ceramics — Studiocool.cool

I started making ceramics in 2022. I make ceramic figurines and sculptures of various shapes and sizes. Anthropomorphized Bugs, food items and animals, happy mutated humanoid blobs and their friends. Playing with the theme of Kawaii cuteness - the appeal of a shy, childlike and innocent character. I keep adding new pieces here so newer pieces will come first and as you scroll down you can see my whole body of work.

In summer of 2024 I have started trying out a different clay - with heavy grain texture to make bigger pieces with. I recreated a sculpture group “Mammals” in a smaller version. They will be shown in a group exhibition in Japan in November.

„Mammals“ is a two part sculpture piece of my Monkey-Lama characters. The two smaller ones are happily humping each other while the big one is watching with a neutral expression. He’s not sure how to feel about this revealing display. Does it make him sad because he’s lonely? Or happy because he’s single and free?

In 2024 I have started to explore how I can connect digital 3D and ceramics. I have made a 3D shader that mimics the specific look my ceramics have after firing which turned out quite good! It combines two materials, one rough and one “glazed” - the way it would be on a ceramic figurine. There are dust speckles on the surface, like dust would settle on a real ceramic and tiny cracks in the surface.

I also used digital 3D to visualize potential sculptures that I want to build - sort of like a digital sketch book. This is really helpful to work out how a shape can look from different angles and to then decide how to construct it.

I then transferred the animation of the character walking onto a sequence of ceramic figurines - which did work ok but was way more difficult than the other way around. I broke the walkcycle down to 8 phases and made 8 sculptures which together form the walk. It would be more legible if i had glazed them all with the same colour. But that’s boring :)