This is a cheesy Polaroid of the nearly complete clay sculpture. It was used as a preview so the directors could approve of the design.

Someday we'll get a digital camera and you fine folks won't have to suffer through this kind of imagery. But it served it's purpose: I was able to post it on the web quickly, the directors were able to make comments, I didn't have to waste a whole roll of 35mm film, and to my knowledge no one was scarred by the experience. (If you heard otherwise, keep it to yourself.)

Front and rear views of the fiberglass underskull. As with Mack I went the poor man's route and made the skull by lining the mold with clay (3/8" to 1/2"), covering that with plastic food wrap, and then laying in the fiberglass. In this case the wrap was rose colored, and you can see where the wrap was embedded in the epoxy resin.

The mechanics were much simpler than Mack; the production required much less movement. So Ahrimanes has independent eyebrows, a moving jaw, and flexible neck. You can see the elaborate vertebrae construct in the back view - a 3/4" spring clamped to the head and torso. It provided a full range of motion, which was controlled by a stick attached to the skull that extended a foot or more below the base.

This is the finished head in normal light. You can see one of the eyes, which were 3.6v light bulbs embedded in 5-minute epoxy. The lights were connected to a variable voltage power supply, and that allowed us to increase the intensity of the eyes when Ahrimanes was angry. I draped black velvet behind the eyes and in the mouth so none of the innards would show.