Sculpting a Zombie in Clay
Creating a zombie wall sculpture using colored polymer clay.
Painting, sculpture and analog creations by Adnan Saleem.
Creating a zombie wall sculpture using colored polymer clay.
From the sketchbook, graphite pencil on paper.
While most optical illusions are inherently flat, two dimensional images, they often create three dimensional visual effects. When translating illusions to three dimensions, most illusionary structures are limited to a single or narrow viewpoint to be effective.
The following is a sculpture that provides two images of two distinct objects, through a single form.
We presented a video of this shadow sculpture in the past, using it as a tool to present a visual riddle.
The art of animation is more accessible to artists today, presented in many forms from classical, frame by frame cell animation to stop motion and 3D animation. It may have come a long way from its origins, but much of the concepts behind moving images, as well as developing the characters and stories which they portray haven’t changed at all.
A seemingly impossible structure in the form of an illusionary sculpture created using light and shadow.