Mother's Days : Hand Crafted Props : Bench

After my first attempt at making the bench prop using laser cut per-specs and glued on plastic sheeting went terribly wrong, a Dutch Carpenter friend offered to whip a bench together for me out of wood. I accepted this offer and after 2.5 hours in his shed, this beauty was formed. Credit goes out to Danny on this for matching my design wonderfully. 

Image 01. Bench - Before

Image 02. Bench - Before

Image 03. Bench - Before

Credit to the painting skills of a battered, seaside, council cared for cold blue bench go to Mark. He was busy learning how to paint on this while I was hastily finishing up the puppets on this tight schedule.

Image 04. Bench - After

Image 05. Bench - After

Image 06. Bench - After

Mother's Days : Hand Crafted Props : Wheelchair

Wheelchair

Image 01. Finished Wheelchair

Image 02. Frame of Wheelchair made of Welding Rods bent and soldered together

Image 03. Frame of Wheelchair made of Welding Rods bent and soldered together, Sizing for wheels

Image 04. Finished Wheelchair

Image 05. Finished Wheelchair

Image 06. Wheelchair and Wheelchair

Mother's Days : Animation Test : Son's Eyelids

For these puppets I've made the eyelids as sequence pieces which in turn get stuck onto the eyeballs using petroleum jelly

This means if the character goes to blink then I will replace the eyelid pieces with the next in line for each frame to create the illusion that the character is blinking their eyelids

Figure 01 : Eyelids in sequence

This is how the shot turned out, as this is just to test how the eyelids work, the lighting is just standard room lighting, this isn't how the filming studio is set up.

After seeing the amount of flicker in the clip I used a plugin in after effects to help De-flicker the shot, this graph show the differences. The yellow line is displaying the luminance in each frame, so you can see how jumpy the lights are here in my house, and the green line is showing how the plug-in is trying to choose a smoother, linear path to reduce the amount of flicker within the clip.

This is how the clip looks after the de-flicker effect has been used.

Touchstone Documents

These documents are part of the course as a kind of 'check-in' stage for the tutors to see where I'm at and what I plan to do until the deadline.

Art of 6.3.14

Schedule March-May by Nat Urwin

Mother's Days : CG Set : House 02 : Texture Test

Figure 01. Quick Render Test

Figure 02. Quick Render Test 

Figure 03. Quick Render Test

Figure 04. House Modelled

Figure 05. House Modelled (With geometry lines)

Figure 06. House UV Mapped

Figure 07. House Texture Map

Mother's Days : Cedric & Mother pose for a photo

Mother's Days : Hair Animation Test

Before implanting my character's head with his new hair, I wanted to test that the hair would animate how I want it to. This is 2 seconds (48 frames) of animation to test his hair getting blown around in a high gust of wind.

For my purposes this shows I can move forward with this design of hair 

Little Photoshop of Horrors

The following images are a mash up of famous directors

The aim of the game is to figure out who is the top half and who is the bottom half of each new person

Have fun and leave your answers at the bottom of the post if you like....

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Figure 04. (Not Jeremy Clarkson)

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Mother's Days : Mother Sculpt

I will post up the more detailed PDF documents later on in the project, but, for now, here are some images of the mother character in clay form.

Figure 01. Final Head Sculpt

Figure 02. Gremlin Head (Mother Bald)

Figure 03. Gremlin Head (Mother Bald)

Figure 04. Final Head Sculpt

Figure 05. Final Head Sculpt

Figure 06. Final Head Sculpt

Figure 07. Final Head Sculpt

Figure 08. Final Head Sculpt with hand

Figure 09. Final Hands Sculpt

Figure 10. Final Hands Sculpt

Figure 11. Final Hands Sculpt

Figure 12. Leg with Slipper Sculpt

Mother's Days : Production Schedule

Here is the basic plan of action from now until the deadline, I've made a tab on the left side of my blog so I can update that and cross things off as I go along