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The making of "The Goat" mask [12]

The horns were proving to be a big problem that I needed to overcome. So I kept drawing new different ways to do them, and trying to do them. Than I had the idea of using a different material.

I thought of using some kind of metal, but didn't had the means to make it, and also I didn't want to make the mask unbearably heavy.

I later got the idea of making the horns out of thick wire, that I found in a store, I could shape it in the forms I wanted and than soldering it together. I already had a soldering rod. So I started working on it.

Here was where I found another problem, my soldering rod didn't seem to be hot enough to be able to solder them together. So I thought to by a new one, one that could get hotter. So I bought one, but still I was faced with the same problem.

I tried many ways to do this, but with no prevail... At this point I was stuck, and in my eyes with no way to get out of this point. The only way would have to be for me to bye a big equipment in order to be able to do arc welding.

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The making of "The Goat" mask [11]

I started by making a sheet of plastic with polymorph, and also I drew circles in a paper in order to make a perfect or near perfect spiralling horn. Also so after drawing it I could possible see which of the two choices could be better, The horns going inwards or outwards.

Here you can see the plastic sheet and an outline drawing of the plastic sheet.
I came across more than one problem in this part. The big one was that cutting this material in a spiral shape, especially when it goes to the middle of the plastic sheet. Other problem was how to get a spiral that would feel right, and not hand made.

So at this point I came to a point that I couldn't go further. I tried other ways to do the horns. Some different ways that could be easier than doing it this way.

Some of the ways where:

- make many triangles of different sizes and than melt them together in a horn shape.

- make many rectangular sheets of plastic and melt them together like the one above or close to it.

- other way was to make tree long plastic rods and make it in a long triangle, than melt it in a way that it would become horn shape, afterwards use some plastic sheets to make the outside.
- and some others.


In the end, all of them where really difficult, to make for different reasons. Some for the complexity, or the many different parts. Other problem that came across was the lack of stability.

The making of "The Goat" mask [10]

Now that I had the face and the chin in an advanced I decided to jump to the next part, the horns.

In order to begin making the horns I had to decide how I wanted them. By this I mean, if I wanted the horns to roll inside or out. As it is shown on the pictures underneath.

               Horns outwards                             |                Horns Inwards

The next step was for me to chose the form of the horns, at this point I knew I wanted them to have a rough look, and a kind of rings that are thicker or higher than the rest of it. Like goats have.
So after looking at many different pictures of goats and horns, I saw something that could be good and helpful to this part of the project. It was that many goat horns aren't round by themselves, but triangular shaped. It meant that I could make 3 different sheets of plastic and than heat them together.

So with all this information I decided to make it triangular because it seemed to be the easiest way, and also making it easier to make both of the horns close to the same shape and form.

The making of "The Goat" mask [9]

At this point I thought of making some teeth to attach on the jaw. I thought on making them fairly big and separately, after they were done I would heat the jaw in the part where I would want the teeth, and press them in.

Some of the teeth

It was around this time that I came across a little problem. Since the jaw was the first thing I did with the plastic it came out very thick. It isn't a big problem the thing is that it's much thicker than the face part.

So in order to correct this a little bit, I destroyed it and made a new one, a simpler and thinner one.

The new simpler jaw

The new simpler jaw

As you can see, it is much thinner than the previous one.
Later I decided to change the teeth to thinner ones, but since have no pictures of them and I'm talking about it an the jaw I thought it would make no harm to tell it now.
Also you may thing that all that I did before with the other jaw was unnecessary, or that at least I could let it out of this posts and jump right to the next part. But as I said before, this is the process of how it was done, with all the error and decisions changes.