Bob was the best.

A rough, anodyne werebear sketch in WED tonight on the first clean buck I could find, first time pushing clay in 9 months or so. Far from a keeper, just trying ideas for a potential project with friends.

Hey chump, get like a banana, and split.

New Year, New Me, rawr. #werelion #rogersparkslyon #rogersparklion

Chaney Jr & Costello promo shot for 1948's A&C Meet Frankenstein. Emile LaVigne had taken over spfx makeup duties from Jack Pierce. Lou himself would sit in the monster makeup chair five years later for A&C Meet Dr Jekyll ... or at least some of the time, when his stuntman wasn't sitting in for him.

Don't forget to invite Baron Ironbone & Fray The Wizard to your New Year's Eve party! #wererats #baronironbone #fraythewizard

Dick Smith's prehensile handiwork (footiwork?) in 1980's Altered States.

Gorillaing ain't easy. #gorillasuit

I hope the Christmas Ape brought you everything you asked for this year. #edgarilla #gorillasuit

Getting ready for the Big Day. Unfortunately the reindeer are on strike so we had to hire the Wizard of Oz flying monkeys at triple scale. #edgarilla #gorillasuit #christmasape

Pigeons, giant eagles, owlbear chicks - all the same job hazard to a stone wizard. #obozleyus #stonewizard

Pretty sure this poster was made for an overseas (UK?) rerelease, hence the use of Karloff's 1953 Hyde instead of Lon Jr, which lead to a fanfic convo between myself and buddy Rock wherein Larry Talbot is slipped a potion mickey from Dr Jekyll. Dreamy sigh.

I built two wererats at the same time for a friend's DCC game appearance. Here's Baron Ironbone the barbarian sizing up his competition. I desperately wish I had better pics of these guys, and this poor guy deserved better armor. Maybe someday ...

Apologies for a rare AI art share, but a friend was generating action figure packaging of all my characters this am, so forgive the self centeredness. Thought it was funny this variant is wearing holiday corduroys and packing heat etc.

Fare thee well, Bob and Tracy.

"Honey, there's a gorilla in the garden again ..." #edgarilla #gorillasuit

Someone's got a case of the Mondays #edgarilla #gorillasuit

Funny to see Junoon make the rounds again - that movie is a blast. Related: flashback to my weretiger in the makeup chair. #weretiger #thomasptiger

Technically my first wererat suit

C'monnnn pizza dude ... #edgarilla #gorillasuit #gorillasuitday

Lobos De Arga will forever be underrated. Top 3 for me, great FX work as well. Might build this suit and retire.

Where was the wrong turn at Albuquerque? Teen Wolf '85? Adventures of a Two Minute Werewolf? The Howling's "lycanthropy is a gift"? Etc

Always curious who made the decision to include a nekkid wolfed out Lon Jr on the '41 poster. Did FX artist Jack Pierce think it was hilarious, or worry he'd have to build that for the sequel? He did start to lay yak hair further down the chest in future sequels ...

The work The Elseys and crew did for 2015's The Wiz was off the hook ...

Today's been completely bananas. #edgarilla #gorillasuit

Always wonder what's going through the mind of whoever gets cast as the Lion in Oz, if they lean in to the Lahr or steer clear. Funny enough, I didn't use any Lahr Lion pics as reference when I built mine, though I'm sure the subconscious energy was radiating ...

When your best bud ships your C.O.B. (crate of bananas) C.O.D. #edgarilla #gorillasuit #gorillasuitday

The fog comes in on big cat feet. #rogersparkslyon #rogersparklion #werelion

Suiting up halfway might end up with '76 Bowie vibes. #werelion #rogersparklion #rogersparkslyon

Can't believe I ate the whole thing ... #rogersparkslyon #rogersparklion #werelion #thembones

"The most racking pangs succeeded: a grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a horror of the spirit that cannot be exceeded at the hour of birth or death. Then these agonies began swiftly to subside, and I came to myself as if out of a great sickness ..." R.L. Stevenson, 1886

An American Weregorilla in London (📸 ericbussingphotography IG)

While I still have the Ding Ding folder open ... A version of this photo still hangs in my studio (thx Jen!) We took him out for sledding later that day.

Panda 2.0 which I was building in parallel with the gorilla, but the gorilla stole all the thunder and panda got shelved after I moulded him. Maybe someday?

Promo photo from Thomas P. Tiger's Everlovin' Saturday Roundup.

Clip from Thomas P. Tiger's Everlovin' Saturday Roundup (w/ Ding Ding the panda). No idea if this GIF will animate up here ...

47 days until Christmas, y'all ... #edgarrilla #gorillasuit #christmasape

*insert royal throne snark here* #rogersparkslyon #rogersparklion #werelion

When the mainstays at the end of the bar question your jukebox selections ...

When Medusa's hair ain't a problem, but general wizard incompetence might be ... #obozleyus #stonewizard

Everyone's talkin' about Heidi Klum's medusa, but who's talkin' about her hubby's stone statue?

Wearing three different characters in a year is a first for me, me thinks - considering how batshit things have been overall, I'll take it. (1 of 2)

When you discover Zebra Stripe gum contains 0% zebra. #rogersparkslyon #rogersparklion #werelion #zebrastripe

That was the 3rd Royal Portraitist to be eaten that week ... #rogersparkslyon #rogersparklion #werelion #royalportrait

#alleycat #rogersparkslyon #rogersparklion #werelion

Old Style, Old Lion #rogersparkslyon #rogersparklion #werelion

"We saw you order your steak well done and would like to have a word ..." @ysengrinwolf.bsky.social and I in full moon mode.

Somehow the half-orc managed to take more selfies than I do in human form. #zarak #deadhorsebeating