Brilliant concept & video. I've seen so many DIY videos where the presenter waffles on & on without saying anything useful. Nice to see one short, sharp & shiny.
I loved this so much I made it, except I added miniature suction cups from a plastic dollar store soap dish along all its arms. Added lotsa steampunk bits too.
It looks excellent. We've just shot a Steampunk advert using ours. (currently in post). I used stop motion techniques to animate the octopus. It is very effective with all the wiggling tentacles.
Hey, I love your videos, they're really cool, you're a great Steampunk artist. I love th way you layer the paint, it really gives it that rusty brass/copper look to it. I think this is my favourite one of your videos. :)
this is freaking awesome!! wish i'd seen it sooner, have a steampunk wedding to go to this weekend, and this would have been...well...freaking awesome!!
These are the type of great RU-vid videos that Inspire tinkerer's like you and me to go out and build our own version of these silly projects and yeah they're totally silly and useless but what a lot of fun and creativity involved in building them my hat's off to you sir no pun intended
I absolutely love this piece! I've wanned to make a octopus lamps since I saw an art sculpture as one but have thought it to be to hard. But you helped me to realize how to do it. Maybe not easy but moderate depending on your resources and inventivness I guess. I'm planning on using shower metal hoses as tentacles instead. Maybe heating them up so they get that mainly magical blue color. If I'm not wrong I think that depending on how long you heat the metal, a diffrent color will appear. Maybe it depends on if you cool it in oil but for sure it depends on the metal. Like with aluminum not much would happen except for accidently vapourize it. But Stainless steel I belive is perfect, also black steel. Then after that being made I might use some copper paste or zink paste to apply kind of how you did or transparent, maybe possible mixing it with something oily or waxy to make it separate a bit but the problem would probably be to making it sticky enough to stay on it for drying...
Thanks I think i going to try my hand at making a octopus but in a larger scale because i have a large wall that can use a peace of art and this will come in handy.
This is excellent! I've borrowed your idea and expertise to make a couple of octopi of my own, with slight modifications. One now sits on an old bowler hat of mine, while the other has been attached to the shoulder of a jacket, a bit like an octopus epaulette/aiguillette. I've got a video on here showing them, and given you due acknowledgement. Many thanks again!
Could you list the paints that you used please? I was really amazed with that copper. The brand and type would be great for the copper. The other s would be cool too. But just the copper is anything. Great video.
I want to make one of these for a top hat! I don't have the tools to make that semicircle wooden piece for inserting the tentacles, though, so will probably use Apoxie Sculpt, which is pretty hard when it dries.
The one thing you might want to try is adjusting the balance. As the Octopus is to the side in this model the weight does unbalance the pith helmet a bit, this is fixed by using the chin strap. If you can mount the Octopus more to the back/top you might get it to balance better. Good luck.
They are sold in big box stores like Lowes or Home Depot. They are used to stop cabinet drawers and doors from banging when shut. I think they are near the paint brush section at Lowes. You could also just use silicone caulking and form it into balls.
