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                    Spring 2003 brought me to Stop Motion I.  

This chronicles the final project of that class, a 30 second animation of an original character.  

Behold:                     

Different ideas for my character's head.  I went with the bottom left head.

 

 

The Character sheet for my old man.  

Obviously the design needs a lot of work at this point.

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The maquette has an aluminum wire and pro poxy armature, with sculpy    on top of that.                    ;      

I used a little cinefoil as backing on the tie.

I was very pleased with the way some of the wrinkles in the coat turned out. 

I spent the better part of a week sculpting this maquette to closely match the turnaround drawings I made (with a few improvements)


 

 

 

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Here's the finished maquette. 

 I added a few details to the shoes and tweaked the sculpting in some areas before painting with artist's acrylic.

 

 

 

 


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Here's the clay puppet after filming. 

 I found that the maquette didn't look near old enough and that in clay, the legs were too weak at the ankle.                     So after hurriedly sculpting him in a few hours, I hurriedly shot the animation in just three hours. 

                                        After getting chucked around so much, the puppet is pretty beat up, as you can see here, and much of the original sculpted detail is gone. 

But you know what? I think this clay guy seems much more believable than the maquette.

 

 

 

 

 

And now the Good Stuff:

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Here is a tiny preview of the finished animation. 

Alas, no sound and Lillipution quality, but it is the fruit of my labors. 

 

 

The full version of the animation has song "Cataract" by Sparta.

 

Click HERE for a larger version (no sound)

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