Put a lid on it!

Also this week, i've made these two lids to avert your eyes from seeing the big 'hole' which'll be revealed at the end.
I used the original lid as a template, the jig-saw puzzeled the bastards and bobs your uncle. Simple....cough, i think not. I also had to plaster the surfaces again to get the same effect as before, then i have painted them both, so they look like nothing has changed, which is pleasing. Ah before i forget, the lids-1. smaller cut out for the smaller hole, and 2.-longer, trench cut out for when the hole gets bigger and turns into a trench.
Also, i forgot to mention in the last post about what i've used to fill the hole in and create the effect. After takin advice off many a'folk, i decided TIM ALLEN's idea of using EXPANDING FOAM was best to fill up the walls of the hole as well, you can easily paint over it, scrape it off if necessary and easy to add plastercene over it.

Haven't Posted in Tom Long....ayyyyo

Sorry i havent post any shiiiiiite up for past couple of weeks now as im gettin into the animation side of things now, apart from most of this week, i have made the first stages of the HOLE for DOUGIE...this is where shit goes down. Kno wa am sayin'?!
Bursts pipe, shovel snaps etc etc

New Look

Started animatin today...sort of, took me first shot (above) then realised i had about an hour left before the caretaker chucked me out...so i decided id do the shot first thing tomorrow a.m, so here's a little insight for JOE BLOGGS, the look of the first shot. Zing

Where's your head at part duex?!

Here's DOUGIE with his eyes properly IN and his added detail of "mechanical-ism" to his face with the BOLTS attatching his JAW to his FACE.

Only thing missing is eye-lids and brows...i left the correct colour of plastacene at uni over la weekend...error. So he'll be 100% completo monday.animation times..ayyyyo

Attention to deats

Here's some pics of the set, after some modifications i made this week, real pleased with it now, and it is ready for animating. Ziiing!

As you can see, there's plastercene smothered in parts of the set, for 1. to hide the hole, and 2. it is going to be used to make the walls of the hole, so it is in place so that when the 'HOLE' gets bigger and plastercene is used it wont look too outa the ordinary as you've seen it ontop of the set first. ya gets me thooo!?!

Also, you can now see that there's pieces of scrap metal planks, rusty tin barrels, blue waterpipes, scattered bricks, pile of bricks, pile of steel pipes and a pile of thin sheets of steel....these really add to the look of a building site, keeping in with that 50's style (green barrels, rope keeping the pile of pipes and sheets of steel together, weighed down by bricks, classic!)although not that much has changed really over the years...

Testing Testing 1,2,3

As i havent animated for ages, i thought it would be good to have afew test goes...here's my first at a walk cycle,now it ay gona win any awards, but it was just a quick 20mins of animation, yeh, 2 seconds worth. Needs imrpovin' will do for now.

What do you call a man with a spade on his head?

Here's further stages of Mr. Spade-head. I came across a problem once i'd finished painting the head. When i tried to place the eyes on him, i hadn't left enough 'ridge' for his eyes to sink into, so he looked like a bog-eyed bastard, so i've had to go through a major reconstruction, its UNCANNY, i drilled into his FACE to form more of a ridge and now as you can see, the eyes sit lovely...i just need to decide how much sculpey to place into the ridges (for sticky-attatchment=easy manoverability and so the eyes dont fall out)...as the doses ive used, well, the sculpey seeps out from behind the eye, it aint cricket...i need to look into that.

Progress....ayo

Mock the Week

Here's a mock up of an aesthetic idea, as my aim now is to make an "old school" looking film, but one which you could have "DOUG" from the ground, hence the sepia/brown coloured blur for the edges...this will be in place instead of the black 8mm film flicker. It will still have the film flicker, but it'll be sorta this brown sepia colour so theres not much contrast between whats going on in the animation, ie, it wont clash with the colour, it'll be less subtle.

A bit of blue for the Dad's

The True Colours are Shinning Through

So, these are just some images (with bad lighting, soz n that) of Dougie, in full colour, obviously he is still naked, he is not shy of showing abit of flesh, bless him, and he hasn't any eye's or mouth, but what he cant see and say, wont hurt him...ayyyyo

Where's your head at?!

So, here we have the head for DOUGIE, has taken me far too long and many mental blocks to get to this, but finally, im really pleased.
It consists of abit of foam, covered in white milliput, and the jaw is just two bits of wire wrapped with mesh, which will be covered with either plastacene or sculpey.

Postmortum

These be the finished props, there's more, i am just in process of either finishing them, or havent taken a pic yet...