Stop Motion Puppet Designs

Rightio! I have decided to make a stop-motion armature for my negotiated brief project, and hopefully have a go at animating a couple of short tests of the finished puppet, wahay! I will spend the next few weeks building an armature skeleton out of balsa wood, aluminium wire and possibly some fimo if I'm feeling daring! Me, Sash and Paddy are gonna split a big bundle of wire and wood, we have had a few problems trying to find the bloomin stuff but I've managed to get some balsa wood off sarah crombie and sash has found a good website to order the wire. Here are a few designs of my planned armature and puppet, they will pmost likely end up looking completely different because I haven't made one before and will probably be pretty shoddy at first! :S But I shall give it a go :)

Procrastination... we meet again

Eeeep I'm not sure where to start with any of the projects at the mo and seem to be spending most of my time finding silly things to do to avoid work, like washing up all the mugs in the house, re-reading all my magazine, painting polar bears... :P

stop-motion shenanigans!

We are now in our 3rd term.... eeeeep!! Cant believe how quick this year is going, tis a bit scary! But Im getting excited about our negotiated breif this term, we pretty much get to explore whatever we want so I've decided to have a go at stop-motion seeing as I have spend the last few months working on the 3rd year stop-motion film 'The Musician,' and its something I've always wanted to get into. Im kinda nervous about it because my past attempts at stop-motion have been a bit of a disastor, but we have a tutorial with Ann tomorrow so hopefully I'll pick up some handy tips :) I've been playing around with plastecine today, here is a little character I made that I may use to practise some basic animated movements (he's called Ernie, he says hi)

Life Drawing 5/5/11

Here are my latest naked creations, they are a bit on the dark side but I like the brown paper/ chalk combo :)

Final set: done and dusted!

Helloooooo! Well the easter holidays have come to an end and we have had lots of lit reviews, film analising and choccie eggs to get stuck into. I have also finally finished dressing the last set for the 3rd year project 'The Musician,' hurrah! Here are some piccies of my progression on the set, woop :D

3rd year project update!

Ooo eck I should have put these piccies up quite a while ago, yet another slap on the wrist for me! :S Here are some piccies of the latest set I've been working on for the 3rd year stop motion project 'The Musician,' it took me about a week to complete and I'm pretty happy with the results :) As with the last set, I added sections of cardboard to add 3d window panes, and mapped out what I was going to paint. I then added acrylic colour to it and added final detail using lots of different sized fineliners and also special textured paper for the roof tiles to make the buildings look more realistic. It was quite awkward to paint because there are so many angles and I had to lean pretty far to paint some bits which nearly resulted in me falling and squishing the poor thing on a number of occasions! But I managed to complete it, hurrah! Here are some piccies showing my progression :)

actual final cinematography video!

I have found a full version of our cinematography video at last! here it is :)