Hominid

A short, creepy animation by Brian Andrews based on his series of photo composites mixing human and animal parts.


Hominid from Brian Andrews on Vimeo.


I love how the shading of the characters so closely ressemble diaphonized animal specimens, a chemical process which stains the skeleton and makes the flesh transparent.

Photo of diaphonized minnows from The Brain Scoop

Via The Art of Darkness

Mounting a bat skeleton

Here's a neat video of the work behind cleaning and mounting for display a bat's skeleton.
Beautiful stuff!


via Shadow Manor

Taxidermy: In which we discuss the mounting of the skin

Greetings.

Last time, as you can recall by scrolling down to my last post, we dealt with skinning a fish for the purpose of stuffing and mounting it as a fishing trophy. You may also recall that I clumsily tore out the cheek of the fish, ruining its head. Thus, I cut it off.

The body of the fish still has a purpose, though; I shall use it as the bottom half of a taxidermy gaff representing a mermaid, as, for example, the feejee mermaid made famous by Barnum.

See how I did this after the jump!

Fairy corpse tutorial

The always interesting Cobwebs at Shadowmanor recently posted a great, fun tutorial on how to create a mummified fairy corpse using a twist on basic corpsing techniques (techniques that I shall soon cover in depth for your instruction and enjoyement).

The results, as you can see, are great, the tutorial is easy to follow, and it'll look terribly good in your wunderkammer!

go take a look HERE!