Season's Greetings! Big thanks to family, friends, clients and partnered businesses for all the support from this past year. We look forward to service and continue our commitment to our valued customers in the New Year.

A while back, we were contracted by the television series, "Health Nutz", to produce mid-stage likeness figurative sculpture prop of the series lead, Buzz Jr. Riel (played by Kevin Loring) for their second season. Below are the completed sculpt with a few behind the scenes photos.

 

Meeting with Production Designer, Tink and Episode Director, Terry Ingram. 

In progress sculpting.

Armature prior to adding the WED Clay.

The Haunting Hour

Here's a trailer of The Haunting Hour episode we worked on, featuring a life size doll of the lead actress.

The Hub's new T.V series, The Haunting Hour premiered with their first episode, "Really You". We were fortunate to work with MastersFX and their great team (listed below) providing body sculpting, mould-making, finishing (fabrication, armature, seaming) duties during the production of the hero and stunt doll. 

The team of Artists: Howard Lau, Keith Lau

Jamie Salmon- Head Sculpt

Jackie Seo- Doll Arms Sculpt

Bruce Houston- Leg Sculpt 

Jason Ward- Casting
Yukiyo Okajima- Painting 

Vincent Yoshida & Richard- Mechanics
Kalynn Kallweit, Jennifer Latour, Amelia Smart- Seaming

Subcontracted from SFX Studio, we recently finished sculpting a full head Sasquatch prosthetic for the upcoming film, Embedded. Unfortunately we can’t post pictures till the film is released. Look for the full body creature suit built by the crew at SFX.

Just completed is a figurative sculpture prop for the first season of the T.V series, "Health Nutz". Look for pictures to be posted when the new show premieres in October 2010. http://www.healthnutz.tv/

It's a wrap! We had a great time working with MastersFX providing specialty props and puppets for the new television series, R.L.Stine's "The Haunting Hour", launching October 11, 2010 on the new Hasbro channel, the Hub.

With the announcement of the new Planet of the Apes prequel, titled "Rise of the Apes", in the works . Here’s our take on how the new apes and props may look like:

We’re thrilled to be featured on the cover of our home town newspaper, the Richmond Review. To read the full June 12, 2010 article please visit:
http://www.bclocalnews.com/richmond_southdelta/richmondreview/news/96098639.html?mobile=true

After a lengthy process in creating our tribute bust of "the Iceman".  The following is a photo montage of "Making of Chuck". Enjoy!

 

After all the hair-punching we brought out the hair clipper to shave off Chuck's trademark Mohawk.

Keith Lau hand- punching individual hair strands (eye lashes, brows, beard stubble, and "The Iceman's" distinctive goatee and Mohawk) into the silicone skin.

Harlow putting on the final details of freckles and spotting.

                                        


Harlow MacFarlene airbrushing layers of pigment to base out the flesh tones.

 Seaming and patch work completed.

 Eyes before they're put in the finishing silicone casting. Hand-made artificial resin eyes made by Jamie Salmon.

Howard Lau at work during the moulding the process. Setting up the wall, making a two part silicone mould with ultra-cal jacket.

Collaborative free-hand sculpture by Keith and Howard Lau, and Shaun Noelte.

Pipeline Modelshop launches our own Facebook page. Please visit:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/Richmond-BC/Pipeline-Modelshop/382648637128?ref=ts&ajaxpipe=1&__a=6/Pipeline-Modelshop/382648637128?ref=ts&ajaxpipe=1&__a=6

"Ice Man" revealed. With much anticipation of UFC 115 coming to Vancouver. We made a tribute bust in honor of our favourite MMA fighter, Chuck Liddell. Below is the completed silicone bust. We'll post our bronze version and making of Chuck pics soon.

A sneak peak revealing the people behind Pipeline Modelshop's projects and processes.

"Ice Man" Tribute Bust Revealed. We at Pipeline Modelshop are big UFC fans, as a personal project, we created a freehand likeness sculpture of our favourite Mixed Marital Arts Fighter, Chuck Liddell. This collaborative sculpt was completed by Keith and Howard Lau, Shaun Noelte with acrylic eyes made by Jamie Salmon.

Look for the finished art piece to be made out of silicone; which will be completed by Keith and Howard Lau with painting by Harlow McFarlene. The completed Silicone Bust and behind the scene pics will be posted up  soon.

Modelshop Artists: Keith and Howard Lau assist Pipeline friend and collaborator, Jamie Salmon of Avatar Sculpture Works during the epoxy moulding process of his latest sculpture master piece. Please visit his website http://www.avatarsculptureworks.com/ to view his larger than life hyper-realism sculptures.

Pipeline Modelshop's completed specialty display for the City of Richmond's shOPART Richmond Winter Festival of the Arts held during 2010 Winter Olympics (Feb.1- March 15, 2010). Designed by Pipeline Creative Inc.(http://www.pipelinecreative.ca/)