First Girl Puppet and Trying New Things! (My work in progress so far.)

SO... I started this puppet awhile ago, but finally got around to finishing it.

Here are a bunch of progress shots leading up to the final product!

It all started out with these design sketches.
As time went on though... I had a better concept for what this character would do, so I changed her clothing entirely.
But the next step was to plan the armature.

I made slight changes to the armature to be more practical with what materials I was working with. Also, I felt the hands itself needed to be larger so the pantomimes were easier to read.

 Then I started to build out the form with aluminum foil, as well as added the placement for the wooden bead eyes.

 Here, I have added the sculpy already and baked the puppet.

 For this puppet, I wanted to try using latex, so there was no leftover armature wire to see.
I had to hot glue cotton balls in all the areas I wanted to cover, so the latex would stick.

 Here is a shot from after the latex was applied. I tinted it with acrylic paint.

A picture showing the "hair" hot glued to the strands of armature wire.

 I also had to make clothes for this puppet.
Above, I have stabled my fabric to a pattern I designed for my puppets underarmor/spandex.
Below are a couple pictures showing before and after the pattern was removed.

                       I ended up hot gluing the spandex layer to the body.

Now I had to work on the outer layer.

Started to sew the final headbands, sweatbands, and leg warmers.

 And here we stop at my current process!

It still turned out a little rough, but I was more focused on making something I could animate with, while trying out a new process.
It should look good in motion!

Also, this isn't completeld yet. I am currently adding more detail as we speak!

I'm very excited to show you the final product and to start animating! Stay tuned.

Live Wedding Painting + Some Older One Hour Paintings

I was recently commissioned to do a live painting of a couples wedding ceremony.

I had no real evidence that I could complete the task, besides showing my post of my One Hour Paintings. Luckily, it was the exact style they were looking for... and they were willing to trust me if I felt confident enough.

The final product.

 The day was June 15th, and location, Greystone Fields in Gibsonia, PA.

 Here is a picture of my set-up.

I did most of the work there, but I took it home to add a few more hours worth of painting.

The happy newily wed couple!


OKAY!

 The second half of this post is just going to be older one hour paintings I haven't posted here yet.

This one is actually a one hour painting I did digitally in Photoshop!
I gave it restrictions by only using one brush, no UNDOs, and I painted it all on one layer.

And the one below ISN'T a one hour painting... just a watercolor landscape I did one evening.

Character Designs (Outlaw)

Just doing a little character design with watercolor.

Here are some more concept pieces for my "Outlaw world."

My "Sand Slug" concept.
You might remember him from this older piece I did.

Then there is another main character I have been developing...

I've been leaning towards having the story told from his perspective instead of the Outlaw.

There are a lot of ideas stirring around for this project... I am taking it one day at a time, but I am feeling good about it!

(Baby) It's You [Poster and Film]

Out of the blue, I decided to make a little promo poster for a project I was lucky enough to be a part of a few summers ago. If you're involved in the stop motion community, you've probably already seen this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8hKXGdqQp1A

“(Baby) It’s You!” for The Boys, co-directed with Jeremy Galante and Brad Pattullo.

This is the music video that I had the opportunity to animate shots on with my teachers, Brad Pattullo and Jeremy Galante! Directed by David Cowles.

Here is the only picture of me working on set... haha!

Passive Aggressive (An Abstract Claymation)

So I don't normally animate in just clay... and I wanted to try doing a ball bounce...

One thing led to another and here I was just doing whatever I felt like doing at that moment... I compiled more shots and put together this short abstract, emotionally based film I call "Passive Aggressive."

Held in, when released… an idea changes through perception and generally we can build our ideas together. When we die, our ideas will still be here.

One Hour Paintings

Last Thursday, I wanted to try something different...
So, I went back to my roots and painted some impressionism!

This was about an hour and a halves worth of work.

Then it hit me... maybe I could try to give myself a challenge and do timed paintings for a week!

I really enjoyed doing this, so I may continue to keep painting... we'll see!

I actually did TWO paintings this day of the same spot. The first was really early, about 6 AM.

Around 2 PM, I decided to do another one… it was lightly drizzling… so i figured, “why not.” But, I only got 15 minutes in before the downpour hit me though.

I noticed it dried and thought it was cool how the rain altered the painting.

All of these were one hour sessions only, aside from the rained on painting (which was 15 minutes) and this very last one.

The last was only 43 minutes because I got off work late… and it got really dark outside!

I could not see anymore!

Setting up Stop Motion Studio Space

 I just recently bought a Canon EOS T2i Rebel, so I could start animating in stop motion again!

I'm slowly building up the equipment I would need to produce professional quality stop motion from home!

I decided to break in my new camera with a quick test lip sync with an older puppet I built over the summer... you might remember him! ;)

I rushed into this, but it's been awhile anyway... so I'm a tad rusty!

I'm just glad I can produce more content now! :)