My new website

Hello!


If you're stumbling across my blog for the first time, I'd like to take this opportunity to divert your attention to my new website!  It features new personal projects, as well as costume illustrations from the feature film, McFarland, USA.   Also, stay tuned for costumes from the television series, Revenge.  Enjoy!

www.imogeneannkilar.com

My Day Job

For those of you who don't know, over the last year and a half I have been working full time as a clay design modeler for Honda R&D Americas.  I sculpt quarter scale, half scale, and mostly full scale models of Honda and Acura automobiles out of clay for design purposes.  I included some images below to give you a better idea! Please note that none of these images are of projects I have personally worked on, but are here to give you a general idea of what I do on a daily basis.  Enjoy!

News Flash!

Hey everybody!  I thought I would make it 'blog official' and announce that I got married! (over a year ago, haha)  So in case you see me around the web i.e. resume, facebook etc., with a different last name, that's why! I'm slowly but surely transitioning from Imogene Chayes to Imogene Ann Kilar.

Cheers!

Project Update

A little while back I posted a group of sketches from a personal project, my version of the Fox Force Five as told by Uma Thurman's character Mia Wallace in the film Pulp Fiction. (see below).  I have taken two of them to completion! And having some fun with the 'casting' while I'm at it :)

Some pre-production work on an un-named sci-fi movie

Over the last couple of months I've had the pleasure of doing quite a bit of pre-production design work on a sci-fi film that, unfortunately, has since shut down.  But the good news is I got to keep the rights to my designs, which means I get to show them all to you!  I did everything from costume illustration, to creature design, to sculpting.  Enjoy!

Hero costume illustration for the would be star of this film, Gina Carano.  Costumes designed by my very good friend, Helena Falangus.

Alien design:

Refinement:

Hand design:

Male version:

Female full body design:

Full body with costume designed by Helena Falangus:

Alien sculpt out of medium chavant clay:

And here's a BONUS!  I recently started learning the 3D software Modo, and decided to give this guy a shot for my first ever digital model.

New Sculpture Preview

...Well, not exactly new.  This is a male anatomy study I started last summer.  I got it to about 80% in a couple of weeks, but alas it has been frozen at that stage since then.  I will finish it as soon as possible and post more photos accordingly.

Humanoid Creature Concept

Here is a (unintentionally Avatar-esque) creature designer I did for a class I took taught by Jerad Marantz.

Last Vegas

I illustrated this costume for the film Last Vegas, starring Robert De Niro, Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman, and Kevin Kline.  Costumes designed be Dayna Pink.

Finished Sculpture!

Here she is!  The final product of my very first clay model.