-Ra and it’s great. The animation isn’t that good but the characters and stories are so much more interesting than they were in the 80s. Entrapta and Scorpia are awesome. Are they villains really? No, they’re just people and totally understandable. The hero isn’t perfect and neither is anyone in the show. No one knows what they’re doing. Hordak stays mostly in the background as Lord Appears on the Viewscreen A Lot, which is fine. Who needs the boss yelling orders all the time? Instead he just spies on everyone with the creepy baby spy thing. Occasionally the show makes me want to set fire to boats. =^.^=
After watching the Netflix series I tried to watch the original series and totally failed. I just couldn’t sit down and watch it. However, I found some documentaries about the making of the toy line and series and watched them all. The way the toy line and the series came about is totally fascinating to me. The most bonkers thing is that the character Skeletor was inspired by a childhood encounter with the mummified body of Elmer McCurdy in the Long Beach Pier funhouse. The body was thought to be a dummy for years and was discovered to be an actual body during filming of The Six Million Dollar Man at the pier when his arm broke off. The police ran down his origin and found out he was a train robber who had been killed and embalmed in 1911.
Having studied the history of animation somewhat I was aware that the show made extensive use of rotoscoping, as did other Filmation shows, but I didn’t realize they hired bodybuilders to run around for the repetitive rotoscoped scenes. No one told them that tossing a sword from one hand to another doesn’t make sense either. Filmation was so infamous for cheaping on the animation as much as possible and to me it makes these shows unwatchable to me. So does the crappy writing. (I still love the Filmation Star Trek animated show though.) There’s so much more about it and its history that’s weird or random and I’d highly recommend watching The Toys That Made Us episode and the She-Ra reboot too.