FORGING A MAN OF STEEL
If you're a fan of Superman or Mutton Chops, enjoy our latest
article showcasing sculptor Andy Bergholtz's creation of our
upcoming Premium Format Figure. You'll get the first look at his
impressive portraits (and we also show Superman's face).
In the room fondly referred to as “the Sculptor’s Parlor” deep in
the heart of the Sideshow Collectibles building Andy Bergholtz
works diligently. Life-sized skulls of humans and monsters keep a
vigil from above, just below a plaque that reads Haunted Mansion.
On the wall to the right of the desk is another plaque, stamped
with the words of Walt Disney: “Here you leave today and enter the
world of yesterday, tomorrow and fantasy.”
It’s appropriate. Andy’s eyes, framed as they are by his reddish
mutton chops, peer through his framed glasses at his current
project. Which, as it turns out, is the Man of Tomorrow himself.
He’s forging a Man of Steel, carving from a dull grey material and
into 1/4-scale life the Premium Format Figure of Superman™.
“It’s not a specific comic book version,” he says. “That is, the
design isn’t based on the artwork of any single artist. Our idea
was to just sort of draw a little from one artist, a little from
another.”
Illustrator Kris Anka’s concept art for the figure lies propped up
behind the sculpt. In it, the Man of Steel stands wrapped in a
frozen fog atop an icy pinnacle of the Fortress of Solitude, eyes
stern and burning red, his brilliant blue uniform and billowing red
cape the only colors evident in the harsh arctic environment.
The figure will come with two head sculpts. “He’ll have one
staring-into-the-distance portrait,” Andy explains. “The other one
will be looking down, like in the Anka print, with very stern eyes,
like he’s getting ready to light something up with his heat vision.
After working on Batman, it’s rather exciting for me to be working
away now at another iconic figure from the DC Universe.”
(Quelle:
http://www.sideshowtoy.com/experience/2012/06/24/forging-a-man-of-steel/)
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