Things you can't unlearn - Short film

I’ve been a bit quiet on the home-front since Mary and Max. I have been plotting away in the shadows working on the preproduction for a new 13min short currently titled ‘Things you can’t unlearn.’ - A tale about a young guy who makes the right decision but only after it is too late. I’ll be using this space to provide updates as they transpire, but am not going to give too much away! Here you’ll find pictures of the characters and models as well as a few storyboards and other related fodder.

Tuesday, May 08, 2012

Puppets

Here is where I'll post the progress and ideas for my puppet build.

7/5/2012
Eyelid test.
I tried a method of eyelids shown to my by a friend Will Davy many years ago.
You get a plastic milk bottle, cut the sides so you have a bunch of flat plastic panels, heat it slowly over a gas flame until it goes clear, stretch it over a ball/eye on a stick and once it cools/hardens, you trim and paint to spec.
I haven't done any animation tests, but here are some pics.

cut out eyelids are tacky-waxed to dress pins in a block of the good stuff.

Painting them darker than the plasticine colour, so the contrast of the blink is stronger.

Maltesers! wet paint do not touch.

A stoner od a puppet with lids on place. (I'll try run a blink test and post it next week.)

The whole process (not counting paint drying) took 1hr.

I have completed the armature and published a video on my YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/-b7kAJiFbdk

Here is a pic:

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