Sculpey, foam and latex head

5/3/2013

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After my tutorial, it was suggested that I try adding very fine sporting injury foam dipped in latex and applied with spray mount ontop of a sculpey head. Once layered it can look like paper.

Firstly I wound some wadding around the eyebrow armature. I then sprayed a light layer of spray mount over the head and applied the foam with almost dried latex onto this. I used a coctail stick to tease it into the ridges on the face.
Once I covered the whole head I added bith of ripped up book page onto the surface.
I was surprised at the end result that it did have a papery quality to it. However it was also quite shiney due to the application of the latex so I would like to test this head under camera to see if it does look too shiney.
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Balsa wood head - eyes and definition

5/3/2013

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After my meeting with the stop motion technician I tried out her different suggestions for eyes in my balsa wood head:
Dowling balls
I quite liked these but they are too round in terms of what I want the aesthetic to look like.
Black pins - raised out of head
I really liked the suggestion of using pins and in particular thought the black pins raised out of the head worked particularly well.
Black pins - set in head
White pins - raised out of head
White pins - set in head
Staining test.
Staining

I wanted to try and stain the wood so as to give a bit more definition around specific features. After a coffee break I saved a bit of coffee at the bottom of my cup so as the use this to paint onto the wood. It worked ok but as the wood is very absorbent it tended to expand over the area I wanted it to be so I had to cut more of the wood back afterwards.
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Tutorial with stop motion technician

5/3/2013

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  • Add 1/2 more strands of wire into the spine and neck. Legs are fine, keep arms with 2 strands as it gives nice movement.
  • Eyebrows- wire put in with glue gun glue yo a hole made with book binding pin. If the wire breaks it can be melted out with gun again and replaced. Puppet needs the eyebrows to show some emotion!
  • Try coloured thin sport foam for clothes next to body and then build in bulkier areas with fabric?
  • Curved black velvet fabric background for scenes at desk. Dark background really effective in storyboard. Curved background will allow me to shoot from different angles.
  • Keep film looking the same. Papier mache, with bits of book print.
A four wire spine
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Skinning test

4/3/2013

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I have started to test how I will skin my puppet. As I dicovered from animation testing that the armature with the 0.9mm wire is of new use I am using this for the skinning so I can continue to animate with the good armature.
I had some tights material in a grainy grey colour that I liked and would animate well which I have attached to one of the legs. This works well with movement and is tight to the leg which is good as I want him to look as slender as possible.
I tried a stretchy wool material on the right hand arm which I had in mind for his jacket, however this was harder to work with and was therefore harder to get tight to his arm alike to the material on the leg.
On his left arm I tried wrapping sporting injury foam dipped in latex, however this also appeared bulkier than the leg material aswell.

Currently I am thinking I might keep the material on the leg and get a similar material but in a different colour for the top half.
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Feedback on latest work in presentation

1/3/2013

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  • Unsure about the eyebrows on puppet head. Look at Sophie, previous student who made paper mache head nothing moved (see picture below). Looked at Sophie's puppet and eyes and mouth do move, if I have a puppet head that doesn't move at all it will look lifeless.
  • Animation tests -good progress from first test to final one.
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