1st post FMP Develpment

what follows are several images from my final major project for year 3:

Various pictures of either works in progress shots, ideas and even a few things that didn't even make it into the final film but were all important aspects to work through.

Image 1 from our giant white board wrote a job list for year 3 work

Image 2 broke the story into 3 main acts and noted how long each shot would take etc.

A selection of sculpting tools I used for making the puppet sculpture (see later vid) includes detal tools, clippers, rubber tipped colour shapers and ribbon tools for shaping the material known as....

Super Sculpey beige! image if the front of the box.

the box open. 1b in weight. exelent for detail sculpts...

very maliable, here is an image of a small piece squished between my fingers. Almost skin like in some ways it is one of the best materials I have found as a model maker. 

Sculpey was used to make these toadstools for the set. I made 20 of these. Here are some examples.

Closer detail on a hand made, hardened and painted toad stool. Painted with Citadel acrylic and washes to be used on the stop motion set.

Basic bead eyes before paint. I kept my hand in to show size comparison. Same with the Toad stool above.

Spare Stop-motion wire hands for a stop motion puppet. Shrink wrap protection on the fingers.

Kneadatite basic mask pre-paint that wasnt used for the Puppet. In the story I had this whole section that the character removes this mask but I took it out of the story as I needed to simplify so much.

Model of a letter opener sword to be used as part of the set in the woodland scene

Image 2 handle detail.

20 Hand press moulds super sculpey heads ready for turning into indarvidual expressions.

Most of them still in there blank expression.

Image of 6 sets of eyes painted and ready for assemblage with a basic face and nail to show scale.

sculpey marquette original character sculpt in bust form to find the character next to a 3D print using up to date technology using the 3D printer at collage and the know how of Steve Gibbs...

Another angle. video to follow later.

A coil of animation wire. very useful, ply-able and has multiple uses for models and animation puppets.

Some images of stop-motion puppet parts and thread lock glue used for creating Armatures image1

and image 2

Face press moulds using Siligum which is just like Dentist alginate used for casting teeth. these saved allot of time.

They also have a lot of re-use ability.

Snaps of test faces 1

and 2. painted and un painted.

For a while I thought I would go with this face and paint job but after closer inspection the colour seems too forced. she looks more like a Geisha and not like the young Nymph I had in my imagination... So a colour is still being formulated that is alot more natural.

Here is an eye test... I ultimately went with option 1 (the left eye) as it is more striking.

this face although I like it looks like the shade of bogies. The colour isn't right yet. more research needed.

Dark green too intence next to a basic un-painted face which I included stop-motion eyes that came with the rest of the parts. the white and green eyes were very good but wernt what I was looking for, A little too Wallace and Gromit and not enough mysticism.

Two cracked re ject faces that didnt make it, but they just look cool...

Here is a sleeping stop motion armature that I made from animation wire. It was hardly used as I only posed it a couple of times before I made the one that Ill be going with (the pro ball and socket one)

Reject faces shown in my presentation the aim was to....

Magertise! this took quite a bit of thought in cutting the right sized hole in a 3D printed back of the head and using a magnetic badge back which was secured in place with eye brackets (note the blu tack) and the face has two strips of metal from paper clips that once baked to the sculpt become permanent and are magnetic to hold the face in place during production. 

Back and front of head united and magnetised just like Laika's Rapid proto typing method but more hand made. next to a 3D printed back of head.