The Mad Lab

I’m sure most of us remember Zim, that little green alien who came to earth to conquer it for his most tallest. Well he’s still at it, along with his minion Gir.

Recently he decided to try and use the awesome power of Halloween to help in his goals. Once he realized the holiday wasn’t about a giant holy space wiener and the people of earth rallying around the “great pumpkin” out ultimate space defense.

So he decided to send Gir out to gather information, Gir already knows a thing or two about Halloween thanks to all the television he watches and the first thing he did was go down to the local cemetery to dig up a disguise.

How to coming in a few hours.

in making Gir i figured out a lot of tricks i'll be using later, from quick bones to how to age them.

to start take a paper towle roll and cut it from top to bottom,

roll it slightly tighter and tape in place. this will be the backbone.

The front of the rib cage was cut from the carboard bottom of a 24 pack of water.

The rib cage was made of tightly rolled newspaper and cut to fit.

The hups were cut from the same cardboard as the ribcage, a slice was cut from the bottom to help them curve a little.

A ring of cardboard was taped to the bottom of the spine to act as a base and suport fo the hips.

Tape the hips in place and cut out the holes.

Girs head started out as a plastic bag shaped with tape, because the top of his head is flat i made it upside down.

Now its time to start papermachieing. for the body start with the hips to make sure you have a strong base.

the bones were made the same way as the spine except with toilet paper rolls and two small paper balls taped to each end.

once everything is dry sketch out the face you want, then cut out the eyes and remove the paper from the head. make sure you save the eye cut out because they will be put back in.

Take a sheet of newspaper and fold it over again and again until its about two inchs wide then fit it into the eye hole. slip in the eye cut out letting it sit about an inch away from the head.

Gir's fingers were cut out like this.

then they are cut halfway up and folded slightly to give them depth.

his atenia was another roll of newspaper with a ball taped to the end.

the antiean is then tapped to his head.

Now its time for painting. i'm the first to admite i'm not very good at painting but i finally figured out a good way to do it. first everything got an almost flesh colored covering.

Then make a small amount of brown paint, add water in about a 2/3 mixture. take a papertowle and wad it up, dap it in the liquid and dap it on the bone lightly.

repeat with green, which while not very visable helps bring out the age.

now just hot glue the bones together, paint the eyes and ateniean and you're done.