Happy birthday me! 13 today...

...that's right people, I finally hit the teen mark! I got a load of cool stuff which will be useful for my animations - I will show you some time!
In the mean time, I got to go, bye!

Fish

The animation I did with SJMovies

A short film by Morilyon productions and SJmovies working together - the comeback of the green dude from surprise.

Fish

More on the bar set

Hey guys, since I last posted, I have done alot of stuff on the bar set...

Here are the finished bottles with finished labels (made by me on Photoplus) and tin foil wrapped around the top of EVERY ONE!. There are lots - and believe me, they took a LOOONNNGGG time to complete!

As you can see, I had to take out a couple of shelves to fit the wine bottles in, but I think it looks good like that. At this point I stuck on a load of mini beer-mats to the back.


Then I made these beer-pully-things out of fimo (like all the bottles), and hot-glued them to the bar. I can tell this set's going to be good!!!

Now, do you remember the outdoor set I made a few weeks ago? Well like I said at that point, me and SJ Movies are going to do a joint production of a short cartoony stop motion. It's almost ready to start shooting, but today, we are just going to do some tests, and see how he (Sam - producer/director) likes the set and puppets. I am going to try and make a video blog at some point with him, to put on youtube and show what we've been up to!

Fish

BOTTLES, BOTTLES, AND MORE BOTTLES...

Obviously these bottles are still unfinished - but it's a start...i suppose...

Fish

Beginnings of a bar set

Hey guys, my entry to the stikfas competition will be set in a bar, so I got to work right away! Here are some behind the scenes pictures:

This is the floor...it is in that shape because when I started putting down the floor I was making the deck of a ship.

This is the main bar section - I cut 3 pieces out of wood then hot-glued it all together.

Hot glueing to the floor of the set.


This is the bit at the back (not quite sure what you call it) with lots of wine bottles on the shelves. I cut out pieces of cardboard, then hot-glued them to a piece of wood.

Here it is stuck on.

And here's another view...

A days work :D

Still need to:
Make 3 bar stools
Put up mini posters around the shelf bit
Make billions apon billions of mini wine bottles
And some more stuff...

Oh yeah, here are 3 new stikfas animations I did today:

Micheal Jackson dance

Simple exercises

A quick lip sync test - just to see if it's possible on stikfas

See you soon!
Fish

2 new stikfas!

Hey guys,
There is offically a competition on stopmotionmagic.com to enter a video about why stikfas are the best to animate! It can be stop motion, live action, CG, or whatever, so I thought I'd give it a try! But first, of course, I needed the stikfas! So I looked up where you can get them in the UK, not on the internet, and there where about 20 results - not many! But guess what - one of them is in a shop very near me! When I found out about this, I was very happy, and popped down there today. There, I bought 2 stikfas, put them together, and test animated! Here is the imformation of the competition: http://www.stopmotionmagic.com/stikfas/
Here are the lil' fellas:

Of course this is not my entry, but here is a test animation called Proposal - Orange just wants to get married to blue, but blue has other ideas!

Also, here is a sculpt I did a couple of weeks ago, here I was studying Irwin's (from the Hoosiers) face - it didn't go too well!

Hopefully later this month I will be getting a much better camcorder to animate with, that is what I will film the stikfas 'advert' with...exiting stuff!

Fish

Finished armature

Here are a few pics of the armature now finished, he's great! I will try animating him soon.

New brass tube armature in-progress pictures

Just trying out different ways of making joints, feet, tie downs etc.

Will post more when it's finished...

Fish