“Especially the director can touch the sculpture, can work with you on it, and can gain ownership.” He works with oil-based clay, a faster medium that lets him manifest new ideas in the heat of the moment.
“The beauty of this medium is that you can see right away,” Blasich said. From there, it’s a back-and-forth development. Often, the maquette artist jumps in after the initial character concept. “A maquette was used for animators and directors to visualize character design that they came up with on paper in a three-dimensional way,” Blasich said. To explain further, he recalls early Disney films. However, he mainly provides a pivotal part of the character-development process on animated films and video games, helping establish and refine characters’ look and feel. As his “Shark Tale” anecdote attests, maquettes can translate a film’s concept. The original maquette Blasich created for a character in “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.” Courtesy of Andrea Blasich.īlasich, Academy of Art University instructor in the School of Animation and Visual Effects (ANM), has been a maquette sculpture artist for nearly 30 years.
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