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| ANIMATION |
| My animation Projects |
This page is dedicated to all things
animation. Most of what you will
find here will be Stop motion
animation information and projects.
What is Stop Motion Animation?
Stop motion Animation is the
technique of making a movie one
frame at a time with 3 dimensional
models. Some great example from
the past are the classic Holiday
special of Rankin/Bass. They
produced a number of great special
including "Rudolph the Red Nosed
Reindeer", "Santa Claus is coming
to town", "The year without a Santa
Claus" and many more. Dating even
further back there is the original
King Kong with its ground breaking
stop motion animation.
Stopmotionanimation.com is a great
resource for those wanting to learn
more about stop motion as well as
professional and amateur animators.
animation. Most of what you will
find here will be Stop motion
animation information and projects.
What is Stop Motion Animation?
Stop motion Animation is the
technique of making a movie one
frame at a time with 3 dimensional
models. Some great example from
the past are the classic Holiday
special of Rankin/Bass. They
produced a number of great special
including "Rudolph the Red Nosed
Reindeer", "Santa Claus is coming
to town", "The year without a Santa
Claus" and many more. Dating even
further back there is the original
King Kong with its ground breaking
stop motion animation.
Stopmotionanimation.com is a great
resource for those wanting to learn
more about stop motion as well as
professional and amateur animators.
The Link above will take you to my diary of creating a
stop motion character. This will be an on going project
and I will post items as they happen.
stop motion character. This will be an on going project
and I will post items as they happen.
| Buster as a Stop Motion Model (W.I.P.) |
I had decided I wanted to incorporate Buster
into the Project I am working on, so I started
sculpting. The medium I decided to try was
Super Sculpy. For me this has been difficult
to sculpt with. I typically use Roma clay and
the sculpy seems so soft and easily marred
or damaged. I am getting a little more
accustomed to it and have notgiven up,
however it is so different then oil based clays.
Here are a few pics of his progress so far. I
will be posting more as he goes. I also
decided to sculpt him without clothes. The
clothes will give a more tactile feeling if I
make them from material. It will also give me
experience in making clothing on such a
small scale. For the fur I had gone back and
forth over using flocking or trying to sculpt it
on. After much internal debate I decided to
go with sculpting the fur as this would prevent
the fur from "crawling" during animation. We
shall see if my decision was the right one.
LOL.
March 23rd 2006
The mold has been made and more pictures
added. As I had mentioned I sculpted the
model with Super Sculpey and it took alot of
getting used to. The biggest learning curve
came in when the sculpt was ready to be
sealed and molded. I always seal my sculpts
with Krylon Crystal Clear, so proceeded to do
so with this one. After over an hour of
attempting to dry the sculpt it was still
sticky/tacky. Resolved that now it was do or
die I decided to go forward with the molding
process and began building the WED clay
deviding wall to seperate the halves. The
tackiness caused the water based WED clay
to stick to the sculptire and made getting a
clean dividing line a nightmare. I pressed
onward. Once I had built a containing wall
(first time i tried this method) I was ready to
pour the plaster. I brushed in the spash coat
as normal. Once the splash coat was firmed I
began adding the burlap reinforcement layer
then finished with the top layer. The major
concern here was the tempeture of the curing
Ultra-cal molding material may cause the
super sculpey to cure as well. This locking
the sculpture into the mold. The solution I
came up with was to place the section in front
of a fan to keep air curculating around the
mold to hopefully prevent any cure of the
Super Sculpey. once the first half was set I
repeated the process for the second half.
once the mold halves were cured, I did one
half a day for two days, I gently tapped the
side with a rubber mallet and the mold came
open beautifully! The most amaziong part is
that the sculpture came out almost totally
intact.
March 24th, 2006
Finished the armature last night and will be
posting pics soon. Will be running foam this
weekend for the first foam latex Buster
puppet.
April 1st, 2006
I have been working on Buster this past
week. Ran the foam latex and finally
discovered why my foam runs were
notworking the way they should. The curing
agent has settled into the bottom of the bottle.
I shook and stirred like crazy and the Buster
foam is workable but still slow to respond. I
painted him with Acrylic paints over a
Pros-aide base. The Buster as he appears
now is pictured to the right. The armature is
created with twisted aluminum wire with the
hip and shoulder blocks made of brass. The
arms and legs are held in place with set
screws allowing for replacement of a single
limb if needed. Molds and armatures just
before being emersed in foam latex are
shown below. Next task- Creating clothes for
Buster!! LOL.
into the Project I am working on, so I started
sculpting. The medium I decided to try was
Super Sculpy. For me this has been difficult
to sculpt with. I typically use Roma clay and
the sculpy seems so soft and easily marred
or damaged. I am getting a little more
accustomed to it and have notgiven up,
however it is so different then oil based clays.
Here are a few pics of his progress so far. I
will be posting more as he goes. I also
decided to sculpt him without clothes. The
clothes will give a more tactile feeling if I
make them from material. It will also give me
experience in making clothing on such a
small scale. For the fur I had gone back and
forth over using flocking or trying to sculpt it
on. After much internal debate I decided to
go with sculpting the fur as this would prevent
the fur from "crawling" during animation. We
shall see if my decision was the right one.
LOL.
March 23rd 2006
The mold has been made and more pictures
added. As I had mentioned I sculpted the
model with Super Sculpey and it took alot of
getting used to. The biggest learning curve
came in when the sculpt was ready to be
sealed and molded. I always seal my sculpts
with Krylon Crystal Clear, so proceeded to do
so with this one. After over an hour of
attempting to dry the sculpt it was still
sticky/tacky. Resolved that now it was do or
die I decided to go forward with the molding
process and began building the WED clay
deviding wall to seperate the halves. The
tackiness caused the water based WED clay
to stick to the sculptire and made getting a
clean dividing line a nightmare. I pressed
onward. Once I had built a containing wall
(first time i tried this method) I was ready to
pour the plaster. I brushed in the spash coat
as normal. Once the splash coat was firmed I
began adding the burlap reinforcement layer
then finished with the top layer. The major
concern here was the tempeture of the curing
Ultra-cal molding material may cause the
super sculpey to cure as well. This locking
the sculpture into the mold. The solution I
came up with was to place the section in front
of a fan to keep air curculating around the
mold to hopefully prevent any cure of the
Super Sculpey. once the first half was set I
repeated the process for the second half.
once the mold halves were cured, I did one
half a day for two days, I gently tapped the
side with a rubber mallet and the mold came
open beautifully! The most amaziong part is
that the sculpture came out almost totally
intact.
March 24th, 2006
Finished the armature last night and will be
posting pics soon. Will be running foam this
weekend for the first foam latex Buster
puppet.
April 1st, 2006
I have been working on Buster this past
week. Ran the foam latex and finally
discovered why my foam runs were
notworking the way they should. The curing
agent has settled into the bottom of the bottle.
I shook and stirred like crazy and the Buster
foam is workable but still slow to respond. I
painted him with Acrylic paints over a
Pros-aide base. The Buster as he appears
now is pictured to the right. The armature is
created with twisted aluminum wire with the
hip and shoulder blocks made of brass. The
arms and legs are held in place with set
screws allowing for replacement of a single
limb if needed. Molds and armatures just
before being emersed in foam latex are
shown below. Next task- Creating clothes for
Buster!! LOL.
Buster in
progress.
Still alot to do
on the face
and fur. He
will be
approximately
6.25" tall.
progress.
Still alot to do
on the face
and fur. He
will be
approximately
6.25" tall.
| Completed and sealed sculpt. |
| Mid line dividing wall in place and ready for plaster |
| Sculpture as it emerged from the mold. completed mold in back ground. |
| Buster-First paint test |
| Buster in the workshop |
This site will be under constant construction and new content will be added
regularly. Thank you for stopping by and please let me know what you think.
regularly. Thank you for stopping by and please let me know what you think.
To the right. This is an unpainted
foam latex model. His eyes are the
Bearings I used to make the eye-
socket. They will be replaced with eyes
with an Iris and pupil. His eyelids will
be added separate as well, to facilitate
blinking actions. He works in his garage
creating his dreams. The garage was made of a fiber board
and dry wall compound. See the write up
below for details on building the garage
set walls.
Keep watching to see his progression.
foam latex model. His eyes are the
Bearings I used to make the eye-
socket. They will be replaced with eyes
with an Iris and pupil. His eyelids will
be added separate as well, to facilitate
blinking actions. He works in his garage
creating his dreams. The garage was made of a fiber board
and dry wall compound. See the write up
below for details on building the garage
set walls.
Keep watching to see his progression.
| Making a brick wall: Tutorial for a simple brick wall |
| Buster ready for the molding process |
