Mini Lesson! Excerpted from Garage Monsters - Direct Creature Hand Fabrication

How to Make Monster Hands, Feet, Claws and Teeth

• Watch Garage Monsters in its entirety HERE: Garage Monsters - How To Make Creature FX On A Budget
• Watch the $2.99 Mini Lesson HERE: Creature Hands Fabrication

Your new puppet will be AWESOME, but you are running out of time, and you forgot to sculpt, mold, cast, and paint up some scrawny, sinewy MONSTER HANDS. DAMMIT!

Well. You're in luck. Shannon Shea covered something JUST LIKE THAT in his first Garage Monsters lesson. Direct Fabrication 101. 

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• Building Custom Miniature Monster Hands
• More Courses with Shannon Shea

Building Custom Miniature Monster Hands

Much like any in our mini lesson series, this technique will live in your Monster Maker toolbox until the end of time. He'll show you a way to dream up any shape and texture of grippy, scary, handy thingy your mind can possibly handle.

Starting with some floral wire, some propoxy, some cotton, and liquid latex, this set of skills will impress that shop owner who just hired you to save him time and make him badass monsters simultaneously!

Go get 'em, Monster Makers!

(The Geck Head (Shannon's nickname for his invented race of creatures, the Geckoniki) waits for his claws to be installed. For better carnage.)

(Shannon Shea demonstrates how a machine makes spinning wire faster.)

(Pro Poxy 20 is the material Shannon Shea uses for tiny claws.)

(This floral wire skeleton is posable and grippy enough to take the latex and built-up fiber.)

(Shannon Shea uses a skewer to wrap more wet fibers before creating the 'veins & sinew' out of more liquid latex.)

More Courses with Shannon Shea:

Garage Monster Series:

• Garage Monsters - How To Make Creature FX On A Budget
• Garage Monsters 2 - How To Make Creature FX On A Budget
• Garage Monsters - Shop Basics - Mini-Tutorial STREAM & Compilation DVD

Mini-Lessons:

• Garage Monsters Guide To Workshop Setup
• The Garage Monster's Guide To Sculpting Tools
• The Garage Monster's Guide To Sculpting Clay
• The Garage Monster's Guide To Airbrushes

The Business Of Making Monsters Series - Invaluable tips for turning your passion for character creation into a lucrative career:

• The Business Of Making Monsters - Part 1
• The Business Of Making Monsters - Part 2
• The Business Of Making Monsters - Part 3