Arrrmatures

I've been creating the armatures for the characters in my film. I was lent a standard anamture kit from Adam but after experimenting with it I realised it wouldn't work for my characters. The main reason being it is too big, even if I constructed it as small as possible the joints would still be too large. Below is a photo of the constructed armature.



Here's the hands I built from the kit. They were hard to make without snapping the wire but after the 4th/5th attempt I got the hang of it and the design works well and is something I would like to use for Yuri and the Trevor in my film as they have a lot of hand movements.


I decided the best way to create armatures for my characters is to use a simple twisted wire method. To stop the limbs moving where they shouldn't I have covered all the armature (accept the joints) in fimo and baked it in the over.

Yuri's armature (below left) and the chainsaw man (right) have came out successfully and are flexible and light weight. So that's good.

Ooowee.

Tomorrow is armature making time. The first 2 characters I'm onna build are Yuri, the main man, and Trevor who's the lumberjack man who wants to cut down the beeeaaautifulest tree.

New Anamatic

Here's my updated anamatic including the backing track and some improved shots and sound effects. I'm currently working on my anamatic with the perspective cardboard mock scenes so that should be up soon.

Building design

This is my design for the style of buildings that will be visible outside the park through the trees.
This block of houses is coloured with watercolour and feltpen but I am also going to experiment with collage effects like I have with the trees.