Creative Solutions

The result of too much wine at lifedrawing and frustration at not being able to see the models' feet...

WHAT IF YOU'RE A PUPPET?

Henry Selick talks about a stop-motion puppet's point of view. Really really cool.



My alien puppet is sitting in the other room mid-blink while I eat lunch...time is a strange thing.

wild desert photography

THE PUPPETMASTERRR

rigging the cactus, making him run

sunrise painting

still animating!

I hear it's a really nice day outside.

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.