Sonntag, 7. Februar 2010
Another Two Puppets Finished: Cerberus and Hermes
A week can be very short.
Last sunday I announced to finish the silhouette concept of Hermes, his scale drawing and his armature. These public deadlines work great for me and I finished it all. So big thanks to Shelley Noble on whose blog we evolved the idea of adding some external pressure to our productions .
This week's achievements: the finished Hermes silhouette puppet. It wasn't much more work to finish it completely.
Since I also work in schools and museums, I had just a minimum of time to work on the film the last days. I don't know how I managed to be in schedule, but I did it.
Actually, I even finished some more things I didn't announce: I assembled the Cerberus silhouette puppet, too, and I did some more research for the house's interieur, its furnitures and details.
Heck, I'm too tired to tell you all the details, but the process is always the same with the silhouette puppet making:
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brainstorm
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find references
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make concept drawings
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vectorize concept drawing
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assemble (paper) prototype
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correct vector drawings if necessary
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make scale drawings
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build aluminium wire armature with bones made of milliput
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cut out single pieces from black cardboard
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glue cardboard to armature
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spraypaint black from behind
The illustration above was absolutely a happy accident: when I spraypainted the puppet's back, I laid it on a sheet of paper to avoid stains on the floor. I really love the result, and that's why it made its way directly to another mood board...
Those are my finished puppets so far. I'm still surprised but pleased how well they look together...
For next week, I'm going to work on Charon's silhouette character. I have to design his silhouette concept, a scale drawing and his armature... It's pretty much a routine workflow now...
Kommentare
michael schrieb am Sonntag, 7. Februar 2010 um 23:35 Uhr:
The last picture with Kerberos slightly moving out of the depht of field is giving a very nice impression of what I see is capable with two.dimensional figures in a three dimensional world. Very good looking !
Nils schrieb am Montag, 8. Februar 2010 um 00:43 Uhr:
Pretty nice effect in the spraypaint picture. I think, this would be a great idea for a disturbing pixilation kind of animation sequence in hell.
Jessica Koppe schrieb am Montag, 8. Februar 2010 um 21:09 Uhr:
Hi guys, thanks!
Michael, you've named it. That's exactly the look I was after and I'm quite happy that it seems to work.
Nils, I've got so many ideas... I really hope that'll come together to a great project in the end...
Shelley Noble schrieb am Dienstag, 9. Februar 2010 um 00:09 Uhr:
Oh.
My.
God.
!
JESSICA!!!!!
You are AMAZING!!!
This is SPECTACULAR WORK!
You are in some kind of genius flow!
Congratulations!!
I've got chills looking at what you've achieved this week! And that overspray piece is unbelievably fantastic! Holy cow!
My ass is fully kicked yet again.
I have again not completed my task! And am again inspired by your successes to PUSH ON and get it done tonight!
Whoop!
Yaz schrieb am Dienstag, 9. Februar 2010 um 01:51 Uhr:
Jessica, these are looking AMAZING!!! I love the picture at the bottom where all three are together. Great work!
Jessica Koppe schrieb am Dienstag, 9. Februar 2010 um 07:51 Uhr:
Hey girls,
two times the word amazing in caps is a great start for my day today... Thank you!
Shelley, my genius flow made that I was tired as hell yesterday and that I thought I would never be able again to recover from that last week. But I did, so horay! And freshly back to work...
I must admit, I'm very ambitious to hit the deadlines which is good, at least for my production speed.
justin rasch schrieb am Freitag, 12. Februar 2010 um 01:35 Uhr:
LADY.....you are Rockin it!!!!!!!!!!
jriggity
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Lukas schrieb am Sonntag, 7. Februar 2010 um 20:55 Uhr:
Wow. That's just stunning!