Project Cranium: The SKULLpture of Baron Dixon

[ColonPal]

Really neat!! I love the computer typing effect! Are those made out of clay Baron?

[BaronDixon]

@ColonPal Yeah, most of those are kiln-fired stoneware clay. There are a couple of polymer clay critters in there as well. One or two are stoneware clays that can be baked in a home oven. Nevo350 I think it was called. The computer readouts are just a "typing" title effect in Windows Movie Maker.

[Totobuvika]

Scary somehow, and the music fits well.

[BaronDixon]

@Totobuvika Thank you, Totobuvika! The music is all a bunch of different experimental sound effects created by manipulating various ambient noises in a free software called "Audacity". Extreme noise reduction would create these very organic sounding rhythms and hums that sounded like alien medical technology. It's a really great way to build up a Sci-Fi sound effects library.

[MrSrbokap]

FAKEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[BaronDixon]

@MrSrbokap Did you bother to read the description included with the video? And what's a "Fakeeee" (Did I spell it right, with four "E's"?)

[NikitaWill]

Oh man I love your vid, nicely done!!!

[iFOB4life]

sooooooo funni =]

[sum1uallno]

Pretty cool

[zoro071]

P.S btw this can be a computer modification :D from yours sculls some one can make a MONSTER skull :D

[zoro071]

i dont tihnk so bicous this is aliens skulls. 1000,2000,3000.... years ago people boleave there was orcs or something like thet.. maybe this is something like thet.. but aliens i dont boleave :D

[BaronDixon]

That's cool. I think it's more fun to leave it up to the viewer to bring their own imagination to the table anyway. :-)

[trampdunka23]

hey BaronDixon, i have asymmetrical ribs. and they are weird, one side goes out further than the other. i also broke my thumb, my pinky,My SKULL and my pinky toe. so yea, im used to broken bones.

[MadCircle01]

you probably have ur walls full of giger shit dont you?

[BaronDixon]

I would if I didn't have my walls already full of my OWN shit. But I have an extensive collection of Art books and Calendars.

[ColonPal]

@zoro071 -- They're aliens alright! I met them in the flesh when I was at Baron's last time. He's got a whole alien family living in his basement, 2 of them are still on life-support, these are just video evidence of the ones that died.

[BaronDixon]

@ColonPal Well, feeding them was hard because I rarely found anything they liked. Then they started eating each other, and the whole thing became a hot mess. I don't care what "District 9" says, these guys wouldn't touch cat food with a ten-meter cattle prod--even the Fancy Feast stuff!

[ColonPal]

@BaronDixon -- HAHA!

That's hysterical! I would love to come see them again!

[BaronDixon]

@ColonPal We should hook up over at your place some time. I'll dig out the collection of skulls and bring 'em over.

[ColonPal]

@BaronDixon -- Sure! Sounds good -- I'm just sitting at home for another 2 months!

[JLozz]

That afraid me ! but I love it !! It's...mortal !

[gundamnduke0]

i m gona hav nightmares

[BaronDixon]

Yeah, but they will be really KEWL ones!

[gundamnduke0]

wel wat do u kno, i didnt had nightmares, i was so scared i cant sleep so i went play my ps2 until 3:00 when my mom came out n ask me to go to bad, n i was so sleepy cant stand it so i slept after 5 minutes i lie on my bad

[terrybubble]

Just that sequence alone would make a great start to a sci fi movie.

[BaronDixon]

I completely agree with you, Terry! And I'm not above recycling my own work to that end!

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[Robsin24]

eheheheh! is this real alliens skull?...waaaaa

[RastafarianPilgrim]

how... I'd love to see one of them police-anatomy-facial-recreati­onal-guys but muscles and skin on some of those creatures... that'd be wicked!!

I myself collect animal bones for voodoo-inspired jewelries and I find anatomy very interesting, in fact I'm working on a full 3-D computer generated human skeleton and will soon (withing a couple of weeks/months) be posting a video with videos of this figure and drawings, it'll be kind of a walkthrough of the human body-structure...

[BaronDixon]

Sounds like a great project!

[kakkonen222]

This is way cool! I collect animal skulls myself...

[BaronDixon]

I hear ya. I'm too lazy to go out looking for them, so i make my own. heh-heh!

[Totobuvika]

Wow yeah this is fantastic!

[Phobopheliac]

I love your work, it looks ver H.R.Giger-esque

Giger is one of my favourite artists of all time, but yeah i really love the way you've sculpted some of these, they look really mad with all the impssibilities of them

keep up the good work!

[BaronDixon]

Thank you! Giger is my second-favorite artist, too. Not only do I cite his Biomechanical style as an influence on my own creature-work, but his improvisational approach has been of great inspiration to me. Check out my photoshop tutorial "Phreehand Phtoshop Phun: Episode 1". I think you'll enjoy it, too. --Baron

[Phobopheliac]

Sweet, ill take a look at it later, but yeah i base alot of my pictures on alot of his biomechanical stuff, theyre a really big influence on alot of my drawings