Each CAMIE is a beautiful bronze casting from an original sculpture of a lovely and modest young woman we named CAMIE to represent Character And Morality In Entertainment.

A CAMIE is the highest recognition in the world for an entertaining and uplifting motion picture without offensive content. This lovely new CAMIE was sculptured especially for this award by Raymond Gibby.

Each CAMIE is then created from the original sculpture, using the time-consuming method of lost-wax casting at Baer Bronze Fine Art Castings. The process begins with a mold made of rubber and plaster from the original clay sculpture. The next step is to pour hot wax into this mold to form a wax replica. When cooled, the wax replica is removed from the mold and the seams and flaws are inspected and meticulously repaired. The wax is then carefully coated with granules of ceramic—making a shell nine layers thick at the slow rate of two coatings a day.

Then the completed shell is heated until the wax melts and is poured out. With the wax removed, the shell is now a mold into which molten bronze can be poured. The shell is then heated to 1600° F. to harden the ceramic before it is filled with molten bronze at a temperature of 2000° degree F. The bronze fills all the spaces in the shell where the wax had been, making the bronze casting an almost exact replica of the wax, which was almost an exact replica of the original sculpture.

After the casting cools, the shell is cracked and removed from the bronze casting, making it ready for inspection and metal finishing to meet the artistic standards of the original. Finally, the almost finished casting is heated and chemicals applied by a patina artist, giving each bronze CAMIE its own distinctively rich color.

Each individual bronze CAMIE takes weeks of meticulous hand crafting to create, making it one of the most treasured pieces of art that would be possible to create as an expression of honor and appreciation to those who create the very best motion pictures and television shows reflecting Character And Morality In Entertainment.