Fortress gate!

I had to make the front wall of a fortress, with a moving portcullis (this will be important in the story)

Its all just cardboard and paint!

And here it is finished: (I made it so the portcullis can slide through the two outter pieces of cardboard on the wall)


And next, I found this site with an animation competition to animate morph! I love morph! So I thought I'd better not miss out on this one, and have started animating. I have shot one scene with just morph but for the rest I need to buy some more plasticine for chas, which will have to be next week - so keep watching for that!

Marnik

Evergreens! Path!

Hellooo - For the set I made a couple of evergreens like this:
They were alot easier to make than I thought! Here's one glued into the set with a couple of dead trees too.
And here is the set so far - I added more grass and a path. Still more to come!
It will probably be a few days before I do more on the set as I want to be sure everything is rock-solid dry.

Marnik

Mini trees!

Hey,

Just an update - I wanted more hills for the background to give it abit of perspective. I had some left over hills I made out of foam/hot wire and plaster. I painted these green and made little tiny pine trees out of twigs and fake-bushy-stuff from woodland scenics. They turned out looking pretty cool! (Sorry the pics are kinda bad)
Marnik

The Baron lives!

Yesterday I went shopping and got lots of arty stuff including fake grass, plasticine, new modelling tools and paint.

Let's start off with the Baron's new head! Yay!



Next is the set - I've done alot with this scince I last posted. So first I added a big hill onto the back, and then put the church on, plastering around. I then painted the ground brown/green with watered down acryllics. I then started gluing on the fake grass (pictured below)

I need to re-paint that door on the front, plaster got all over it.
Now I need to add more grass and then tuffs and bushes, trees, a backdrop and I shall be done! I'll post better pictures soon.

Marnik

Sets, trees and sleigh!

Today I started on the rest of the church set - this is once all the snow has melted so it will all be green and grassy. I started by getting the shape I wanted with chicken wire.

Then I covered it in kitchen paper and plaster. This will give it a really nice texture.

And here is it painted - I just used very watered down acryllic. It looks really good but this picture doesn't really look great, I took it when the light was bad.

I'm now gluing little sections with woodland scenics grass!
Next, I started making the army of dead trees I need! They start out as wire:

Wrapped in masking tape,

And will eventually be painted. Here are just a few.

And heres the finished sleigh :D


Thanks!

Marnik

Sleigh!

So heres the finished sleigh:




Or at least I think it's finished, comment with extra ideas! Today I will connect it to the horse, and get started on the lots of dead trees I need!

Marnik

Starting on the sleigh

Hey guys,

To go with the claymation style, I will have to make everything out of clay, or atleast make it look like it is. I decided to make the sleigh out of FIMO clay. Here are my designs:

And here is the structure of the sleigh:

I have now pretty much finished it, but will wait for it to be baked before I take pictures! Hopefully I'll post it here tomorrow!

Keep watching!

Marnik

Deviant art

Hey guys, just posting to say I have got an account on deviant art to put all my best rescent paintings, drawings, so on...

www.marnibob.deviantart.com

Check it out!

Oh and for Munchhausen I've decided to go with a completely different style to my origanal idea - it's going to be claymation sort of like Mark Twain, so I'll have to stock up on plasticine soon! I will still definately use the church...and probably the horse as I won't have any other use for him, and he's pretty cool :D

Marnik