Well I completely forgot about this blog because its been a very busy holiday and term due to many side projects/societies i'm a part of, but thats not very important. So lets play a little bit of catchup!
Now last time I put a post up was about the prop making. A lot more naturally progressed and it turned out to be what is mine personally, the best animation we did. It turned out really well. But I'll go through it all in the correct order. For the soap we changed the idea of a square of paper with the face on it to individual pieces. Like different eyes, mouth movements etc. Before I post a photo showing you what i'm on about. I'm just gonna talk about the sets as you'll be seeing it all in the same photos.
The stage was originally planned to be made out of wood, but we found it was a pain to get the resources, there wasn't room for us in the Glass centre besides a little corner. However while I was sat in our studio drawing it out, I realised that there was a load of cardboard and these weird table looking like polystyrene things near me that Ros said we could use. So I cut out two pieces of smooth cardboard (you know the strong nice stuff, not the flimsy stuff) that was the length of the table like things and used strong glue to stick the cardboard and polystyrene together. This made the stage. I then cut out two side pieces of foam and painted it black. I then the same again for the top of the stage roof. I then got some black cardboard and attached Velcro to it so we can remove the back for camera angles. Then I just made a fancy front for the stage. To get a curtain I got a bit of wire and pushed it through the foam to get two wire hooks on both top ends of the stage. I then got a piece of dowel that sat on both the wire and found some really nice red cloth that would act as a curtain. I glued the top of the cloth so it had a place where the dowel can slide in. Put the dowel on the hooks and the stage was done.
The desert environment was made out of the same foam stuff I used on the stage but painted and staggered to give it a sense of depth. We made a tray thing out of cardboard and this was used to hold the sand. Anyway rather than try and explain this, I think its better if you just see it.
Going back you can see how the characters ended up. Vanessa had this amazing idea of using string wrapped about wire to make the hands and arms. It worked really well and in the final cut you can see how this ended up
