Lars Stranden @ Keep Kraken

resin cast medallions with keep kraken squid logo, painted in gold

holding resin cast medallions with keep kraken squid logo, painted in gold

Finished up these little rascals today! Figured the people crazy enough to support me deserved a little extra bit of nonsense 😄
Sculpted in Chavant clay, molded and cast in SmoothOn silicone and resin, and painted in whatever paints I had around
#clay #patreon #sculpting #handmade #keepkraken #resin

clay relief sculpt of the Keep Kraken logo on a medallion

silicone mold of the medallion sculpt, in front of two bottles of casting resin

Sculpting, molding and casting Royalty Loyalty Medallions for my most noble Patrons. Not really done much relief work before but I think it came out pretty OK?
Next up is cleaning up the resin casts before the prime/paint/varnish/wash/varnish dance begins 🫡 #art #handmade #sculpt #patreon #clay

Actually playing through EarthBound for the first time right now, its rad!

A bouquet of some very sloppy stop motion animation bits I did for my last YouTube video. I promise, they're bad on purpose - not because animation is hard and I don't know how to do it goodly 👍

Not all heroes wear capes. I mean some times he does. Or Hatsune Miku costumes. Absolute legend 😙👌

💀🐭⚡Making of Punisher Pikachu from my Pokémon diorama video!

(full video on my Youtube channel - link in profile)

#pokemon #pikachu #punisher #art #sculpture #clay #handmade #nintendo

I made Pikachu and gave him a GUN - a Pokémon diorama YouTube video by Keep Kraken

New video! Somehow got away with going this long without doing a Pokémon themed project, but I say no more! So in my eternal mission to ruin everyones childhood memories, I gave Pikachu a gun. Detective Pikachu? No thanks-this is Punisher Pikachu 💀
#pokemon #art #handmade #clay
youtu.be/jYGH5i5t0M4

thinking back ever so fondly to playing all of Firewatch with a beverage beside me being kept slightly below room temperature by my premium Goldblum koozie. It was a better, more innocent time, one I shall eternally treasure <3 Thanks to you all for making it!

youtube wrapped showing Chris Remo's channel as our most watched

While my main YouTube wrapped/recap/whatever was all crafting channels (naturally), the king of my non work account is @chrisremo.bsky.social by a giant margin; me and Mrs. Kraken watch Chris do the NYT crossword basically every single day while we eat breakfast 😄
Secretly the best thing on YT!

Throwback to one of my fave video projects from almost a year ago. This eyebrowless Chihiro Spirited Away diorama almost broke me but I sorta love it! There's like a real ghost kinda! #ghibli #handmade #keepkraken #resin #sculpture #epoxy #polymerclay #clay #diorama #spiritedaway #miyazaki

closeup of raptidon creature clay sculpt before being painted

moon man character clay head being covered in mold silicone

a UV resin cast of the front half of the moon man characters head

cheap cheese being injected into the hollow resin cast of the moon man characters head. It's pretty gross looking

A couple of behind the scenes pics from my Outer Worlds 2 diorama video for those of you who don't want to sit through my 30 minute shower of hilarious memes 😄
(youtube.com/@keepkrakenstudio)

#handmade #diy #art #sculpture #clay #resin #crafting #polymerclay #resinart #gameart #fanart #keepkraken

I put REAL CHEESE in RESIN for this Outer Worlds 2 Diorama YouTube video by Keep Kraken

I haven't had time to actually play The Outer Worlds 2 yet. Because I spent all my time making this rad diorama based on the amazing concept art Obsidian made 😄
youtu.be/A_9mJsDnKPo?...

#art @obsidian.net #fanart #clay #sculpture #theouterworlds2 #videogames #resinart #resin #moonman #cheese

As I am toiling away in the editing mines for the current video, the poll for the next project theme is now up on Patreon!
Some real gems in this selection if I may say so myself 😄

patreon.com/KeepKraken?u...

#patreon #clay #art #nintendo #pokemon #playstation #dontstarve #metalgearsolid #fanart

Melvyn Bragg decides to step down from presenting In Our Time After 26 years on the programme, the legendary presenter bids farewell to the series

Such a sadness. In Our Time is a truly wide-ranging, informative and accessible exploration of human expression and knowledge—a total justification of public service broadcasting. Through it Melvyn Bragg is among the most influential people on my inner life as an adult.
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Some photos from the last video project. Go watch it, ya dogs!
youtu.be/VuhlQpRHByU?...

#clay #sculpture #halflife3 #gameart #fanart #headcrab #diy #handmade

I made a HALF LIFE 3 diorama because Valve is NEVER making the game YouTube video by Keep Kraken

New project video! Half Life 3? Will Gabe ever decide we deserve it? Maybe not, but at least we can build false idols like this one to worship its ethereal image.
Sculpted in clay, painted in acrylics, varnished with tears.

youtu.be/VuhlQpRHByU

#valve #art #sculpture #handmade #diy #fanart #clay

Some behind the scenes pics

#diy #lotr #fanart #resin

I made the LORD OF THE RINGS resin diorama everyone asked for YouTube video by Lars Stranden

New video! youtu.be/MumdzOTHmDA?...

No surprise to anyone probably that it's another Lord of the Rings project, but in my defense I did have my viewers vote for this one, so blame them 😄
Sculpted in Cosclay, Chavant and Sculpey, painted with acrylics.
#lordoftherings #handmade #sculpture #diorama

Email from LinkedIn with the title "You appeared in 0 searches this week"

Not sure if LinkedIn is congratulating me or calling me a loser..🤔

Monster PSL

Dead Marshes ghost elf soldier

Ball pit with pit Bonnie from FNAF

Mario Kart but Mario is the kart

Congrats on 20k! 🥳
I was a visual effects artist for 16 years, but these past couple of years I've spent most of my time making hand crafted nerd related sculptures on Youtube :) Here are a couple of them! (looking at this random lineup I guess my color scheme is dark+saturated primary colors 😄)

Koopa Troopa drives custom Mario chassis kart on rainbow road

All the clay kart parts laid out

Throwback Friday! As my videos take forever to make, I'll post some old bangers in the interim😄 Here is one I initially named "Mario Kart But Mario Is The Kart" where our plumber friend is made to pay for his many violent stomping crimes (video: youtu.be/imD2ABMMVlM?... )
#supermario #mariokart #art

🍕 HUMAN ARTISTS, use only one piece to convince people to follow you #artshare

Might not be my best but it IS my most recent project on Youtube! I was a VFX artist in movie land for 15 years, but now all I do is make hand crafted nerd stuff on the internet. Paycheck and blood pressure both halved😄

Boh and Yu Bird in the window

Chihiro and No Face sitting in their seats inside the train to Swamp Bottom

Some stills from my last video for those of you who prefer your images to be stationary.

#ghibli #miyazaki #spiritedaway #sculpture #clayart #diorama

I made my favorite Studio Ghibli scene - Spirited Away diorama YouTube video by Lars Stranden

I made a Ghibli! This project (and the Sisyphean pursuit of editing it) took way longer than it should have, but all in all I'm pretty happy with the result! I mean there's a ghost man you can kinda see through, that's something right?
#spiritedaway #ghibli #clay #resin

youtu.be/XPHXdN8yHI0?...

I think I'm doing it wrong, I'm definitely on phase 3 but phase 2 is still in full effect...🤔

I know right?! Wife had to convince me too that it wouldn't feel like the ceiling was about to crush me, fast forward and we're now an exclusively "all ceilings same dark color as walls" household 😄

Congrats, this looks amazing! Love the green :) And welcome to Dark Ceiling Gang, we have a good time over here 😎

my existential dread is alleviated greatly by knowing you're hard at work arming our squirrel allies for the coming revolution 🤝

Almost forgot I also did a cheeky little video shoot for tiny Gul'dan just in case I never get around to finishing him and / or accidentally knock him off the shelf while in a epoxy resin fueled panic 😅

#blizzard #orcs #worldofwarcraft #warcraft #monsters #sculpture #games #WoW

This old sketch sculpt of Gul'dan (World of Warcraft) I did a few years ago just came back home after a long stay at a buddys office being used as a photogrammetry model.

Should I set aside some time this year to actually finish this thing?😄
#sculpture #blizzard #fanart #art #worldofwarcraft #clay