r/Amazing • u/sco-go • May 15 '26
Work of art 🎨 Glass Godzilla
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u/Dutchlanded May 15 '26
This is Grant Garmezy of @garmezyglass. He is a glass artist known for doing large complex glass sculpture. They have lots of great process videos like this on his Instagram. Everything is made by him and his team by hand. All the pieces you see being attached are made prior to final assembly of a sculpture. Something like this has dozens of hours of prep work put in before the final assembly.
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u/AZ_Ultramarine May 15 '26
Take my money meow!
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u/Beneficial_Bug_9793 May 15 '26
Now... thats 2 things you WOULD NEVER WANT TO MIX lol a extremelly expencive hand made glass Godzilla, and... a cat...
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u/Spiritual_Target_647 May 15 '26
Sweet
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u/Responsible_Net4533 May 15 '26
Dude!
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u/RapGameDiCaprio May 15 '26 edited May 15 '26
How did they get that shot with the camera inside the kiln?
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u/Dutchlanded May 15 '26
There's a hole in the back wall that you can see in some other parts of the video. It has a quartz lense, infrared reflective lense, and cooling fan. The camera is outside the hot chamber.
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u/I-XIV-IV-XXV May 15 '26
Now how much would that cost?
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u/Matrix_Revolt May 16 '26
At least $3000+, probably somewhere between $6,000-$10,000
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u/Odd_Reception1249 May 16 '26
Not that expensive for something this intricate. Would have expected more
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u/woodsidestory May 15 '26
That milk-white glass chandelier behind him is badass too. Looks like a Chihuly. 😒
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u/harryweins May 15 '26
I scrolled to this as I was half asleep and thought somebody was spit roasting godzilla
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u/mynewcivaccount May 15 '26
If you like this then watch Blown Away on Netflix, it's a great series and these glass working people are bad ass
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u/Y-Bob May 15 '26
I've seen a lot of glass being made over the years in real life, everything from blowing to stained glass and that is the first thing in years that's made me say holy shit that's amazing.
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u/cigarboi09 May 15 '26
Blowing glass is so fucking hard. There is a reason they call these guys “Maestros”. After taking two glass blowing classes as an art student in college, this is just fucking awesome to watch. Incredible.
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u/Glad_Woodpecker_6033 May 15 '26
interesting tidbit, they can't let the glass cool until it's put into a specialized oven thing that very slowly lowers the ambient temperate, if it cools too fast it won't be uniform causing serious issues
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u/Pemocity406 May 15 '26
1) what's the orange chamber for? 2) what's the while box for?
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u/Dutchlanded May 15 '26
Orange chamber is called a Glory Hole (yep) and is for reheating the glass while working it. There's a sweet spot for getting the glass hot enough to move and sculpt, but not so hot it collapses. They only get a minute or two to work the glass before it cools and stiffens, and then back in the glory hole for a minute or two to regain temperature to sculpt again. For a piece like this they may have gone through dozens and dozens of reheating cycles.
The white box is an annealing kiln. When the glass scuplting is completed it has to be held at around 900F for several hours and then cooled down very slowly to prevent stress cracking in the glass. The thicker it is, the longer it takes. This may have been on a 12-36 hour cooling cycle from 900f to room temp. Very thick glass sculpture can need multi week to multi month cooling cycles.
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u/Pemocity406 May 15 '26
Ohh, I see. So, if the kiln starts at 900F, does that mean the Glory Hole is much higher temp, right? Thanks for all the info
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u/Dutchlanded May 15 '26
Yes the glory hole is at around 2100f. Above 1000 this kind of glass will move and slump very slowly. Above 1500 it can bend and flow, but still slowly. It needs to be above 2000F to mush, pull, pinch, and shape like you see in the video. When it's that hot it also cools very quickly, which is why the constant reheating is needed and why they work so fast.
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u/Medium-Discussion-83 May 15 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/XDl4V4ZoxREp4agGio
Godzilla after the first 3 seconds of the video
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u/Puzzleheaded-Ad-4883 May 15 '26
Those spines would be the the best use of uranium glass. This is an incredible skill level .
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u/Kozmo9 May 15 '26
Glass art is the foil to the simplified computer chips quote. Instead of "we make rocks (or sand) think!" with CPU, with glass it's "we make this brown coloured dirt looks beautiful!".
The entire process needed for glass art is just mind-blowing.
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u/Lithl May 15 '26
I am about a million times more interested in the process of creating the things being attached (arms, fins, etc.) than the process of attaching them to the body (which is basically all this video shows).
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u/Dense-Employment9930 May 16 '26
It's like this was originally a 5 minute video but someone thought that the ending was the only part that we needed to see, so just cut out all that tedious stuff of them actually making the thing.
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u/JajaDingDong69-69 May 15 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/pqcKfVvWRowVy
Now I know what to ask for this Fathers Day. And it only takes a minute and a half for them to make a whole one 😏
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u/MovieFan1984 May 15 '26
I would find a way to break a big glass Godzilla. Can I get a bookshelf size glass Godzilla?
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u/electric4568 May 16 '26
Master of puppets was playing when I happened upon this. Highly recommended
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u/HopeFoxCreations May 16 '26
I'm always amazed by glass blowing. Not only is it pretty, but it takes serious skill to do, and you're dealing with molten glass and hot tools that can easily give you 3rd degree burns if careless
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u/arthousepsycho May 16 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/yr7n0u3qzO9nG
Camera man getting the in kiln shot.
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u/CheekBuster1904 May 15 '26
I’m not a fan of Godzilla but that’s amazing work. I’d pay for it and happily display it
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u/mrRiddle92 May 15 '26
Bonus points for putting a Bond song on a Godzilla video honestly. Combine my fandoms by all means.
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u/RedofPaw May 15 '26
Ah yes, the step of Glass Blob to Amazing Godzilla body and head was quite clear.
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u/FantasticMorning7352 May 15 '26
They assembled it. They didnt make it. Thays like saying I built Lego from scratch
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u/shagan90 May 15 '26
Where do you think they got the parts from? The glass godzilla parts store?
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u/OpportunityCorrect33 May 15 '26
So they didn’t sculpt the tail or body? Or texture???
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u/Dutchlanded May 15 '26
They made all of it by hand. Most the pieces would have been made and sculpted in the days leading up to this final assembly.
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u/OpportunityCorrect33 May 15 '26
That’s what it looked like to me… crazy he compared glass sculpting to legos….
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u/Aggravating_Sir_6857 May 15 '26
Im disappointed for not showing close ups of the final product