Failed Experiment #2

After a talk with Martin, I thought I had finally figured out what to do. I ran to Michael’s, bought some jewelry (jewelling?) wire, some hockey tape from the Canadian Tire, and made a very simple puppet. This is my first build-up puppet ever, and the process was very frustrating. I vaguely referenced THIS tutorial, because I wasn’t even entirely sure of what I was doing anyway. 

I decided I wanted to do some acting with my puppet first, as opposed to just straight up animating to my storyboard. Just a little test drive. I came up with this:

And well, it doesn’t look as bad as I thought it would. Build up puppets and stop motion aren’t my cup of tea YET, but I am certainly not scared to try either anymore. This was a good first experience, and it helped me realize what the next step in my project was

Failed Experiment #1

I’m going to call this my first failed experiment. I was not thinking about movement when I figured this is what I wanted to do, and only made a small wire rig for the head. Martin helped me re organize my thoughts and come up with different solutions for my animation.

What I learned from this failed experiment is the importance of having full body movement, despite whatever it is you want to do. 

First storyboard draft for my third assignment. I’m not entirely sure if this is how it’ll be, since I’m still missing a chunk at the end. I’m quite excited about this!