some days everything just goes wrong ..............

( i should have taken heed when my cake was burnt on the outside and raw on the inside )

seriously..... erghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh........ 

starts off ok.... until........ oooo no poverino ....

ear falls off ....plink...

antlers

..weirdly more difficult today than the little hands were ....?

 

shell casing head of clay...

can she get  any more ugly ?

 

 it appears so ....

yes

!

 

                                          errrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh
                                          back to the drawing board ......................

                       !!!!!!*/////§°çç°§:§ç§°§°§°ç : MN;HGFGHSsgraaaaaaaaaach!!!!!!!!!!!

songs in the key ... part 2

so,
...where were we ........?

ah yes ........music clip,
"songs in the key." ..........puppet construction with eyeballs that are moveable within a very tiny constricted set with a big hairstyle over the open head surgery part....

first test: - solid clay head 

character :

female

insecty

victorian

big bug eyes

mid 20s-ish

sweet

creepy

threadbare

 

 

 

and so if anyone has any fantastic ideas about workable eyelids at this stage ...feel free to ...let me know ..!!!!!!!!

the little hands were weird...as I was making them they were wrapping creepily around my finger .... odd little life-signs coming out of cold wet clay.............................................................

now ...armature for the body ... proportions ... to head size .... I want the head quite big like a child's head is,    ... too big for the body ... a kind of innocence of character...

the wire is an aluminium armature stop motion wire from the UK, specifically designed for animation ... twisted to add strength with brass jointings that are tensioned for ample but restricted movement in tiny increments over a long period of time ...

the feet have joints and points for nut and bolt "tie offs" on the set so the puppet doesnt fall over from shot to shot .....

......

armature running off to Ingermaaike in Norway for a victorian felted body encasement ....

ahhhhhhhhhhh.............. if only it were that simple ............

:D

songs in the key...

having agreed to make a short film /music clip

and having decided to shoot it in stop-motion animation

and having realised today that I am already 2 months into the project and not one frame has been shot .....

...I thought it high time to mention what is going on...

to a stills photographer 2 months pre-production time sounds insanely long ...

for film it appears years are needed  ... I have 4 months more
before finished product must be visible
tick tick tick ...tick.....tick...tick  tick tickticktick...

(pick yourself up off the floor Mr Failsafe!)

*first step listen to the song a million times and read the lyrics

*second step interpret story - make alot of notes and scribbles for producer to make weird comments about ..try and understand that my weird scribbles don't translate to someone outside my brain

*third step design character - make a lot of sketches

*fourth step realise that you have to work out how to construct an entire workable puppet head from scratch, with moving eyes and eyelids that you can get to in the back of her head in a small set and move in tiny increments during a very long period of time...that wont fall apart during 4 months of filming

hmmmmmmmmmmm

well at least I have her eyeballs so far