teapot monster

Here’s a still from a really short animation (we’re talking 10 seconds short!) I did the other weekend for an online contest which alas, I didn’t win. I had good fun making it though! I won’t put the clip up yet as I want to fix the export settings because it didn’t come out quite right. But I will put it up here when I do.

Here’s a screenshot from my new stop motion short, The Princess and the Peas. It’s not online just yet as I think it needs some sort of musical soundtrack, so I’ve sent it to my dad to see what he can come up with. In the meantime here is Penny looking none-too-thilled about having to eat peas for dinner. As you can see, the film is 1 min 45 seconds in length so just a tiny bit longer than my last one! 

A screenshot from my animation which is nearly finished! I’ve 14 shots done and another 3 or 4 still to do. I’m using Dragon Stop Motion software which is brilliant. 

I’ve started shooting on the main set and it is sloooooow going! Lousy part-time job is sucking up my precious animation time. Hopefully I’ll get it all done in time for my deadline.  *fingers crossed*

Started shooting my stop-motion short the other day. I have about 25 seconds of animation so far and maybe another minute or so left to do. Pretty pleased with how it’s turning out so far :)

I’ve been hand painting peas today. Planning to start shooting tomorrow :)

I made some miniature bunting for the bedroom set today with some origami paper I forgot I had. 

The main set is starting to come together. All that’s left to do is put up some curtains and make some posters and toys to scatter around so it’s not so empty looking.

Stop-motion puppet I’m working on at the moment for a personal project. I’m making a short animation for my portfolio. Her head is Super Sculpey, hands are dipped latex, body is aluminium wire with milliput for bone areas. There’s also wire in the ears of her bunny slippers so I can animate them when she’s walking (depending how ambitious I’m feeling for the shot).

This is her second head because the first one I made was rubbish and her second pair of eyes because I forgot to prime the first ones so the paint started peeling off, which is a shame as I liked the old eyes better. Ah well!! 

I just need to make eyebrows and some mouths for her and she’s done.