Work Reel!

This is a work reel of my senior thesis film, Money Bunny Blues. It's a nice accumulation of the work that I've finished so far. Bunnies and pennies and all.

Here are some frames of the animation that I recently did from a scene where Dolly is chasing the Money Bunny across some rooftops. Money Bunny poops some pennies down a chimney. It's great, his butt clenches and everything. Can't wait for you to see!

These are just some snapshots of my puppets, trying to get a feel for their personalities.

Ball and Socket Armature Madness!

Here are some pictures of the finished armature for Money Bunny. I had to take a bunch so I'll be able to find the screws when I need to tighten them.

Worked on Money Bunny's armature today. It may not look like much to you, but to me.... hoo boy. Lot's of good life lessons can be learned from working with metal. The pieces aren't attached in this photo, but work pretty decently when they're put together. So the spine is finished, next order of business is to solder spine and clavicle joint to ribcage. Then make arms, hands, legs, feet, and tail.
How to drill a good tap:
-Sit down, take deep breaths, slow and careful, make sure it's straight, USE TAP LUBE and the threads will cut like a butter sandwich.
- Also, the taps split in half seem to work better than the taps split into 3rds.

:D

Zoetrope Tunnel, LIGHT TESTS.
Richard Roy, CCS instructor and very camera-savvy friend, is helpin' me out with the final shoot of my zoetrope elements. That'll be this coming Saturday morning. Each layer will be shot along-side a back-lit matte for clean compositing. Process: capture one frame in toplight, then capture one frame in backlight, animate, and repeat until 12 frames are captured. This means no green screen, and the greens will show up in the final composition just as I please.

Zoetrope 1: toplight

Zoetrope 1: backlight

Another one

And another one

THINGS THAT I REALLY SHOULDN'T FORGET OR RICHARD WILL HAVE TO TELL ME AGAIN:
- set ISO at 100 for controlled light situations like this, in studio settings
- always shoot video elements in medium-light situations; this leaves more information in the files for post-production correction if you please to turn up brightness or increase contrast
- with lighting, start as simply as possible, add more to fine-tune (bounces for soft light), and
leave room for yourself when access is necessary, i.e. stop motion animation :)
- get a lazy susan
- other stuff that I probably forgot already (when it comes back, which it will, I'll edit the post)