#mysteryboxproject

[alkinooskouts]

I tried to make a test shot to see if the armature worked or if i had to make some changes. It turned out that it was really dificult for the armature to stand on the pegleg on the walking circle. Thus, i went to the 3D workshop in the university and drilled a hole inside the pegleg. The reasone is that i glued two magnets one on the inside of the peg leg and another one under the actuall leg so they can be attached mor easily. Furthermore, i glued a thin metalic plate at the bottom of the pegleg so i can prevent the armature from falling, taking into conscideration that i would be filming the stop motion in the studio with the metalic table which would favor the way my armature works. The reason I didnt just glue the peg leg to the actuall leg is because i would need the wooden leg to be pulled out and used in the animation.

[alkinooskouts]

After finishing the armature I had to make the accesories, meaning the pegeg. I found it a bit difficult since the cutting knife i used was a bit too big for the parts at the end that needed to be handled by being more cautious and gentle. The problem is that i wasnt prepaired with the propper tools to make the leg ecactly how I imagined it.

[alkinooskouts]

While making the armature i decided to give it a test to see if im satisfie with the movements of the pupets. I positioned the puppet in a variety of poses that my character is going to have to take in order for my animation to be filmed as planned. I proceeded with creating the head so it coud be put in the oven. I didnt add the eyes, the jaw and the mouth, since i decided that i was going to use sculpty in order for some certain parts to be movable, as i was advised by proffesional Barry leith, who was a mentor and helped us in the making of our armature.

[alkinooskouts]

The next step was making an armature for the puppet. I began with forming the shape and the coresponding anatomy to my character using wire. Then, I used a type of glue to make the shape of the joints and the parts of my character that are going to be vital for moving the puppet. Afterwards, I added several matirials such as, glue and tape to create a more detailed skeleton. Unfortunatelly the character’s leg broke so i had to improvise,since it was really time consumung to fix it, and decided to replace the broken leg witha pegleg. 

The next step was to create a skin for the character. So i used latexed and created litle patterns on his white pale skin. I made some with patterns and others without.

[alkinooskouts]

That is the model of my character for the mystery box project. It was really intereting making it, since i had never worked on a sculpture with sculpty again, and informative since it was the first time i used a skeleton made from wires to support the weight and help to position the character.

[alkinooskouts]

For the final term, we where assigned to design a character and animate them in either CG or Stop Motion. The ones who chose CG had to animate a robot character, but the character design for the stop motion didnt have any particular requirements. Therefore, i decided to animate in Stop Motion. It was a hard decision make because i like and i want to try both, but since animating in CG had requirements that didn’t really suit my interests, i took the previously mentioned decision. The first task was to design a character in order to make a sculpture of him in the next class. This is a brief design for my character.