SFX: Monkey King
Character design/Sculpture/Mould Making/Silicone Bust Making,etc
Study Block 1 Project in Falmouth University & Gorton Studio MA Course
Individual SFX Project
Character Designer: Ting Zhao
Technical Supervisors: Neill Gorton, Bradly Greenwood
The theme of this project is to make the mammalian mask. I decided to make a Monkey
King is also known well as Sun Wukong because he is a classic mythological character who
already has many different visions in a lot of films, TV shows, games, animations, and other
artworks. Those works are very vivid, but most of them in film and television works were
designed to be more human. Such as they have human faces with long monkey fur, they
have human ears, and they have human expressions. I have thought why not make a monkey
king which reserves more monkey features? I started to search for more references for mood
boards to design my monkey king. Monkey King is one of the main characters in the Novel
Journey to the West ”, in the book tells all the different stages for the Monkey King’s whole
life. Finally I decided to make a monkey king which looks wilder and more original for the
phase after becoming Xuanzang ’s Disciple and another one is more villain and darkened for
the p hase rebellion in Heaven
