Sponsors - Christmas - and Film

Hey Guys,

Its been much longer than usual for a post but Holidays and Work has slowed me down a tad. Not too slow though....

Workspace-

Shel Touching up the puppets....keeping them pretty for all the closeups!Hard at work Late at Night!!!

.....Aaaaaaaaaaroroooooooooooo.......Wolfs Howl!!I wanted to announce that we started looking for outside sponsorship on a couple of Studio neccesaries outside our budget......we have been fortunate to have some very cool people from different places offer some Help on our Film Adventure.

THANK YOU ALL So much guys!!! I cant wait to share the finished chapter with you all in january!!

so.......We are trying to raise $2,500 in total and we are looking at ways to make it happen............

I would like to announce one of the contributors to the fund as My VERY FAVORITE TOYSTORE on Earth!!

http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/

I get all my toys from them and as most stopmo people out there --We have an inherant LOVE of Toys or Movie memorabelia from our youths ........or just cool Movie collectable stuff.

I'm so excited to have there name attached to our film because I have been a long time fan of the store....{and it feels professional that a OUTSIDE company has faith in our project}

I HIGHLY sugest you guys go there for great prices on awesome toys!! and if you think Im kidding about being a toy Lover.....check out my collection from over the years!!! Ha!

My Insparatatoruim!!!!

Ha!....and thats just my office at the house ha!!....you should see my desk at work...

Being the Holidays....and .......I had a week of Stunt work on top of my Regular job and Christmas ...... I was short on a few quotas

I have been working with extreme closeups and am amazed as to how little the movements needed for animation are {and how easy it is to screw up an animation on that scale}.........as well as the ammount of DIRT and sand and hair particals that show up....CRAZY...cleaning up is a Pain in the arse!!

the replacement heads are working well.I am about to do a new rather complicated shot on sunday night that is exciting and scary as always......Flea Pilot gets Bonked by somthing and goes into a sleight dizzy stumble....then regains composure...FUN stuff!

drilling into clay is so nice for hiding holes- Shel and Bridget have begun working on the Miniature versions of the ships

- both Flea and Dobers ships are in full swing. Its really cool to watch it happen all over again ......its just on a smaller scale.She will post on that next week.

Shel sculpting the body of dobers ship-to scale

bridget sculpting Engines for the mini ship -dobershel makin the skeleton!! for the mini dober shipThe Backup puppets are almost all done as well.....Painted and ready to go...Thanks Art Assistants!
Justin ConnollyWe are shooting for my January B day as a finish date for this sequence. Thats a fine Gift.

By the Way.....me and Nicky decided to do some new sculpts a few weekend ago.......

One thats been on my list for a LONG time....{Dirk The Daring from Dragons Lair}....I'm making a puppet version !! Cant wait to animate him!! ...More to come.

armature-reference-blocking him in.....Nickys - Next Epic Piece!! This last weekend we celebrated Christmas...which is always a great time at our house....Great family fun and Lots of great food!!

Happy Boys got a ramp for Christmas!!stockings!Sister Jenna and Bro In law ChrisSister Wacky JackieMama Daughter-early morning kidshe heNancy Bshamaslam-Brother in Law -Ray Ray Shan Nay NayDaddy Daughterha!Grandmonie and DonBrother ToddLittle Parker Ray RayRobert and Bridgetsister Jackie and Parker.Bro in law Chrisjriggity