Return of the Stupid Sock Creatures!: Evolutions, Mutations, and Other Creations

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In 2014, he released an album titled Anonymous Rejected Filmscore [1] that had been, as the title suggests, composed for a film whose studio head had rejected for being too 'weird'. [2] [3] Murphy promised the director that he wouldn't name the film. The score was allowed to develop in directions unconstrained by the original film's narrative [3] and the cover art is a photograph of Murphy's son, taken by his wife through her sunglasses. [3]

FPG: With your training in ceramics and illustration, what brought you to try your hand at textile/knit construction? These make fun and unique gifts for everybody…especially for children’s gifts, but I think anybody who receives one of these will go bonkers over them like I have. I played with stuffed toys as a kid when most other boys preferred toy cars or weapons or action figures. Since then I’ve been drawn to anything that can be personified or imbued with personalities. My earliest influence was a stuffed bear my mother made from a kit when I was three. I still have that bear on display. I used to make him talk and carry him everywhere with me. I’m drawn these days to such media as comic books, animated features, claymation, British comedies and the work of voice actors. I started sculpting monsters in college rather than literal animals because it bothered me how tightly people clung to the usual and the expected. Artists like Picasso, Tim Burton, Dr. Seuss, Roxanne Swentzel, Bernini and Chris Bachalo are among those who have influenced me the most. Urban” art and fashion is very popular in our culture, even in places that are largely rural. It seems few people, especially youngsters, want to cultivate or honorpleasingelements that represent a more rural surrounding. In 2019 he scored "Les Miserables" for the BBC, and in 2020, he composed the score for James Gunn's The Suicide Squad.

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So basically, I think that this book is better for someone who has at least a little bit of hand-sewing knowledge, or who is comfortable "winging it" at certain points. AND, since these creatures are so bizzare, the COOLest thing is that you CAN wing it, make some weird mistakes (like sew the legs on at a strange angle) and the creature will still be AWEsome!

FPG: As well as being an accomplished artist and creator, you are a youth counselor. Do you have any advice to young artists wishing to follow in your creative footsteps? This book not only presents new techniques and projects, but also takes advantage of the advances that the author has made in diagramming and explaining monster construction. The basics section includes some amazing techniques for creating monster hands, mouths and eyes that I wish that I had known about sooner.