Building Blocks

Building Blocks from Vanessa Chan on Vimeo.

My senior film from SCAD. It's a stop motion short with crochet puppets, I had a great time creating this film and I hope you enjoy!

Maple Brown Sugar Ice Cream

It's cooling down, but I'm still making ice cream. It's one of those year round foods!

Dark Chocolate Grand Marnier Truffles

I'm already planning for the holidays and have been practicing some truffle recipes to give away at Christmas. I've always loved those chocolate oranges that you can smash apart and eat, but making your own candy is so much more personal and sweet, so I decided to go with my own orange Grand Marnier truffle!

New Sculpt

I'm working on a new puppet right now, currently in the sculpt stage. For this puppet I used a much harder clay, Chavant clay NSP hard brown, rather than the Roma plastalina I used for this sculpt. I really like the Chavant clay, it takes a bit to get used to since it needs to be heated up to get it pliable, but it hardens up again when cooled. This makes it easier to get more detail and I'm not worried about denting my sculpt. I have a lot more smoothing and detailing work to do, but I can't wait to finish this puppet!