Tuesday, 2. March 2010
Eureka: Finally First Furniture
It’s almost two weeks ago since I last posted about my film’s progress. Since then, I not only ordered new materials to continue the puppet making process finally, I also had another breakthrough in the design concept of the world of the living. That took me some time to develop since I wanted a papery look and feel here but didn’t really have clue how to achieve that.
I tested lots of different kind of papers to find something appealing and now I have a beautiful (and probably cheap) solution:
Orpheus’ bedside cabinet is approx. 73 mm high, 53 mm wide and 38 mm in depth. The scale of the puppets and the props is about 1:8 compared to human size.
The bedside cabinet above is a kind of general furniture prototype. Its basic shape is made of different cardboards (frozen pizza boxes, the back of a sketch pad, 2mm grey cardboard… just what I had around). I cut out the single elements and assembled them with wood glue. It dries transparently and is one of my favourite adhesives.
After that I covered each the door, the body and the top panel with bookbinding glue and sandwich paper. Yes, sandwich paper. After some tests I decided to use it because sandwich paper isn’t 100% opaque. It looks a bit feathery and has its own texture which suits well to the look I’d like to have in the house.
I also want some deeper shadows between the door and the cabinent’s body for example, so I added green watercolors and black ink. Ideally, you’d get a slight impression of a house in which nature is at home somehow.
The door knob is made of a pin needle with a tiny green ball attached to its end. I fixed a small bead between the needle’s head and the door and painted both bead and needle white with acrylics. The acrylics doesn’t stick to the plastic surface perfectly, so the green of the bead and the needle shines through which gives a nice and fitting effect. At the very end I simply drew the floral design on the door with a fineline pencil. This absolutely is the look I was after, so another problem is eventually solved.
Speaking of drawing, I also finished the boat’s (re-)design in which Orpheus is going to cross the river Styx and the interior’s design as well. I’ll post about the boat soon. Next step is to build the sets. I have one more month to go for preproduction... This week I’d like to finish most of the furnitures... But perhaps this is too ambitious...
Cheerleading, anyone?
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Jessica Koppe wrote on Wednesday, 3. March 2010 at 08:46:
Shelley, that's exactly the kind of support I need! ;)
Leo wrote on Friday, 5. March 2010 at 22:27:
cheerleading... nah (that would definitely hurt some eyes). But cheering seems OK to me :)
You are lucky to make that kind of continuous progress. Well, not only lucky, I know it takes a lot of discipline as well.
And as I know you can keep that pace: GOOOOO!
(btw, the Big Chief complained that "one theorem is not enough", which I get as he accepted my first theoretical stumblings as a theorem...)
Jessica Koppe wrote on Saturday, 6. March 2010 at 09:44:
Hey Leo! I'd love to see you cheerleading! :D Less progress this week: I'm exhausted again...
I took some tiny steps, but it feels like literally nothing. I did some test printing on sandwich paper and it absolutely is my favourite paper at the moment...
justin wrote on Monday, 8. March 2010 at 06:11:
it all looks great!
jriggity
Yaz wrote on Thursday, 1. April 2010 at 00:32:
Jessica, do you ever make bigger size of these furniture? I just imagine having a paper cabinet like this in our house.. It is like a painting, you know. A real piece of art. Congratulations!!!
Jessica Koppe wrote on Thursday, 1. April 2010 at 08:29:
Yaz, actually I was thinking about building life size things from cardboard. I had that idea in a different context, in another project... We'll see how things are going to develope, I've got two more storyboards and concepts in my drawer...
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Shelley Noble wrote on Tuesday, 2. March 2010 at 20:08:
Jessica, If you could hear my cheering over there you'd have to cover your ears!!! I'm screaming with enthusiasm over what you've done! My God!
The cabinet is sublime! A perfect world yet papery feel--brilliant!
And the sketches are stunning and exciting!
I could not be more excited by what you are doing!
GOGOGOGOGO GO!