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
60 seconds of screen time in just an afternoon ?
ReplyDeleteThat'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 !
Your very own portable jungle.
ReplyDeleteGood luck with the animation project. Way beyond me.
A labour of love Looey! 'Dark City' was quite a cool film, I always confuse it with 'City of lost children' though.
ReplyDeleteAnimation is a lost art - keep up the good work! Good to see anybody is doing real animation these days. SFZ
ReplyDeleteAwesome work Looey! It looks to be very tedious and methodical and challenging - yet rewarding. When finished, will it be posted anywhere (like Y'allTube)?
ReplyDeleteAs with so much of my life of dreams, I need "content" first! I've screened the first pre-viz which clocks in at exactly 10 minutes. Based on notes from Marilyn and my Spitfire builder/collaborator, I'm working on a rewrite that will improve focus on the story elements.
DeleteWho'd have thought you could have elements like WW2 planes and Henefer's Book of the Dead, in the same puppet film!
I forgot to add, I'll be showing it to the Producer/Director of Greystanes as a first step once I have something to show..
ReplyDeleteSounds utterly amazing Looey! And there's us thinking you'd retired! Ha ha!
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