getting into stop motion animation recently - well...i've always loved it, but i'm finally doing it! (awesome!) - anyway... after doing tons and tons of research of how to build my own ball and joint armatures, i got in contact with the very awesome and talented armature artist, jeremy spake . you might recognize some of his more recent work in a little movie called Coraline.
Anyway, after a few emails back and forth, i sent him my drawings and he told me he'd love to make puppets for my next film. It's been a long anxious couple of months and i must say it's been quite an experience seeing my drawings coming to life little by little, especially with the help of such a talented artist, so if anyone out there ever finds themselves in portland, shake this guy's hand
here are some pictures to show the progress of the puppets
my original sketch
jeremy took my sketch and laid out how the armature's gonna look
here's the clay buildup of the monster...
he looks like he's ready to eat some kids
this is the armature for my other main character in the film,
he's gonna be a boy about half the size of the monster
also! check out shea bordo's blog. he's another stop-motion-related artist that's helping out on the completion of these puppets. i must say when i visited their studio in portland this past november i got to see the characters of a short film they're working on now and it looks pretty awesome.
more to come...
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