No Snow Yet? Ever? Live Vicariously Through This Homage to Calvin and Hobbes

Jim Frommeyer and Teague Chrystie‘s tribute to Bill Watterson‘s snowmen is somewhat more than meets the eye. Frommeyer explains their process:

First thing to know is that every shot is practical.  Every snowman was built from scratch.  And it was all filmed on my dining table.

There was no single method used for anything.  Some snowmen were playdough (out of focus snowmen), some were wire frame sculpty models (hero snowmen), paper mache (larger models).  We did try to keep clay with clay and mache with mache within shots.

Depending on the size of the shot and model, either sugar, flour, or a 1:4 mix of both was used.  The smaller stuff used flour.  Paint the model white and roll it in sugar.  Boom.  Snowman.

(via Tor.)

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Susana Polo thought she'd get her Creative Writing degree from Oberlin, work a crap job, and fake it until she made it into comics. Instead she stumbled into a great job: founding and running this very website (she's Editor at Large now, very fancy). She's spoken at events like Geek Girl Con, New York Comic Con, and Comic Book City Con, wants to get a Batwoman tattoo and write a graphic novel, and one of her canine teeth is in backwards.

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