8 weeks ago I was hired by Blizzard entertainment for the second time to make a display mannequin for their booth at the E3 videogame convention at the Los Angeles convention center. The character is called "Illidan" from their game, World of Warcraft.

Many of you may have heard of this game. There are about 6 million subscribers world-wide that paid $50 to purchase the game and then pay an additional $15 a month to play it online. That's a lot of clams per month. Needless to say, this company is making bank! 

I was sent a painting of the creature as a guide and went to work.  The specs I was given is as follows:

overall height:  9' to the tip of horns.

Wingspan: 16'

base: 3'x7'

glowing eyes, handpunched hair, costume and glowin the dark tatoos.

Below is the painting.

We start with an aluminum armature built by Guy Himber.

Sculptures: Head sculpted by Steve wang

 body sculpted by Tully Summers, Steve Wang and Casey Love

teeth sculpted by Steve Wang

hands by Russ Lukich

horns sculpted by Casey love

Molding:

Johnnie Saiko preps the head sculpt for molding.

Brian Goehring readies the body for fiberglass molding.

Head painting (work in progress)

Ricky Luevano applying magic liquid to the wing membrane.

Casey Love painting wing membranes

Johnnie preps the armature for the wing stems.

Andy Chavez applying the stems to the wings.

Ricky and Darnell Isom painting stems.

Fabulous hair job by Diana Yoo.

Darnell Isom applying magic to the neck seam.

Costumer Vanessa Mi Kyung Lee sews the pants on Illidan.

Blizzard's own Nick Carpenter lends a hand to age the pants.

Andy paints the glow paint on the tatoos.

Steve consults with Mike and wife Alex about the base.

Mike Mcgee and crew posing in front of the base they made.

Roberto Molina and Ken Rizzo ages Illidan's ankle wraps.

Nick makes final adjustment to Illidan's belt.

The finished product:

the setup crew at the convention center.

That's all folks!

The credits: