The Sculptor

The Sculptor may refer to:

The Sculptor (film)

The Sculptor is one of the first Australian feature films to be filmed using the new Red One camera, (Red Digital Cinema Camera Company). The film is described as a Supernatural Thriller.

The Sculptor is about, "a struggling artist who immerses himself in black magic to further his career, but when he has everything he ever dreamed of, the demons come back to haunt his life, his work and his family." The Sculptor is directed by Australian Christopher Kenworthy, who co-wrote and co-produced with Chantal Bourgault. Filming took place in Perth, Australia during early 2008.

Prior to an online release in 2013 the film was rebadged as The Sculptor's Ritual.

The film was, ultimately, a complete flop.

The Technology

The Sculptor was shot with the Red One digital camera. Cinematographer Jason Thomas said, "The hype is to be believed. The workflow, resolution, weight, camera features and the rest are unmatched. Forget the whole Film vs Digital debate; this capture system is something again and more." Despite this, the camera was not well understood and the film was shot with blown highlights and other cinematography errors.

The Sculptor (comics)

The Sculptor is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Scott McCloud published in 2015. It tells of a David Smith whom Death gives 200 days to live in exchange for the power to sculpt anything he can imagine. Complications set in when David falls in love.

Summary

26-year-old New York-based artist David Smith is dealing with a difficult life—his family are dead, his patron has abandoned him, and he is broke—when Death greets him in the guise of a dead uncle. Death offers David the power to sculpt anything he wishes, at the cost of having only 200 days to live. David accepts, but comes to regret it when he falls in love with an actor named Meg.

Background

Scott McCloud built a reputation as a formalist in comics. He first brought attention to his work with the comic-book series Zot! (1984—1990). He rose to prominence in 1993 with Understanding Comics, a theoretical work on the comics medium executed in comics. He was an early pioneer of webcomics, a form whose formal boundaries he dedicated himself to pushing. In middle age he came to feel he had a "big, gaping hole in [his] résumé" in that he had built a large body of theoretical work but had not produced a substantial stand-alone work of fiction.The Sculptor was the first such work McCloud had published in twenty years.