Thor and the Midgard Serpent's armature fabricated to hold the battle pose

This image exhibits Thor restraining the Midgard Serpent by the cranium fin/wing. The pose is a fairly accurate; however, I may alter it after I had time to digest the stance.

The rear view… Thor’s hand will be revised once I figure out what he will actually be holding on to.

The Midgard Serpent’s head fins will be adapted to flow with the action.

The Midgard Serpent’s body will undertake the clay up within the next few days.

The Midgard Serpent is large enough to consume poor Thor… LOL…. (moremagic/Mike) one of my ustream.tv viewers declared that the composition is making it look like Thor is the villain.

My wife is taking pleasure in the serpent’s disposition.

Here you can see the green garden hose, which will be covered in clay soon.

Thor 3D movie scheduled for release on May 4, 2011

Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Anthony Hopkins as Odin and Tom Hiddleston as Loki from director Kenneth Branagh's upcoming "Thor" adaptation.

Midgard Serpent head fin wings

The Midgard Serpent gets wings.... hmmm sounds like a red-bull ad...

The head wings/fins or whatever they are called were fabricated using 1/8" aluminum wire, cotton shirt; wood glue. To learn the process, you will have to tune in to my live-broadcast. Currently working on the Thor God of Thunder and The Midgard Serpent.

Here is a birds-eye view of the Midgard Serpents head. The fins/wings have been dry fitted before the clay is applied.

I am thinking of having Thor take hold of the Serpent’s left fin-wing. This way it looks like Thor is able to control the serpent by means of a sensitive part of the serpent’s anatomy. It would comparable to restraining someone via an ear. Try it; it’s painful.

The fin-wings will be modified to better streamline the look and feel of the composition.

I have not quite determined which way to point the head fin-wing.

Be patient my friends, the piece will improve over the next few days, for right now it is still in its rough phase.

Thanks for viewing...

Midgard Serpent begins to take shape

The Midgard Serpent third day of progress begins to give the serpent character

As you can notice the head appearance is now beginning to get that ferocious pissed off expression; therefore, I think Thor may be in trouble.

The nostrils were enlarged in order to give the beast a facial expression of being battle beaten.

The hand on the Midgard Serpent's head is the hand for the Thor model. I will make the hand part of the head; later the wrist section will be welded to the Thor lower end of the forearm once the composition is in the metal stage. The hand is still very sketchy and will need many more hours of detailing.

Midgard Serpent sculpture update

Today I spent time modeling the Midgard Serpent's head. It was broadcast on http://www.ustream.tv/channel/tutorial%3A-how-to-sculpt-in-clay---artistsculptor from noon to about 6:30 PM PST.

It looks like Leonard my apprentice recieved a fright from the serpent. Leonard is the little guy wearing the beret.

The head needs several more passes in order to capture the correct somewhat likeness of a moray eel. Right now I am not sure if I will add fins/wings to the head area. However, Brozar a regular viewers thinks I should.

The eyes pictured are temporary until I insert the clay eyeballs. Since I want the Midgard Serpent staring at Thor, I will create the iris and pupil with a highlight.

The teeth at this point seem a bit too small; therefore, I will add length to them.

History of the Midgard Serpent

The Midgard Serpent, Midgarðsormur, or World Serpent, is, in Norse mythology, a sea serpent, and the middle child of the giantess Angrboða and the god Loki. According to the Prose Edda, Odin took Loki's three children, Fenrisúlfr, Hel and Jörmungandr, and tossed Jörmungandr into the great ocean that encircles Midgard. The serpent grew so large that he was able to surround the Earth and grasp his own tail. When he lets go the world will end. As a result he earned the alternate name of the Midgard Serpent or World Serpent. Jörmungandr's archenemy is the God Thor.

Here is my armature for the Midgard Serpent. The clay model will measure roughly 11 feet, head to tail. Since Thor is sculpted in 1/2 scale, this would make the Midgard Serpent roughly 22 feet.

The armature consists of a waterholes I cut into segments. Next I inserted a 10 foot, 1/4 inch diameter aluminum rod to aid in the coiled pose. I double up on the rod for the first three feet to help support the weight of the head. The hole was then wrapped with bubble wrap in order to give it the correct girth. In the next step, clay will be brushed on the bubble wrap.


The Midgard Serpent's armature consists of styrofoam in order to ease on the weight of the clay. This image depicts the first layer of clay I brushed on.


I will be using the moray eel as a reference, since it is the closest creature to a sea-serpent I can think of.

Who is Thor - God of Thunder

Whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of...
THOR - GOD OF THUNDER

Thor is the red-haired and bearded god of thunder in Germanic mythology and Germanic paganism, and its subsets: Norse paganism, Anglo-Saxon paganism and Continental Germanic paganism.

Most surviving stories relating to Germanic mythology either mention Thor or focus on Thor's exploits. Thor was a much revered god of the ancient Germanic peoples from at least the earliest surviving written accounts of the indigenous Germanic tribes to over a thousand years later in the late Viking Age.

Thor was appealed to for protection on numerous objects found from various Germanic tribes. Miniature replicas of Mjöllnir, the weapon of Thor, became a defiant symbol of Norse paganism during the Christianization of Scandinavia.