Posted by: The_Noid
on Saturday, December 10, 2011 - 12:17 PM
It had to happen. I was never happy with Captain Lock Jaws design and wanted to update him. I've discovered a great free program called Sculptris where you can sculpt things in a matter of a few hours compared to clay. It's perfect for me to sculpt puppets in and quickly make changes. From there I can print out the sculpt to make measurements for the puppets and armatures.
So why the change? Well for one Lock Jaws current sketch that I made in clay has a round nose and no legs. I really don't like the lack of a pointy nose since he looks sort of like a whale. One thing I need to add in the digital version is a hooked hand, I'll probably skip that and just add one in the puppet stage. Which won't be for a long while since Lock Jaw isn't in the first episode of Zombie Pirates.
Posted by: The_Noid
on Monday, May 16, 2011 - 08:55 AM
I have some plans in my head for the future of this blog and Zombie Pirates that I want to share with all my loyal followers. The time has come to move forward. Since my last post, I've moved into a house. The house has a pretty nice sized garage, and I've already moved 90% of our stuff into it.
The Defiance ship is already there, as well as my animation capture equipment, lighting equipment, work tables, clay and cabinets. There's one last group of things to move. The small cabinet containing all the Zombie Pirate puppets, props and molds. And two shelves containing some old puppets and sculptures.
It's the most fragile stuff so I need to spend a lot of time carefully packing the soft clay puppets for the film. But that will not be a problem, I just need to find a little spare time to do it.
There's a few things to do before working on the film again. But we're getting close to doing that in comparison to the time since our son was born and the film put on hold. Here's my to-do list:
1: Finish moving the ZP puppets to the house. (UPDATE - COMPLETED)
2: Finish a small sculpting job for a client. (UPDATE - COMPLETED)
3: Re-make our Animation DVD in the store including the updated tech. (STARTED 15% or so complete)
4: Work on Zombie Pirates! First re-making the web site, then making the film.
So we're in reach of getting into things once again. It may be another month or two until that time, but it will be well worth the wait.
Posted by: The_Noid
on Saturday, November 13, 2010 - 10:33 PM
Ahoy fans of Zombie Pirates! I've edited the front page of the blog and removed most of the useless posts I've made that don't have much Zombie content.
This will be the last update until my life changes and I get more free time. I don't plan to add more news until that time, which could be for a while. AJ turned 2 this past November 7th. He's growing fast as time slips on by. I won't go into details but there's a lot of other things going on and he's my priority for the time. My guess is Zombie Pirates will get worked on sometime after AJ is a bit older and more easy to manage.
Until then, I hope everyone will stick around. Make sure to sign up with the RSS feed on the page which is....
Posted by: The_Noid
on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - 12:30 PM
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.
Posted by: The_Noid
on Saturday, September 19, 2009 - 05:24 AM
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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