Stop-Mo

my attemts at lip-sync were hindered by hot lights and melting plastercine which became very shiny. my original plan was to replace pre made mouth parts as different sounds are created, this was impossible due to the sticky plastercine losing its original shape. the results are very rough , next step is to recreate the whole face and seperate jaw using fimo. plastercine can be used to smooth out the join but thats all. Moving the armature itself was a bit better but I still need lots of practice before anything descent will happen.

the start of everything

Summer 08

This Summer I had an opportunity to produce some story-boards for a short educational animation on how Tin is formed. Starting with the Big bang and including proto-planetary solar systems, the Earth cooling and continents colliding. The trick, I found was to create a flow to the direction moving from one point to the other as the narration dictates. Once this was done colour keys and a bit of concept work was required for the clock. These will hopefully act as a guide and give an idea as to what it all should look like, drawing squiggely lines for the storyboard is fine, but more info is required for a decent animatic.