motion blurrr

"heeeelp meeee"

GO-MOTION

Really getting into a groove animation and lighting-wise--every shot looks better than the one before it. Just goes to show that if you spend every waking moment of your life doing something, you will probably get better at it! Today we experimented with motion-blur for the first time--started off just waggling the cactus around and hoping for the best, then realized that go-motion would probably be more successful because that's an actual technique. Lowered the shutter speed and put the cactus on a slider and voila! Blurriness!

today was like this:

Placing the skulls. THANK YOU to all my nimble-fingered friends who made skulls for me.

screenshots

lost little alien

woof

Animating everyday! Here are some photos from Jenelle's phone.

DORK

my roommate matt helping us saw stuff/flip the grid

the set, the grid, my bed, and my desk underneath it

first shot...I plan to redo this one at the end--
I thought it would be the easiest one but it turns out it was the hardest instead

WALKING THE ALIEN 

late night painting

Jenelle goes crazy

late night painting

CACTUS VOICE

This is Craig Fox, the voice of the corduroy cactus.

If you need a voice actor or another type of actor I highly recommend Craig--he can do it all!

it's begun!

Jenelle building the 8-foot lighting/rigging grid

View of the set from my bed

happy little clouds

Daytime backdrop complete

2 days...IT'S TIME TO DYE

I dye de muslin

WE DYED THE MUSLIN

the dreaded blank canvas...

3 days til animation!

My sister Sarah is a super great textile artist and she wove the little belt for me, then I embroidered the vest with the same colors. Click HERE to see more of her work. She knows her way around a knot!

Guitar and a bowl of skulls

Moustache snipping

Society of Illustrators

I went to the SI for the second time on Tuesday...the atmosphere is great and everyone is really talented--the models in particular. They have great actiony poses usually, and there's always a male and a female. My only bone (aside from the distracting live music) is not having a clear view of the models' feet--that drives me CRAAAAZZZYYYYY

heh heh heh her expression kills me...by the way the model was a gorgeous woman
and her face looked nothing like this

today is a missing Russia kind of day

Also a good day to work on this lil guy:

epoxy boots with pins in the heel and toe for tiedowns

attaching the facial hair

Guitar drying...then I'll put strings!