Saturday, January 27, 2007

The 3 Carlitos!







I just finished 3 Carlitos with matching tattoos tonight . This puppet is now ready for film and
dying to be animated.Carlito{Toughguy Skinny} is the good friend and counterpart to Manny {The toughguy Fat}.
Story Boards and animatics are all thats on my to do list for the next few weeks. I probably will throw in an animation test as well.....
Shel is hard at work on the 3 little girls....pro pasting and Getting ready for painting them up.

jriggity

Friday, January 26, 2007

My cast.


























































Here is the entire cast of my film . I went through all the V.O. for the film and chose the best sounding dialog for the piece. These are the actors who got the part.


jriggity

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

The Twins!




Heres a quick post of the little girl cut out with a new friend. Her 3rd clone is in the oven and cooking as i write.

I am drawing story boards all night and have an animatic completed for The poundworker sequence. Things are moving nice and Smoothe.

jriggity

Monday, January 22, 2007

Little Girl PUPPET!!
















































I am on the last week of my vacation and am very pleased with the progress We have made In the Film.

One of the major accomplishments is the Little girl puppet. I sculpted the girl in about 4 nights.

We molded her.....Shel and I built the 3 armatures for her puppets and ran 2 {one failed}.

The pics Show various parts of the puppet process.... design - sculpt - mold - armature - foam - painting. {Shel gives me a second pair of eyes in every process I complete} the pic of her holding the little girl sculpt Is her making sure I did a good job before we go into molding.

The last puppets being completed will be a large shift in my focuses. I will start turning my storyboards into animatics to fully realize the timing and flow of the piece. We have 6 major sequences that will be made into animatics with final Dialog . The choreography and the animation will be designed by myself and shel. Which will lead right into my first full SHOT for this Film.


Animation!!!


jriggity

Friday, January 19, 2007

Quick animation Test


Hey guys,I did this test the other day to get my bearings on the set Ill be animating with for the next little bit.The concept of the shot would have the charcaters heads cut off at the top.
You wouldnt see the faces....thats why their are no eyes or mouth movement.
It took 2 nights. probably 12 hours of work.I first animated to some scratch dialog then copied in the Real dialog to see how it sounded....hence the not totally matching vo.
This is also my first shoot using my Digital still and a spy cam.it worked pretty easy....and cant wait to it again.
jriggity

Thursday, January 18, 2007

Copyrights and The 3 Mannys








We sent out the copyrights of the characters and the script. This is a major part of the project and it makes everything seem that much more real. This means I will have many pics of the characters in my piece on line and out to share with the public.

Heres the latest puppet paintjob completed by shel. Manny the Toughguy FAT.

Hes the second half of the toughguy couple and I cant wait to animate him.

Shel has painted all of the puppets in this film and is definately her favorite part of the puppet fabrication.

More to come.

jriggity

Friday, January 12, 2007

Shels Hallway set!




Heres a couple of pics of my ULTRA POWERFULL wife Shel working on the Hallway set for my Film. Tonight will be my first anim test using the real set and space. I Planned it all out on paper and recorded some scratch VO for the test.
I have to figure out how to post video on here to share the test with you.


jriggity

Thursday, January 11, 2007

Voice Over for the {Pup}



























































Well.....

me and my family just got back from recording the voice over for my film.
We had 6 actors {friends and family} supply the V.O. for the 9 characters in my story.
We recorded at a Powerfull studio in lovely SantaMonica Ca. {The same place we recorded my
last short film}
Scott Crisp did the sound work for this film and my last film.....he has been incredibly kind and has helped supply us with professional sound in our independent films with no budget.

It went awesome......The actors {friends and family} added so much more to the words than what was on the paper. I am even more excited than I was before about animating to the
voices .

Shel has also been putting the finishing touches on the hallway set which will be the set Ill be
animating first. It is lit and I am ready to do a test animation.

Here are some pics of the V.O. Shoot.

jriggity

Monday, January 8, 2007

FamilyMexiPics




















































































Just some shots of the family in action.



jriggity