Ok, a big hand to dave (n james) for th animatic, looks wicked, tho it was a shame we cudnt hav all got stuff in th final cut, i do think havin dave focus on it has helped it 2 look unified and entirely awesome.. Whilst on th subject of big hands; i thought ur big hand was great james; tho what did i kno?
Onto the set; those photos grace took look great, they really wowed me and it made all th work on trees n stuff seem worthwhile, and i kno it can look even better! The mini planks also look great dave, realistic lookin and cheap; good stuff, i might hav to get involved.. Simialarly th boat looks very much like a boat; jus what we need!
To hayley; that post was long; u hurt my brain, but im gona get revenge by tellin u a really long n borin story nex time i see u! And th nite sky outside my window has a kinda dull orangey pink glow, which diffuses into grey as it gets higher- not in fact black, tis one of th reasons i love cities...
Cool, so what hav i been doin? Panicing, fretting and general shilly shallying aside, ive been visitin hardware shops, doin trees(see graces pix) and general foliage, making puppets, trying to solve issues to do with th puppets and doin (finally) a bit of animatin with th puppets..
Old skool hardware shops r great, if u hav one nearby, go (its free 2 get in) and has a rare breed of shopkeeper(one who knows his business), worth it for th hard stares alone...
The trees i made using an ancient technique i got from an old white dwarf, scaled up, and i think they look great(wire wrapped round with bandages soaked in plaster), the bandages n plaster really kinda resemble bark when painted n lit rite... Leaves n foliage made out of trusty cartridge paper painted green- ok, but obviosly not quite as good as jamess bought stuff, which defnitly adds a good quality of realism...
The puppets hav been fun, from plan to drillin th wire to puttin th lil buggas together- and then watchin em grow foam muscles and plastacine arses...sniff...its been emotional..
On a technical note th slightly thicker of the two wires(we had) is best for th armatures(16mm i think..) and feet can b annoying.. I went first for wooden ones(solid enuff for screwin down), but these died on my first test. Ther gluin again now, but i dont think ther gona b as good as these ones i made from wire(see pic attached). What i like bout these ones is ther flexible and r movable in two parts like all good feet(see toe tapping man in vid attached).
Which brings me to th test vids; a walk, a walk cycle and a bit of a mess around to punish the puppet and see what mad positions u can make him do. What i got most from these vids(sorry ther a bit shaky and blurry- no tripod, used an eisel n frame blend was on..) was th need to fix positions for steps and to work in really small increments; there r quite a few more inbetweens needed.
Anyway, sorry for th long post, if u read it all, well done, let me kno what u think..if u skim read it; fair does i probly wudve too, let me kno what u think still.. Im excited bout 2moro, hope u all r 2, lets do this thang...big hugs....latas.
Ben
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