Whats Been Happenin?

Hey Guys!

been crunchin at work....and crunchin at home on some freelance....So the films animation has taken a back seat FOR 2 WEEKS while I finish the job.

so ....Aedon- My daughter decided to pick up my slack with her very first stopmotion animation ever- Proud DAD....



In the meantime - here's another of the {Deleted -Special Features} from our recent DVD release of Gerald's Last Day. We thought this information was very important part of the journey but we didnt have room on the disc.....so

..... Here is an Un edited BLAST of information on GLD's Festival Tour-Lots of cool info- if you can sit through it -Ha !! -



All the busyness has not stopped shel and the art assistants from making lots of new puppet backups to tell this story.Shel also has been working on the Mini Dober -resin ship - smoothing and painting getting ready for some screen time.

In preparation for some dialog work I want to do......I did a quick mouth shapes test on the rich guy remodel puppet.........the focus of this test was to make sure all the shapes I made worked well enough to effectively SPEAK....and that the way they attach-{some sticky wax- to a resin SKULL} worked well enough



In Stopmotion NEWS - Our stop mo Brother Ethan Marak short animated film - SUPERBATTLE- is now available - on DVD .....if you havnt seen it.....check it out!

In other other Stopmo News - Our other Buddy Sven Bonnichsen at scarlet star studios has decided to create his own animation festival up in Portland. Check it out and feel free to send your film in!!

and FINALLY-

Tricks of the week-

Shopping Cart Challenge-This was created by my very good Artist friend {B Johnson}
He called the challenge and we all made it happen...ha!

Robert-



Justin-



Shamus-



later guys

jriggity

Cut In and Closeups....

Hey Guys

I took a week off of work to focus on the film with a GOAL of finishing the fight scene closeups and cut ins....before the week was done.

We now have a very cool fight scene that shel has put into EDIT.

Here is an example cut in video-



It feels so rewarding when you have a concept and you put 5 months into making it a reality....and it WORKS....wooooo Hoooo!!!

here are some pics of the closeup shots...

After this loatest big push on the film I am taking a small break to do some DIALOG animations.....just for fun. Its been way too long since I got to animate a puppet talking.....so I built-adjusted the Richguy puppet and then created some simple replacement mouths this last weekend....in prep for a nice 8-9 second piece of animation.

Ill be sure to share it with you guys.

lots more happening....and I'll make sure to post quicker next go....

Tricks of the week.- for you Grandma!!

Bionic Aedon-



SkyWalker DAD



Shel 50lb Globe Challenge.



Aedon Carnival Ride



Tailwhip Decade-



Robert BroadJump Challenge-



More to come...

jriggity

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