tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25996844871226374522024-03-08T16:28:22.435+00:00Michelle J. AndrewMermibridghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03603646437701539233noreply@blogger.comBlogger64125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2599684487122637452.post-68691430606525480022018-04-30T21:56:00.000+00:002018-05-03T23:18:03.893+00:00Finished Set (v1)<span style="font-size: large;">I'm very pleased with the three walls of the set that I've finished. I'm happy with the fireplace and bookcase and alcove though of course I can see all the imperfections as I've been working on them close up! I think the colours look about right. I have accessories to work on next, these will include apples, a lamp, some books for the bookcase, a bust for the alcover and some pictures for the walls. I'm not as happy with the table, its fairly unsteady. In the reference pictures only the feet are visible so I intend to make a longer circular tablecloth. The wire on the hem of the tablecloth works well to make it drape realistically though. The chair I'm really not happy with and its just not strong enough so I'd like to redo that out of thicker wood and with a padded seat. The sticky back felt roll works very well but I needed a little more than I'd planned to I will redo the floor and have it stretch out over a longer area.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I like how the windows turned out (and they did take an awful lot of work!). They're not perfect, they're slightly unsymmetrical which causes a problem as they're made in two parts for each pain, front and back and they're very slightly too bit causing a very slight bend which you can just see but they do move up and down and give the right impression. I want to put a landscape scene outside of the windows.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The fireplace looks right proportionally compared to the reference pictures and the bookcase colour is dark enough. Also the alcove is quite smooth and you can't notice the lines on it. The green chair is quite worn and weathered but a slightly different colour where I've repaired it at the bottom and that is bothering me so I need to change the fabric on that one piece. The fireplace needs more logs on it and to be lit from underneath with a small bulb. It should have a thing back panel on top of the mantlepiece flush wiht the wall that I want to add. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The doors both work well though the grooves around the panels aren't as neat as I'd have liked. the Proportions look right and i'm particularly pleased with the pewter colour door handles made of polymer clay. I'd like to add hinges for when they're open.</span><br />
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<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2599684487122637452.post-70086143669509899592018-04-30T13:30:00.000+00:002018-05-04T00:05:02.513+00:00Louisa's costume - Making Louisa's dress<span style="font-size: large;">I have used Fabritac to make Louisa's dress with some sewing to gather at the waist. I would like to remake the dress in lighter fabric but also I would like to add a ruffle gathering over the front and a small bustle at the back. The fabritac is quite strong but does tend to show on the seams when they're stretched open. it works well on the hem where I've added a wire. I also need to remove some of the body stuffing which is stopping her bend at the waist very well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The skirt of the dress is made of six tapered panels glued at the seams and ironed flat. This uses bubblejet set 2000 inkjet printed fabric using a design i've scaled down so its really small.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I've then added wire to the hem of the dress to allow it to be animated more easily and help with draping.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The dress shown on the left would have been more elaborate than Louisa normally wore as she wore it for the photograph (which weren't very commonplace at that time), but the fabric is relatively stiff. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The bodice is made of one piece of fabric with darts to increase the shape around the bust. all the edges have been glued.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is how the dress looks at this stage but needs an additional bustle and ruffles gathered over the front with collar and cuffs fixed. I also need to remove some of the stuffing from her body.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have created the animatic for the "<i>Windfall</i>" trailer in Premier Pro. This is a combination of:-</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: large;"> my own digital art created in Procreate for the external Orchard House shot and the scenes with both Louisa and Lulu in</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;"> Voice for Louisa kindly provided by professional voice actress and Louisa re-enactor Marianne Donnelly </span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The animatic gives an indication of timing, scope of shot and camera angles and how the finished trailer will look. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There are three windows in the study of Orchard House, two on the right hand wall of the set. They are sash windows made up or two sections, each with 9 panes of glass (3x3). To replicate these windows I studied reference pictures, both internal and external of Orchard House and other sash windows from a similar period. I particularly wanted to replicate the intersection of the batons.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I started with sections of 2mm styrene for the main window frames. I added 1mm styrene for sections on either side that would run in the grooves of the mdf window space to keep the lower of the two sections in place. I then added hexagonal section styrene strip, sanded into half hexagon shape as the batons, cutting at an angle at the intersections.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The styrene was attached to a sheet of green acrylic with Plastic Weld, being careful to keep the spaces even following the full size diagram based on estimates from Orchard House photographs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This animation shows the set design created and animated in sketchup. The three red panels on the base illustrate where the three animation stages will go under the set. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This design has helped understand the best camera angles to use for each scene and what will be necessary to create for each camera angle and which walls won't be seen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Paper plans were also created for the floor plan and each wall / side elevation both in 1:28 scale (to fit on A4) and full model size. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The alcove to the right of the fireplace is quite a large feature in the room and at the time Louisa lived in Orchard House displayed a bust of Socrates (though now contains a bust of Bronson, Louisa's father, sculpted by Daniel Chandler).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I started with reference pictures and measurements taken at Orchard House of the height, width, depth and height from the floor. The alcove in my set is 18cm high.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I decided to 3d print the form of the alcove so the first stage was to create a digital model of the shape. It didn't need to have a base as this could be added with MDF. I created the model in Sketchup.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The model was then cut into three pieces, one of the top curve and two sections that were identical for the middle and the base. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The alcove was printed by Josh Sibley, a student at Staffordshire University using his personal 3d printer. It took approximately 15 hours to print.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As you can see the printed leaves the model with a number of lines and ridges so these were sanded smooth and then primed and resanded a number of times until smooth. I used both car primer (for the first coat) </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">... and then followed this with artists gesso which is quite a thick primer and sands well. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The border coving for the alcove was made from 2mm MDF, cut and sanded into shape and fixed onto the front edge of the 3d printed form with hi-tack glue. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The alcove was then fitted into a hole made for it in the wall of the set. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The alcove was painted with satin emulsion to match the door, door frame, skirting and coving in the room. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I will be using these for Louisa's dress</span>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2599684487122637452.post-35419284414840916742018-03-27T23:49:00.000+00:002018-04-29T23:52:52.630+00:00Louisa's Costume - Fabric<span style="font-size: large;">Following on from my previous costuming post, I gained some information on how to create my own fabrics that would have a small enough pattern at this scale and resemble period fabrics and patterns and also how to better drape them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Also some more information from Meg Wilcox on the appearance of Louisa's dresses in the photos and how they were probably made:-</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f1f0f0; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">"I looked at photos of LMA today, and she's definitely corsetted in all of them. She might not have particularly liked corsets, but she wore them, just the same. Her dresses and hair-dos are very fashionable. It was interesting to learn more about her! The pattern that you found on archivedotorg looks very much like one of the dresses in her picture! Did you notice how her "front hair" was crimped? Very stylish. I particularly like the one of her seated at her desk, with the ruching all over her dress. It has a "watteau" pleat, that starts at the shoulder in the back, which is why the back looks so bulky. The bodice would be fitted underneath the pleat, in an homage to the 18thc sack-back robe a la francaise. Very up to the minute for the 80s. Butterick put out patterns at this date, and there are a couple of watteau backs."</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f1f0f0; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">In addition I queried whether they would have worn knitted and crochets clothes?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">"</span></span><span style="background-color: #f1f0f0; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">No brand name but a good hunt should produce cotton curtain lining, shiny on one side dull on the other. Easily dyed. Calico is firm originally from Calcutta, hence the name corruption, and dressed with China clay before chintz printing. Do you have a John Lewis store anywhere near you? They always have a great selection of pure cotton voices, muslins and linings. The alternative is habotiai silk which I've always used. I get white 12 momme (the official weight of silk) and dye or print my own."</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f1f0f0; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Printing on natural fabrics is so easy. You need Bubblejet 2000 and freezer paper. I get both from George Weil who are brilliant. Soak the fabric in the liquid and hang it to dry. Then iron the fabric to the shiny side of the paper. Not the paper to the fabric. Then print it on an inkjet. Does fade of run when wet. You can do solid colours then choose a pattern from Word and match the main colour with checks or stripes."</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f1f0f0; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">See the next post on costuming for my experimentation with printing my own fabrics...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As part of my research into 1880s fashion I was struggling to find exactly what I wanted for Louisa, especially sewing patterns for 1880s house dresses. I asked for advice from the Internationl Guild of Miniature Artisans (IGMA) who are experts in all things miniature and another member, Meg Wilcox kindly provided me with a whole host of historical information. Meg works as a costume historian so is definitely the person to go to for this sort of information! Meg suggested I try archive.org, a fantastic website which digitizes all sorts of vintage periodicals, an avenue of research that had never occurred to me before. The fact that there were plenty of fashion magazines in publication at the time and were vitally important to ladies at that time as most made their own clothes or got them made bespoke as there weren't off-the-shelf options in that period. The magazines did not always include colour plates but were very descriptive and included sewing patterns. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here is some of the information that Meg gave me :-</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Period ladies magazine</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">s, like Godeys, Petersons, Harper's Bazar, and others are our initial go-to when researching a specific costume. Many of these are available on </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="" data-lynx-mode="hover" data-lynx-uri="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2F&h=ATPfXGDRGArG_hIZs5mmsIlce35R0edre6AvGcUs7-i-JXKe-PKyjQ1CXjuWNCetgD0KcDKwziMHpltYSi1dwvcTlIZFNNq7XP0nvJoaHI3Z1PPh" dir="ltr" href="http://archive.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">archive.org.</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Fashion-plates only show the "ideal", but sometimes there are articles on every-day dresses, too. Then we search for photographs on-line, and check our reference books for pattern-making advice.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I could spend many hours losing myself on these websites. Not only do they contain all sorts of fashion pictures and articles but also pieces on needlecraft, knitting patterns, and little nuggets of useful information about how life was in the 1880s. I later found a site that lists all the Harpers Bazaar magazines by date:-</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">1879 is one of those interesting dates - bustles disappeared for a couple of years, and skirts became rather slim. 1888 is just coming out of the Second Bustle period, so you've got two transitional periods going"</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Liberty ofLondon makes “cotton lawn” that is thinner. Old handkerchiefs are also a good source of thinner cotton (they were often starched, but it washes out)</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The bookcase is made of wood glued together. First I started with some reference pictures from Orchard House:-</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">One problem was that I didn't have a straight on side view to tell exactly how it looked from that angle, or from the back. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Next I made a scale drawing both on paper then in Sketchup based on measurements of width , height and depth from Jennie at Orchard house. I estimated where the shelves should sti relative to other furniture and structures in the room. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I cut out the pieces from Bass Wood strips. This is also called Lime or Lindon wood and is harder than balsa wood but not as hard as pine so its good for carving or cutting with a scalpel and sands easily but is reasonably strong. The wood I've used here came from Eileens Emporium and I've used a variety of thicknesses from 6mm down to 1mm. The shelves are all 4mm and overall the bookcase is 21.8cm tall.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Next I sanded each part having glued two pieces together for the sides with one panel for each side shaped with a scalpel. I used a palm sander and hand sanded to get the rounded edges then checked they were straight with a set square. Even so they still took a little more sanding when it came to gluing them all together. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I painted each part with wood dye. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Its very thing and dries fast but also dries a good deal lighter than it originally looks so they had two coats, working quickly with a coarse brush in the direction of the grain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I've used 'no-more-nails' wood glue to glue the pieces together, making sure they were straight in all directions and holding them for a couple of minutes until they were secure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I then gave the whole bookcase another coat of wood dye.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is how it looks as part of the set.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This post is about the construction of the mantlepiece for the fireplace. I have measurements of the internal part (the black part where the logs go) but not of the mantelpiece itself so these were estimated from photographs using the surrounding furniture as reference. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I also went to some DIY shops to have a look at some fireplaces and get an idea of depth as this wasn't very clear from the photographs. They were actually a lot narrower than I expected. Around 10cm at the bottom and 18cm for the top panel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">From these measurements and estimates I drew a full size accurate drawing on paper of both the front and side elevations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The mantlepiece is made of both sheet styrene (and easy to cut plastic) and MDF in various thicknesses from 2mm to 18mm. Two of the styrene pieces were sanded at an angle to give the specific profile of the fireplace. This picture shows all the pieced glued together. I used Plastic Weld to glue styrene to styrene and hi-tack glue to fix MDF to styrene with wood glue for the MDF to MDF joins. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the picture above, from the top, there are two layers of styrene followed by a sanded at an angle piece of styrene. Below that is MDF followed by more angled styrene and below that are two more pieces of MDF, the bottom one having an arch cut out for the fireplace itself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The plaque was made with extruded styrene strip which comes in all shapes and sizes. I've used a small half circle shape for both the plaque frame and the decorative bars, in two different sizes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">To make the plaque I cut out a small rectangle of styrene sheet, 1mm thick and 4 angled bars of the small semi-circle styrene strip. These were then attached with Plastic Weld. The Plastic Weld evapourates very fast sometimes you have to redo it a few times and its important to keep the lid on (the cutting mat behind now has a lot less lines on it due to spillage!). Once it does stick it makes a very good bond.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then a coat of white gloss paint. This will be finished in cream with the fireplace slogan printed and attached in the plaque frame. Part 2 will show how I've made the internal part of the fireplace where the logs will go.</span><br />
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<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2599684487122637452.post-89653615712718609612018-02-28T15:18:00.000+00:002018-02-28T15:18:23.382+00:00Louisa - Character Design - Painted HeadI've painted one of the resin casts of the head. its a little uneven but I like how it looks and will be useful for the character design stage as I can now draw it correctly at every angle.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The kits can be bought here https://www.ebay.com/itm/0?ViewItem&Item=202165437904 along with many other items suitable for 1:6 scale animation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The tutorial to put them together (plus many more useful tutorials from Natasha) can be found here. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As you can see, I had some help today as the school was shut due to snow!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I hope to glue / weld / modify this armature later today and it will be ready for some test animation tomorrow.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2599684487122637452.post-52120319994018713482018-02-23T15:14:00.000+00:002018-02-28T15:15:50.068+00:00Louisa - Maquette<span style="font-size: large;">I'm about halfway through sculpting the maquette of Louisa. In this picture I'm using a resin head made from my original sculpt but for the final one I'll add the clay sculpted one back on. She's about 25cm tall and I'm using Chavant Clayette which is very soft oil based non-bake clay. I plan to mould and cast her so I have a permanent model. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Louisa is around 46 years old for this maquette. I've had some lovely feedback from the Louisa fans on the Louisa May Alcott facebook group which is reassuring that I've captured her likeness. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am in the process of sculpting Louisa's head for use in character design sketches. I'm using Clayette, which is a type of oil based clay, quite soft and not sticky. She will then be moulded in silicone and cast a few times in resin and painted. This will allow me a 3d head reference which will help get angles correct in various poses for the character design. I came across this idea in this skillshare tutorial:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My Screenplay in FinalDraft for Act 1 is in Progress. I have completed a Breakdown as shown above which show the entire film, though I will be concentrating on Act 1 only for my Masters programme. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The above sheet shows the overview of scenes and cast. Additional tabs will show Wardrobe and Props required for each scene.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2599684487122637452.post-88129331447319049092018-01-13T12:25:00.005+00:002018-01-14T23:38:24.924+00:00HeartsEase - Part 1 (of 2) - Scenes 1 - 9<span style="font-size: large;">The following is the storyline / narration for the film based on much research and expert advice and some artistic licence. It includes background information text boxes to give more of the back story and 'feel' of the film. It also includes reference pictures for illustration. Part 2 to follow. This will then be turned into a screenplay and then a finished detailed storyboard.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Technical Details: This was written and formatted in an old version of MS Word. I converted it to a PDF in Office 365 (go to print, then send it to a PDF file rather than a printer), opened it in Photoshop then exported each page as a jpg. The entire document is available as a PDF file on request.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u>The Scene List</u></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">Opening Credits</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">1. Winter at Orchard House</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">2. A story by the fireside</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">3. May's ideal french life</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">4. May falls pregnant but prepares for the worst</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">5. Louisa is ill; Lulu is born; May becomes ill and dies</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">6. Emmerson tells Louisa of May's death</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">7. Louisa prepares the nursery; A box of May's things arrives</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">8. Louisa goes to the wharfe to await Loulou's arrival</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">9. Lulu's first birthday</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">10. Lulu in the garden with Bronson</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">11. Lulu's second birthday; teething; gifts for the poor</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">12. Louisa spanks Lulu; New Year's Day 1884</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">13. Lulu skating on Walden Pond; Lulu's diary</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">14. The Shadow Children</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">15. Louisa burns letters; crickets in the grass</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">16. Louisburg Square; Louisa very ill; Lulu's tricycle</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">17. Bronson dies; Louisa dies</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">18. Lulu's father comes to take her</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">19. Conclusion of fireside story</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">End Credits</span></li>
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May Alcott Nieriker</h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In this reference picture of Lulu aged 7, she has her hair tied back in a ribbon, a common style of the day. Fringes were also very common for little girls and she has slightly wavy hair although curling hair in rags was in fashion for many decades.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">To add the ribbon to the animation puppet I have first tied her hair back from her face, leaving the short fringe hanging forward, making sure the hair is not bulging out and is tied back firmly, the sides especially, and covering any bare patches of head.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have then held the hair by putting a twist in it and used a fine sewing needle and brown cotton to sew the hair in place. I have sewn the hair to itself here, not into the head. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is how the hair looks when I've finished sewing it in place. The twist disappears and the hair is caught in the centre of the head. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">The bow is made from narrow blue ribbon. This particular ribbon was taken from the blue top used for the fabric for Lulu's dress, where it was the hanging loop. This makes sure the colour matches her dress. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This method is very simple and uses a fork to tie a bow with the ribbon. If you need to make very tiny bows you can use a darning needle with half the loop sawn off. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have chosen to not set Lulu's eyebrows until after the hair is finished so they will be in the correct position compared to the hairline and brow. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the picture above the bottom 'hair' is the mohair I've used for Lulu's hair. The picture above is a slightly darker shade of viscose which has no curl which I have used for the eyebrows as eyebrows tend to be a little darker than the hair.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There are several ways I could add the eyebrows. Drawing on doesn't work too well on silicone. I could have used silicone paints but I thought it would look more realistic if I hair rooted them as I had done the rest of Lulu's hair. Again the reborning community provided some great tutorials on how to do this. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The hair is smoothed and then held firmly in a loop with one hand. the needle is used to pull out only a few strands of hair to insert. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have inserted only a few strands intermittently along the browline where I want the eye brows to be. I have made the eyebrow thicker at the end near the nose. It is important to lay the needle as flat as possible to the face when inserting, insert slowly and hold the needle in the direct of the eyebrow hairs which start at the side towards the side of the head almost horizontally and finish more vertically at the nose end. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The eyebrow looks quite odd at this stage, like she might have werewolf blood!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After implanting, I have dragged the bunch of hairs out in the direction I want the hair to lay which encourages it to lay flat. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have cut the hairs with very sharp scissors. Cut longer than you think to start with then gradually shorten them until they look right. I have repeated for her other eyebrow. The picture above shows me gently pulling the hairs in the correct direction.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2599684487122637452.post-47739728905164078752017-04-20T15:43:00.002+00:002017-04-23T22:08:03.884+00:00Progress against Learning ContractI am now coming to the end of this module, 'Negotiated Project 2' for my Masters Degree. The deadline for this is 24th April 2017 so to wrap up below is a summary of how well and how completely I have met the original objectives of this module.<br />
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Negotiated Project 2 is a 30 Credit module requires approximately 300 hours of study / practical work. The module is detailed in the Learning Contract which has been regularly updated.<br />
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years of Louisa May Alcott's life, her relationship with her niece Lulu
Nieriker and their lives in Orchard House. <o:p></o:p></span></li>
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research and expert opinion. Character and set designs (digital) based on
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Diary; Research; Progress; Collaboration; Draft study guides for
maquettes, animation puppet fabrication, and costuming; <o:p></o:p></span></li>
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I set up this blog on blogger after comparing this with Wordpress and deciding this suited my requirements, was relatively easy to set up yet included a number of options, styles and formats to be able to personalise it. I looked at the kind of blogs other animators and illustrators were using and read reviews. I tried to keep the formatting and colour schemes as simple as possible despite my usual inclination to over complicate and use a multitude of colours. I'm also partial to a black background as in my other websites but decided to keep this blog crisp and clean and to follow the good example of other bloggers such as Caroline McFarlane-Watts who's blog is always detailed, informative, enjoyable and easy to navigate with lots of interesting photos. </div>
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My first blog post was at the end of January 2017 though you will see earlier posts than this where I have back populated with some of my previous work. It took me longer to set up than I'd envisaged. This is a continuing thread in this Masters that nearly everything took longer than I expected! Despite keeping it simple, I took notes on how I set up the blog and also went on to include a specifically styled gallery taken from GeorgiaLouStudios blog that allowed me to post pictures in a gallery that linked to particular pages on the blog https://georgialoustudios.com/how-to-create-a-responsive-blogger-image-gallery/. This required a little adjustment to get to work, modified pictures, and a certain amount of trial and error. I regular get update newsletters from GeorgiaLouStudios and they have proved invaluable in up to date research on what works in a blog from menu setup to overall aesthetics including what appeals to different agegroups, </div>
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I set myself the target of three blog posts a week and I will have achieved and surpassed that by 24th April and expect to continue to blog after this modules deadline. </div>
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I have found it extremely useful to blog regularly and wish I'd set it up earlier at the start of the Masters or before. One advantage is that it means that I take many more photographs that I would otherwise do and am forced to organise, file and crop/edit them regularly in order to use them in the blog. It has made writing notes and answering queries from my notes easier to manage as I can search for things in the labels / tags list. Having a visual record of what I've achieved and one I can share is also satisfying and allows for much shameless self-promotion. I also feel that I am in a better position to apply for roles in the animation industry now I have a place I can direct people to to see my work. I have a website also but found the blog much easier to set up and update without the Wordpress layout and formatting issues I'd experienced. The other advantage is that I pay for hosting on my website whereas blogger is free and there is much opensource code out there that's free to use so you can really personalise your blog without having to pay a web designer or spend months learning how to do so.</div>
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One benefit of studying animation is that you can have several characters and props at different stages of the fabrication timeline meaning that there is a great variety of tasks ready to be undertaken at any one time. I thrive on variety and this means that you can pick up a task to suit mood, the free time you have, whether you have natural light available or not, whether your supplies have arrived, which room you have free to work in etc. I have tried to keep the blog linear for each fabrication process so you can follow it through from beginning to end which has meant some backfilling of posts. I have also tried to keep the post tagging up to date so a particular method or task is easy to find. This means that unlike the undergraduate projects where the Production Diary was one long PDF document as in here http://www.michelle-j-andrew.com/production-diaries/, the Production Diary becomes multiple blog posts under the 'Puppet Fabrication' or 'Lulu' tags. When the tutorials are finalised they will be one printable document. </div>
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I will be writing a post showing how my estimated time for each task differed to the actual time spent on each task to inform future modules but as an example, I had predicted 45 hours of research,in total, 15 of which was to be on Louisa's biographies and I believe I have greatly exceeded this. It has also provided me with justification to buy some old collectable books, first editions and signed copies!</div>
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The blog has really helped me focus on reflection at every stage of the process. I am constantly aware of what I might improve on , do differently next time, what isn't working, where I am losing time, where I don't have contingency time, where I should have ordered supplies earlier, and what is working out just perfectly add the blog allows me to make notes on these as I go along. At the moment I'll still have to pick through the blog posts to pull out the reflection items but the visuals in the posts help to job my memory on the aspects and issues I mean to include in the reflection. I have tried to add to the biography bibliography as I have gone through them but the bibliography still needs updating at this stage.<br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><u><b>Redraft of storyline based on biographical research on the last 10 years of Louisa May Alcott's life, her relationship with her niece Lulu Nieriker and their lives in Orchard House.</b></u></span><br />
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For my previous modules I had undertaken a large amount of research around the writings of Louisa May Alcott but had always had a sticking point around which story I wanted to include as the story Louisa reads to Lulu as my centre scene. After a tutorial with my university supervisors early this year, it was suggested that I concentrate on the relationship between Louisa and Lulu and this greatly changed the focus of my research and felt much more appropriate to the short film. Unfortunately this meant that I was starting research again from the beginning, something I hadn't planned for and as a result took a lot longer than I had estimated. This time rather than studying Louisa's books, I began looking at Louisa's biographies, those on her close family and reviews of those biographies. I started asking questions of some of the experts like Susan Bailey (https://louisamayalcottismypassion.com/) who has a been a great help in showing me which parts of the biographies to start on and answering some of my more obscure questions. It was also Susan's idea for me to join the Louisa May Alcott Society. I have also spoken to Anne Phillips who produced the Louisa May Alcott encyclopedia and has offered to answer future questions I may have. There is even a trip from the UK to Louisa May Alcott's house being planned for later this year which I hope to attend. </div>
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In studying the biographies I became even more engrossed in Louisa's life and personality and how the adoption of her late sister's daughter as her own effected her life. There are some wonderful anecdotes and it beautifully illustrates the life and attitude of the period and how forward thinking and unconventional the family were. Through these (sometimes conflicting!) biographies I have put together a detailed timeline of the last 10 years of Louisa's life from when her sister May got married to Louisa's death, covering the period when she became a mother to May's daughter Lulu. </div>
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The detailed timelines is found <a href="http://michelle-j-andrew.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/detailed-timeline-of-louisa-may-alcott.html" target="_blank">here.</a> For this I have tried to pull out only the information relevant to the relationship between Louisa and Lulu and not included every detail of their lives and houses unless it had an influence on this relationship. All the key events are included and some experiences that predate this period that had an effect on Louisa's morals and personality which were then reflected on her relationship with Lulu.</div>
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This was a little too unweildy to base a storyboard on so I produced a '<a href="http://michelle-j-andrew.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/pensee-summary-of-scenes.html" target="_blank">Summary of Scenes</a>. This uses a creative thinking technique where I associate scenes with particular songs or music, not to be used in the film but as inspiration for the feeling or style or meaning of a scene. </div>
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In addition to this and flesh out each scene for help Larvi produce this Storyboard I started to detail each scene in its own post such as this one for <a href="http://michelle-j-andrew.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/scene-1-design-for-life.html" target="_blank">Scene 1</a>. The other scenes have not yet been completed though you can see the format I'm using. I have included estimate length, the camera angles, dialogue and setting. <br />
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A large part of the reseach that I have carried out on period dress, the location, Louisa May Alcott, Lulu and the other characters along with puppet fabrication, sculpting and mould making has been visual. In order to organise this work and maintain the links to original sources I set up a number of Pinterest boards which can be found <a href="http://michelle-j-andrew.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/reference-pictures-in-pinterest.html" target="_blank">here.</a> This is also an example of the gallery code I have used in this blog where clicking on each picture will take you to a different location on that subject, either a website or a page on this blog.<br />
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<b style="color: #38761d;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">Research on maquettes and animation puppet fabrication - sculpting, armatures, silicone moulding, casting and painting</span></u></b><br />
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This research started with going through my previous store of books on animation, casting, moulding and puppet making of which I now have many. My most recent and much prized was an original copy of Jiri Trynka's Midsummer Nights Dream from 1960 which has some beautiful animation puppet pictures in it. The next stage was many hours of google and blog searches and bookmarking numerous youtube instructional videos along with some Stan Winston School of character arts courses. Fortunately Pinterest also allows you to pin videos as well as static pictures so I have included these in my Pinterest boards. As I started to sculpt I needed a number of reference pictures. I tapped my learned sources in the Louisa society to less well known pictures of Louisa and her family. there are very few pictures of Lulu in existence but believe I have them all now! My favourite on is of Lulu on an antiquated bicycle with the most stubborn expression, backed up by an anecdotal entry in one of Louisa's letters to Lulu telling her she could only have the bicycle if she would sit still and let her hair be curled! Thank you to Susan Bailey for forwarding me this fantastic picture.<br />
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For sculpting I have used some great tutorials from Stan Winston, Gnomon Workshop, Patricia Rose studios and for character design SVS Learn, Will Terry and Aaron Blaise all have great online and dvd courses available. Amelia Rowcroft has been particular helpful at answering my questions on armatures and Upuno and Malvern Armatures and provided some good points on ball and socket armature design. Alba Garcia is always an inspiration when it comes to animating and her videos on silicone casting are the best I've seen and she's always willing to provide advice despite her incredibly busy schedule on Dangerously Ever After outside of her day job!<br />
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Often I have used experts outside the field of animation for advice on particular techniques. Silicone painting is done especially well for 'reborn' babies and costumes for bjd (ball jointed) dolls. Whereas hair rooting in the special effects industry uses the same techniques so it pays to look outside of animation for particular skills.<br />
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<b style="color: #38761d;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">Research on period dress and on making miniature shoes, wigs and costumes.</span></u></b><br />
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<b style="color: #38761d;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">Final designs for sets, props, characters and costumes and...</span></u></b><br />
<b style="color: #38761d;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">Software familiarisation with Photoshop/Procreate</span></u></b><br />
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<b style="color: #38761d;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">Animation puppet maquettes for the Louisa and Lulu characters.</span></u></b><br />
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<b style="color: #38761d;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">Trial animation puppet fabrication - sculpting, moulding, casting, painting, wigging</span></u></b><br />
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<i>(see blog)</i><br />
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I have decided to sculpt Lulu's boots in silicone as part of her body but in blue with white buttons. This has turned out relatively well but needs further refinement around the boot seems though I believe the process I'm using is sound and will work for the final puppet. I have however made a pair of iceskates sculpted from Apoxy Resin for Lulu to carry over her shoulder as she storms in from skating on Walden Pond.<br />
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T.J. Bull and Jacob White who are now finishing the third year of the undergraduate Stop Motion degree course at Staffordshire University have also input into scene design and animatic for the film and I'll be posting about that soon.</div>
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I always find collaboration an enjoyable experience and my project has been met with positive feedback from numerous people. It has been thrilling to talk to others equally obsessed with Louisa May Alcott and to share little nuggets of information we have found. On the animation side, I have been sharing my progress with other animators such as Norman Yeend in Australia, a professional animator who has worked on various projects including $9.99 and has been a motivating influence. I have also received feedback from my puppet and model making friends and experts including Andre Masters who has given me great sculpting suggestions (plus a trip to see behind the scenes of Isle of Dogs and a signed Making of Fantastic Mr. Fox book!) and Mattieu Rene who is always a wealth of sculpting, casting, and moulding information and doesn't pull punches when it comes to a decent critique of my work. I've also joined groups on miniature costume pattern making, local sewing groups and illustration networks to help with other aspects of the project. I'm still in talks with various armature makers who I hope to work with for the final puppets ball and socket armatures which are likely to be bespoke creations to account for their size and proportions.</div>
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<b style="color: #38761d;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">Study guides for animation puppet fabrication, animation puppet costumes.</span></u></b><br />
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The tutorials themselves are not yet written / recorded in tutorial form though the majority of the content is contained in this blog as standard blog posts. The more I research the more I am inclined to produce video tutorials as I am more drawn to these and find them more enjoyable to study and expect they are more popular for this type of subject. The tutorials will have their own section on the blog website and are scheduled to be finalised in later modules.</div>
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<o:p>My overall aims from the Learning Contract were...</o:p><br />
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greatly improve my skills in producing professional standard animatable
characters and costumes. To sculpt character maquettes. To improve understanding
of moving mouth character and costume fabrication, including design, sculpture,
silicone moulding and casting, armatures, finishing, wigging, and costume
making for animation. Practice in digital drawing including learning and practice
of relevant sortware. To collaborate on the production of the final version of the
storyboard (digitally). To finalise the storyline based on biographical
research. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><i>40%</i></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><i> – Sculpted
character maquettes and trial animation puppets and costumes for three scenes. Two
characters (Louisa and Lulu) in period costume. Actual puppets available for
viewing on request and fabrication process illustrated in production diary (PDF
and blog).</i><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Lulu will be a completed puppet with a number of areas I wish to improve on. Most of the tasks involved have been tested using a variety of methods for comparison and have been posted about in this blog. The Louisa puppet is on a ball and socket armature with wadding and fabric torso, with sculpted , moulded and cast hands and head but this is not yet complete. The maquettes are not yet completed.</span><br />
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and Production of Final Storyboard (approximately 80-100 cells – for 3 minutes
of animation); Collaboration on production of two 2D animated scenes
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Storyline and script based on biographical research and expert opinion.
Character and set designs (digital) based on background research Characters studies
(digital photo composition and digitally drawn) and final character designs
including different angles and expressions, refined from the draft versions in
Negotiated Project 1. Collaboration and production of final set designs
(digital photo composition and digitally drawn) for each scenes, with at least
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<span style="font-size: large;">There are several possibilities for animation puppet eyes. The Lulu puppet has particularly small eyes due to her age and the scale (1:6) and her realistic proportions. For this size of puppet she should have 4-5 mm eyes, bearing in mind most of the human eyeball doesn't show and is in the skull.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I looked at ready made eyes, there are a few on the market but not so many of this size and most are flat rather than spherical.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It makes more sense to make the eyes myself as then I can add a hole for turning them with a pin. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The eyeball can be made of apoxy sculpt (or milliput), polymer clay (fimo or sculpey) or with plastic beads. Here I have made eyes with white 5mm plastic beads.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">First the beads are set into a small piece of clay to keep them stationary while working. I am using a basic superglue (you can use a superglue accelerator to speed up drying time) and some steel floristry wire.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Next I have used a white and pearlised blue nail varnish to paint the iris of the eye using a needle and a very small amount. I have painted these using a magnifying headset. When dry, the pupil is added with a little black acrylic paint.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">One of my collaborative projects is with Kev Clarke, a second year student at Hertfordshire University on the Model Making and Special Effect degree course. The original brief for the project with reference pictures can be found here:-</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Good progress has been made on this prop. Firstly the carriage was designed in 3d in Rhino, a computer design package similar to Solidworks:-</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Each part was designed to fit together and in 1:12th scale. The parts were then cut up so that they could be 3d printed separately.</span><br />
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