Goal Posts

As i am still animating (hope to finish in...9days) there wont be much posting going on as its essential to me to just knuckle down and wack out the last minute or so of my film so i can concentrate then on getting the editing bang on to really make the film come together.

Just to initiate the work i'm doing...weekdays all day, im in uni with my set animating.
Weekends, getting pissed...haha, weekends i try and do editing and, well, re-mending DOUGIE, he keeps hacing minor hick-ups which takes hours to resolve, i.e his hands breaking, therefore new hands have to be made, and his joints come too lose, ie have to keep re-glueing them ball and socket joints with thread-lock which is annoying, so...yeh.
Will post up once i've finished animating (or unless somet interestin' happens)with updates on how the look of the film is coming together...

Over and out

Trenchtown Rock

Ayo!This feels odd, have been gettin carried away with animating so havent really been able to post nout up. So when i've hit the stage of my film where im at, it seems like the perfect chance.

Dougie is now further into his hole, now the trench, and so this week i've been adding the final touches to it before i start animating again.

So, i ripped off the old lid, 'doug' out all the foam (which may i add was an absolute pickle, for some reason parts of it were still STICKY, leaving me with nice stains on me hands which wont go away for about a week), ploppped the new lid on, added the plastercene and went over it all with my fingers covered in paint to keep the wet mud look.

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...