Tutankhamun: Allies & Enemies

-

Christian

I received an email from Dr. Andrew Nelson and he had this incredible message that are you interested in doing a new project and it's a major important individual. And so I was interested and then the reply email was it's King Tut and I was on board. I'm Christian Corbet, I'm a sculptor. For anybody to think of King Tut having come here thousands of years later in his own magical way is to me just an affirmation that miracles do happen. Finally we meet, King Tut. So, I've been creating creative works of art for over 26 years. This one is a fine example of his Royal Highness, the late prince Philip but for now my heart and eyes are fully set on creating a forensic facial reconstruction of King Tut, where it'll go forensic first, then it'll go creative. So this is my sculpting studio and I'm gonna show you a few things with respect to what I do in order to create the forensic facial reconstruction. First step's going to be, landing tissue markers. There are tissue marker charts that you use in order to find out the measurements and where they're supposed to go. And then we slowly build up muscle by muscle. (gentle music) The point of the camera's to take as many pictures as possible of all the stages. So the next stage is finding the spots where we are going to be placing tissue markers. Well, here we are a couple weeks into the forensic facial reconstruction of King Tutankhamun, this is the very early stage. A lot of people think of King Tut as the sort of the golden mask image and it's almost idealized with the bright colors and the perfect features but here we have something completely different. And the creating part of it is, how do I depict Tut after the forensic stage. Do I make him smile? Do I make him frown? Do I make him look worried, concerned? I really want King Tut to come to life in a completely new and exciting way. And, who knows, perhaps create maybe the most definitive look of one of the most famous kings of all time.