San Francisco

Sorry!  I haven't posted in an eon I know.  However I have a fairly good excuse.  Wilst finishing off the film, which is inches away from completion, I got a new job.  A job working on a stop motion feature in San Francisco!  So as you can imagine life has kicked into high gear.  Starting a new job in a new city has been one of the craziest things I've ever done.  So far so good.  I promise I will post some new stuff as soon as the film is done.  Cross your fingers it's soon!

My Film is a Talkie!

I've been working away on getting the film done and here is an example of what the mouth is gonna look like. I did some experiments to see how a traditional boil would look.  I found it to be a little too distracting for the style so I've gone with just a plain traditional 2d style.  It still has some movement and life but now it's easier to adjust to the mixed media.  I'm animating this all in flash and redrawing the mouth frames, but I've established symbols for the teeth so that the skull physics still works.

Me!

Portrait by Ian Kuba

Soo It's been a while since I tore down my set and started doing post production work and I thought I would post this.  A friend of mine, Ian Kuba, has just graduated from Senaca's photography program but before that he came by and shot some sweet stills.  I don't normally like being in front of the camera so this was a little bit of a stretch for me.  Thought you guys might like to see the size relation too.

Clip

So, because so many of you asked, here it is, a clip.  There's still no post work and the lips are still to come but I think it gives a feel for how the whole film will look.   Enjoy!!

A Treat

Its been a while since posted so here's a treat for you guys.  I love this shot!!

The Forest

Hey everyone, this is the last set to appear in my short.  As you can see its not quite finished still needs a little post and I'm hoping the sound of birds and foresty stuff will sell this.  I build the trees out of foam by sculpting them with an exacto  blade.  Then painting them in gray paint.  Getting close to finished the shoot, I can almost taste it!!

The Void

Here is a still from a recent shot.  Things start to get scary and the world around Tip begins to change a disappear.  Again a pop of color brings the story together.  The Crib prop was made by Chris Pounds and the teddy bear by Amy.