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Mold Making
 Here you see the upper portion of Captain Quills head hollow cast in plastic. The soft clay replacement mouths were sculpted below this area and pressed onto the plastic for an exact fit. Once the different mouth shapes were sculpted I made one big mold of all of them together.
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Busy Times |
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Posted by: The_Noid
on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - 12:30 PM |
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It's been a bit busy lately. My son had his first birthday and first haircut recently. Had to update animateclay.com with stuff most won't notice behind the scenes. My aunt will also be staying with us for two weeks in about six days. All these things mean less time to work on Zombie Pirates AARGHH!!
I'm thinking it would be great to have a large donation so I could put off working on animateclay.com which is my main source of income. Then I could most likely pay someone to watch my son while I complete the project. But in todays economy, that's not likely.
So it will be slow going. Even though I've made more progress, it's hard to get past the fact that I've got a son that needs watching 24/7 now. Unless I get help in that area, I might ask my wife to watch him one out of the two days she is off work each week.
I'd love to do daily or weekly videos like I was doing before my son was born. Not having a creative outlet as far as sculpting and animating means I've spent more time playing my guitar while watching my son any time I am not busy. If there was a way to bring him in the garage without him getting whiny from sitting in his high chair, I'd be set. But sculpting while he gets grumpy and lets out a big YELL....means it won't be possible to concentrate on what I'm doing.
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Foam Bodied Ruble and New Plans |
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Posted by: The_Noid
on Saturday, September 19, 2009 - 05:24 AM |
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These past few days I've been sneaking in the garage when my wife and son are fast asleep.
I cast a new Ruble head and made a special armature part that will allow the cast head to lock onto the foam latex body. I melted it directly into the center of the head to get the wax flowing and hardening over the head armature and it seems nice and secure.
I also plopped in a pair of new eyes. I drilled them out and painted the dark areas, but need to make the light color next. When it's done it will appear exactly the same as Ruble and his all-clay body.
After I finish this I'll need to make a pair of long arms that will be mounted in front of the camera, and I might have to find an old rig I built to animate the camera as well. I'll post more info on that when the time comes. But I'm starting to make progress again!
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New Ruble Cast Head |
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Posted by: The_Noid
on Monday, September 14, 2009 - 10:21 AM |
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Yes - I was going to make a video, but time has been short for me lately. Tonight I managed to make a new clay cast head of Ruble. I was going to just use the single head on the clay body as well as for the foam body. But the problem I realized was the armatured part of the head is different for each. Instead I'll make a new duplicate head and cut that up specifically for the foam body.
One thing I'll need to do is hollow out where the foam neck extends up into the clay head. I might have to trim the foam as well. I don't want to fit the new clay head onto it until right before I decide to animate those shots because oils destroy latex. So for now I'm waiting for the cast clay head to cool in the freezer after melting the clay and pouring it into Rubles silicone head mold.
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Hmmmm, do I Wanna do that Shot? |
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Posted by: The_Noid
on Tuesday, September 08, 2009 - 05:28 AM |
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It popped in my mind tonight if I want to animate a specific shot next or not. I opened up Sony Vegas and checked the story boards to see exactly how I wanted to pose Ruble on the set. The shot is long and a little complex, mostly pantomime and no dialogue. Ruble gets up, bumps the barrels with the mug of rum and picks it up. Not too tough, but timing will be everything.
Then I realized I have two Ruble bodies. One is clay and one will be foam latex "cast by Mike Strain" for full body scenes where he requires a lot of movement. Well I've only got one Ruble head made and it's on the clay body.
So the question is - do I want to animate the full body shot next, or use the clay body for the close-ups? I decided that I want to animate the rest of the close-ups with the current clay body because I will have to tear apart the current head to insert it on the foam body. Since I am unsure how well that will turn out, I might do the close-up full face views next and not the full body scene.
I will work on refining the story board shots and inserting a few new drawings tonight before I move on. Then we'll decide where to take things.
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All good news! |
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Posted by: The_Noid
on Saturday, August 29, 2009 - 06:45 AM |
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The garage has been cleaned up quite a bit, enough to start setting up the next shot. I didn't check to see if I needed to clean the set surfaces, most likely when I re-arrange things I will need to take a 2 inch brush and just give it a once over.
Today was also a good day for my wife. She passed her drivers license driving exam. Why does this have anything to do with Zombie Pirates? Well it means now that my wife is more independent, I no longer have to drive her to work or pick her up at night. This knocks off about 80 minutes a day of driving around. 80 minutes that can be used on the film. Her driving skills are a little rough around the edges since she learned how to drive "wild west style" in the Philippines. I tried to un-teach her the bad stuff and drive more defensively.....hopefully it pays off. If you want to know what it's like driving in the Philippines, just watch this video. Yes, that is an ox powered vehicle on a 5 lane highway at the 2:50 mark haha.
One more thing I did after she passed her exam today was to stop in a pawn shop in Republic Missouri. It's a little ways out of Springfield where her exam was held. For the film I need one more tripod that is sturdy because Mike Strain took his tripod back for a film he was working on, leaving me short. The new tripod is about as sturdy as my previous tripod and the shop owner sold it to me for 9.99. A real steal!
Now we have one tripod that will be attached to the special rig to move up and down, and one to keep the camera on. After this weekend my plan is to make a new film and show what's next. The last major thing to get out of the way is my wifes birthday on Sunday...and a second birthday we plan to attend at her friends home.
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