Every few years, I would have my students watch the movie Labyrinth and the documentary about the making of this fun fantasy movie that starred David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly. A Jim Henson and George Lucas production in the mid 1980s, it was made a time when artists and craftspeople were still creating most of the “special effects” for films.
As always, this movie inspired creative thinking as students designed and made a variety of goblins, creatures and characters of their own. Some years they made their sculptures from paper-mache and/or cloth in the style of Dan Reeder’s “Screamers“, and some years they created an armature of wire and aluminum foil which they covered with a thin layer of Sculpey synthetic clay.
