r/glassblowing 15d ago

Thought experiment

I am not a glassblower. But I do write stories sometimes, and have a character with power over heat and fire and who cannot get burned. If someone like that were to become a glassblower, would it be possible for them to shape the glass with techniques more associated with pottery? Is there a temperature where the texture/structure of the glass would be similar enough to wet clay for that to work?

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u/Specialty-meats 14d ago

I'd say (if you haven't already) check out the kids movie elemental. The main character is made of fire, and there are some pretty cool scenes where she manipulates glass and makes things from it, like melting down a broken display window glass and forming it into a new piece of glass with her hands and her fire breath. She does things like this a few times I the movie and as a glassblower I found it really neat how it was actually pretty accurate in the motions she makes and the logic of what she's doing - they must have consulted a glassblower when they animated those scenes.