Hi guys. I figured I'll share some more of my "custom nature" work for tonight's Daily Nature Fix. I you missed my last post that talked about my career and explained my username, you can find it here: Daily Nature Fix: What is "Custom Nature"?? Explaining my name. In a nutshell, I design and build museum exhibits and zoo animal habitats, but I left the company on not-so-good terms, so I won't be sharing what company it was, or what institutes these exhibits were for.
Now then this was another early build of mine. I think it was around the 4th. It was for frilled lizards, native to Australia. Forgive the photo quality. These were taken in like 2011 with an iPhone 3GS haha:
^^^This is nearly the finished product. At this point it was just waiting to be placed on a base, then pushed up against a glass viewing window. I went with a red for the "mud" color in order to really scream "Australia!". You need to enact a bit of theater when you make a habitat for public display. Basically, play into some stereotypes just the right amount.
^^^Here is the earliest photo I have of this ones construction process. I wish I had some from even earlier, but I do not. Anyway, you can see the one tree casting is bright white, as well as the stone/rock castings. The log in the center is not a casting, I sculpted that one. The bark was made with a rubber bark texture pad we made, and the broken end I sculpted by hand. Just kind winged that. lol No paint was on the habitat at this point. In fact, you can see some raw fiberglass cloth in the back center. It's actually on an access door that I had to hide in plain sight, so to speak.
^^^Heres a view from the back side of the habitat, looking in through that door I mentioned.
^^^Here's the finished piece in place. It's two inhabitants seem to enjoy it and are using the logs and trees for basking, as designed. In the background you can see the cracks in the "mud bank" that I used to hide the seams of the door. That was one of my best door-hiding jobs.
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