Thursday, 27 February 2025

Looey has a Robocop in his Garden!

Hello,

In response to a recent query about Robocop figures, we do have one!

He's driving a ruined car on our entryway with a lot of plants - courtesy of my good wife.


You can also see our Home Cinema in the background!

The car is a set dressing model I made for an Alex Proyas Adidas Claw TVC backing the late 90s.

I've included some on set snaps of the set up and the car, along with a suitably distressed Barbie's Jaguar! 

The Claw commercial actually contained a lot of visual elements that would see full fruition soon afterwards in Dark City. A film that would prove to be the highlight on my film miniatures career.


How is my puppet film going you asked? 

I'm working on a pre-viz film which is allowing me to get a good feel for the finished product. 

On the screen are some of the 200 plus hand-drawn elements needed to make an animated version of the final story. You can also see some rough pencilled storyboards and a toy version of my puppet heroine in her Ancient Egyptian phase!


The work is hugely satisfying, but very time consuming. I worked all yesterday afternoon and produced just 60 seconds of finished screen time!

Keep on bloggin' 
 Looey

5 comments:

  1. 60 seconds of screen time in just an afternoon ?
    That's a hell of an animation shooting rate Looey.
    I've spent days, even weeks, to end up with a whole minute of finished footage !

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  2. Paul Adams from New Zealand2/28/2025 5:03 am

    Your very own portable jungle.
    Good luck with the animation project. Way beyond me.

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  3. A labour of love Looey! 'Dark City' was quite a cool film, I always confuse it with 'City of lost children' though.

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  4. Animation is a lost art - keep up the good work! Good to see anybody is doing real animation these days. SFZ

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  5. Awesome work Looey! It looks to be very tedious and methodical and challenging - yet rewarding. When finished, will it be posted anywhere (like Y'allTube)?

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