HAND IN TODAY!!

I am finally ready to submit for my final hand in of 3rd year! (Well kinda of..) The film isn't 100% finished.. but I plan to work on it afterwards to get it done for myself. I still have a few things to do such as rig removal and re-shooting certain scenes, but particular segments of my film I am very pleased with and I would happily include them in a showreel in the near future.

But for the time being here's some finalised shots.

I hope you like what you see! More updates soon!

Here are all my puppets in size comparison with the trees and bushes.

I still needed to make mouths for the girl and this point and also her dress needs to be finalised but I'm getting there slowly :)

More posts coming soon and I mean that this time :P

Adding teeth to my monster :3

       

To make the teeth for my monster, I cut out pieces of funky foam and shaped them into triangles. I then sewed them into position inside the mouth. Really pleased with how this looks at the moment.

More puppet building! Little critters coming together :)

Like in my last post, here are a few more pictures of my other of creature to appear in my film.

As before I padded out the body with foam, cut it to shape and then felted it to get...

This!

He looks different to my other creatures due to the fact he has more of a personality and is a bigger contribution to the story. 

                                     

Here he is in comparison with my other creature puppet. I think they look good together I just hope everything comes together once I start animating which I hope to start as soon as possible!!

Little felted critters!

I've posted up quite a lot for my monster now, so I think its time I move on to my small little guys :P

Each little critter has a foot joint at the bottom so I can tie them down while animating if necessary.

As their mouths are quite big and they are required to move up and down, I twisted some wire and cut some round K & S tubing to make replaceable wire frames for the mouths. I also shaped some Milliput as a core for the body.

I then began to pad out the body by sticking snippets of foam to the core not covering the holes for the mouth to go in of course!!

I then cut into the foam and shaped it accordingly.

I then worked over the foam with a felting needle and wool to make this! :3 Ain't he cute? :3

I then began to shape him a lot better and gave him eyes and some pink for the inside of his mouth.

I also added a little tooth :3

I do plan to make three more of these type of critters. They will look slightly different, but I plan to repeat the same process again to get them all as close to this as possible!