le tigre.

all in all it's just another brick in the wall?

testing testing..

A little update:

even Rocky had a montage.

-I'm currently working on some sculpting and hopefully will lay down some casting tests today, gutted I've delayed it but I've got a few things outa the way that were holding back the amount of time I could spend on the Finley project.
-I've thought up some interesting little set details for one of the more detailed sets, which is the interior of a small house. They're pretty quirky ideas and i can't wait to see it come together.
-Progress continues on the woodland set, landscaping needs a boost so hopefully we'll start taclking that soon.

Gav's been working on a camera-dolly that I've yet to see, but I'm sure there'll be some photos up soon as it's near finished.
Exciting stuff!

W

Where the wild things are!

the visuals in this film look ace! soundtrack seems to be pretty decent too! I hope it does the book justice.
Making a feature length movie from a 9 page kids book is pretty brave.
I hope it payed off.

"Let the mild rumpus start" Cried Max.

Blu-tack-competition

Just remembered seeing about this on a packet of Blu-Tack I came across the other day so checked it out on their site.
Bostik are currently running a competition in the UK to make an advert for Blu-Tack using either live action or animation, one of the judges is Luis Cook..a director at Aardman who is behind alot of their commercial output. sounds awesome! I think we'll definately be getting something together for this as we start shooting Finley. Trying to think of a short but sweet idea will be hard seeing as you'll need to make a big impact in 30 seconds. doesn't look like there are any entries up on the site yet, but the final deadline is May so hopefully they'll start going up over christmas/new year.
details here:
http://www.blu-tack.co.uk/filmmaker

the brainstorming begins!
I need to go buy some Blu-tack (damn it)

Where's the kid with the chemicals?

This has been such an eventful day; all our silicon,liquid latex and resin orders have arrived! Though it does look abit like a police narcotics evidence locker. (I've only just found out it came today- sent them to a different address so someone would definately be there to sign for the deliveries). Ah, exciting stuff! They also sent an unintentional present in the box;

A ridiculous amount of shredded paper was used to stop the containers moving around, fortunately it'll be put to good use adding to the papier mache forest (update coming on this soon). I can't wait to knock out some tests but I better wait until Gav gets back on the weekend (he's away til Friday helping the place he works at open a new shop in a different city). Ahh, Maybe just a few small tests..? I can't wait to see this stuff come to life. Expect some expansive posts and writeups when this stuff is let loose.

W
Currently listening to: Radiohead - Where I End And You Begin

Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.

Just realised I took a picture to stick up yesterday. I bought a load of supplies and got down to doing some sculpting on heads ready for some test casts, used Das modeling material aswell as some Newplast. Das is air-hardening and a pretty nice material to work with, kinda feels like a mix between putty and clay.
Heres a shot which shows the head pretty well:




















Did a really quick, rough mockup on GIMP aswell (no photoshop on this computer) Now to work on development and get different changeable heads on the go with the help of some moulding and casting; aswell as the two sets of eyes and mo-hair thats on the way. I can't wait to do a few lip syncing tests since the cameras all set!
W