11:38 - Even the hidden armature is art. Such a joy to watch your process.

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! It was a fun armature to puzzle out

Love your approach to technical videos. Just enough to show where the tricky bits will be but without going into too much detail on how those issues were resolved (even though I would watch from beginning to end if you did). Beautiful sculpt!

@vantikistudio

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I always wrestle with how much to include when editing 😅

Okay... as a 90’s baby all I can see is a Pokemon right there!! So cool! Great work as always and thanks for sharing your process!

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

😂

My guess was a hermit crab. Great video - looking forward to the rest of the TTTs.

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

Good guess - but Munktiki also did a fantastic hermit crab! 😄

Wow! Can’t wait to watch the mold making for this one

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

You and me both!

Hey there, just got hooked on your videos a couple of weeks ago and now I find myself starved for more. I everything is OK and you are rejuvenating your creative process.

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching!! I’ve been working on a client project that I can’t share just yet. I am filming, though, and will have a new episode hopefully in a week (or two) 🤞

Absolutely love it! Extra excited for this one :)

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Me too!

Yes!!! I thought maybe it was one of those great index fossils! Absolutely beautiful!

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

🦑+🐚

A tiki magical creature!! Absolutely love the process and thank you for sharing it with us!!

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

Mahalo! Thank you for watching!

Your videos are as educational as they are hypnotic. So incredibly impressed with your talent!

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I appreciate it!!

Ah! So inspirational. So much talent.

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Looks great can’t wait to see how you are going to cast it with all that detail. Especially where the body meets the shell

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

It’s gonna be tricky for sure! Spoiler: I’ll be casting the shell and body separately 🤓

I am in love with this sculpture!!

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

I absolutely love seeing you using my tools!

@vantikistudio

Жыл бұрын

I love using them!

I love your videos and binged all of them after going down a rabbit hole of researching how to make my own mug as a creative outlet. I love to see where you've come with your videos and your skill and dedication is incredibly inspiring. Thank you for making them!

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! And thanks for watching! Have fun and best of luck on your mug making adventure!

amazing work. I respect you

@vantikistudio

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Absolutely love who you are.

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

Mahalo!! Thank you for watching!

I just admire your process so much! Can’t wait to see the rest of the progress on this piece!

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

You and me both! Thank you so much!

@craft-o-matic2377

3 жыл бұрын

@@vantikistudio How long before we get a new video? Soon I hope!! Lisa

I can’t wait to see how you’ll glaze it!

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

Me too!

Whaaaat, you smashed the original sculpt for recycled clay!? Golly gosh, wouldn't it be worth something one day? You could encase it in resin and a fan would probably buy it as a collector's piece

@vantikistudio

2 жыл бұрын

Ha! I dunno - it got pretty beat up in the demolding process

@nubbinthemonkey

2 жыл бұрын

@@vantikistudio think of it as 'original condition' :P I've been watching a lot of antiques roadshow lately and a lot of the time sketches, working drawings, mock-ups for sculptures can be worth a lot to collectors if from a celebrated artist. People are interested in the process of things. Unfortunately for artists, they may be long gone before people really celebrate their work

Lovely! Can't wait for the next installment of TTT!!

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for watching!

@serpentsforhair

3 жыл бұрын

@@vantikistudio Thank YOU so much for making these! They're so enjoyable to watch! Much love from Singapore ☀️

I recently discovered your channel (and your insta afterwards) and i absolutely love your videos. At first i was confused about the term 'mug'. Who is going to drink coffee out of a dead bastard? Love all the technical reasoning you explain, the steps, the style, the process and the rythm couldnt be better. Often i jump in videos because people are repeating themselves over and over but not in your videos. Everything is straight to the point and interesting. And if you start rambling a 'editing you' jumps in which is funny. Hope you keep on making them. There could be more viewers so that it brings something monetary to you. Thanks for these videos!!

@vantikistudio

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I always worry that I am rambling too much 😂

@____Ann____

2 жыл бұрын

@@vantikistudio you are absolutely not! No repeating, no superfluous info, just to the point. I am often skipping sections in videos because i am not used to the American rambling. But you are almost European, haha. Interesting stuff and a lot of talking because mold making is complicated so it needs a well tought over process. Thank you for all the interesting info!

1:36 in and I’m thinking it’s a nautilus... 1:50 maybe sea snail? 3:25 dang it! Glad you’re back and everything’s ok; we missed you last week!

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

Now I want to make a sea snail mug!

@natmickan

3 жыл бұрын

@@vantikistudio that would be awesome! Whilst I’ve got you, I just wanted to say thank you for your videos. They’ve inspired me to get off my butt and get my business started. If you ever want a completely custom notebook, please let me know; it’s the least I can do :)

Hello! I just wanted to say I've followed you for ages - since way back when you would just do a couple of slab mugs (I think) at a time. You were featured on a website called "The Sneeze" where you made two orange brain fungus tiki mugs for the site's creator - Steve. I feel in love with your mugs immediately. I followed you while you made geocache coins, tiles, skull mugs with trepaning holes in their heads, tiki volcanoes, and many others. Somehow along the way, I lost track of you! I think I had trouble loading your site on whatever old computer I had and then I thought it was down permanently. Whatever the situation was, I thought of you about a month ago, found your channel, and have quickly consumed all of your content. I'm so glad to be able to put a face to Vantiki, and am having such fun time learning about your processes. Your channel has been a calm in the storm for me so to speak. Anyway, thank you for all that you do, and for sharing these glimpses of your life with us. I promise someday I'll buy one of your mugs once the world is "normal" and paychecks are a thing again, but for now I'll support you with likes and views! ♥️ Thank you again! Ps- I'm 5 minutes in, and after hint 3 I'm guessing hermit crab. Can't wait to see what it is!

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! The brain mugs!! That feels like 100 years ago 😄 - so glad you discovered me again!

@AussieDadBBQ

3 жыл бұрын

@Sarah LaApple I thought a hermit crab too, for a little while.

Your videos have taught me so much, thank you for putting these out there! Any advice for cleaning slip casting tools? I have a homemade clay trap for my throwing body but since the casting slip is deflocculated it doesn’t settle out :/. Any tips?

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching! I clean my tools in the sink after casting, and I throw away all my trimmed pieces from castings. I have a clay trap set up under the sink to capture the clay/glaze/plaster before it makes its way down my pipes 😄

First guess was Nautilus, second guess Ammonite, then I switched to a Crab living in a Nautilus shell. Haven't see the movie, otherwise I might have guessed it right.

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

Good guessing!

NAUTILUS!!

@teetotaltiki1259

3 жыл бұрын

Never mind...just got to 3:30 and I've been debunked.

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

Good try!!

Hey! I adore your videos. I’m curious what video editing software you use, and why!

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I started using iMovie on my phone, but as things got more complex I made the leap to Adobe Premiere. I already have a creative cloud subscription, so I figured I have a great tool, I might as well put it to use 😄

I thought it was Gary from Sponge Bob

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

Ha!

OMG it's Tuesday already.

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

time flies!

So cool!! When abouts will they go on sale? Love your videos!

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

Not sure on the sale date - still lots of sculpting to do, then there’s molding, casting, glazing…. So much!

@jonk7278

3 жыл бұрын

@@vantikistudio I look forward to watching the progress you share with all of us. I love all your work but I think this one is already becoming my new favorite Vantiki creation!

Recently discovered your channel. And I am fascinated with the whole process! How do you sculpt the back where the name is?

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching! I’m glad you found my channel! I like to keep the lettering portion of the process a ✨mystery ✨

So cute. Can’t wait to see it with more detail.

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

Me too!

I would give a foot to be able to shadow you and learn from you~

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

Keep your foot!! There is no foot fee for watching the videos 😄

@ghetorange9604

3 жыл бұрын

@@vantikistudio Thank goodness, but damn whomever can get you as a hands on mentor would be massively lucky

Where did you get that little scissor lift stand?

@vantikistudio

Жыл бұрын

Here’s a link! amzn.to/3I6XXUZ

Hello again from Portugal. What you are using is not a natural clay for sculping? And when ir colds doesn't Stay very hard? I like the amnonite, because I geologist.

@vantikistudio

Жыл бұрын

The clay I sculpted the original sculpture in is Monster Clay, a wax based modeling clay

Got a technical question for you. I'm having issues with my pottery plaster. I know its a 100:70 mixing ratio, so what I've been doing is weighing out the water then multiplying that number by 1.7 to give me the plaster. Is that correct? Then ill let it sit in the water for 2 mins then mix for 3 mins with a drill mixer. But it seems to be coming out super thick. Also how long do you normally wait to demoed the model from the plaster?

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

Aloha! I mix my plaster at a different ratio, so my mix times and results may be different than yours. I do a 2 minute slake (soak), but only mix with a drill mixer for 1 minute. Mixing accelerates the setting of the plaster - and the studio is warm right now (summer!) and that heat also speeds things up. I’d try backing off on your mix time. If the mix is still too think after just a minute of mixing, I’d check your ratios of plaster to water. Good luck!!

@controlledchaosx

3 жыл бұрын

@@vantikistudio what ratio do you use if you don't mind me asking. In using us no 1 pottery plaster

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

You need to take a peek at my plaster casting video. I go deep into all of this, and link to my go-to resources in the description 🤙 kzread.info/dash/bejne/n6iqr7lyocjHepc.html

@controlledchaosx

3 жыл бұрын

@@vantikistudio thanks, I will watch it again, I guess I missed it

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

@@controlledchaosx sure thing! Be sure to look in the description - I list the book that I pull my plaster mixing formulas from. Now - they work for me, I can’t guarantee that they are best for you 😄

I follow your work, I wonder why you do not use a 3D printer

@vantikistudio

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for following! Someday I may go the 3D printer route - but there are several hurdles that are currently keeping them out of the studio: 1- I'd need a high resolution resin printer capable of printing large forms, and they are expensive 2- I'd need a clean room in the studio for it to live, and our space is small 3- most importantly, I'd need to become very proficient at 3D sculpting, and my attempts to learn Zbrush have been very frustrating. I dream of the day that I can print my molds - but I do enjoy having a clay model in my hands that I can adjust on the fly while sculpting

how do you put your brand on the tiki mug?

@vantikistudio

2 жыл бұрын

Since this mug has no base I had to press my logo into the side of the master sculpture before molding

13:59 does that say f**ker?

@vantikistudio

Жыл бұрын

Ha! No - it says “LED Flicker” - I was calculating voltage for the LEDs in the fireball island board.

Why do you call everything a “mug”?

@vantikistudio

Жыл бұрын

Because that is what they are! The term “tiki mug” and “cocktail mug” has been well established for ceramic vessels to hold and serve mixed cocktails in.