Tuesday 26th of May
My goals/to do list for this week
Maquette of the lobster with functioning legs and tail mechanisms
Maquette of the woodlouse
Maquette of the Butterfly, try with silk paper wings and less support
Technical and Design drawings for Woodlouse and Lobster
Film an Edit Butterfly outside to see how it works
Today was a good productive day. I started the day of by making a plan for the week coming as there is a deadline on Friday for out sketchbooks and finalized designs to be able to move forward.
I started with the lobster. Last week I had worked out a possible leg mechanism, but It was only possible for one pair. I have many challenges to come for this puppet. Dik, during our tutorial seemed to say it was quite a challenge. So far I have figured out a potential leg and tail mechanism. But of course, I need to try those out in maquette form to see if they could work. I want to be able to use and puppeteer this lobster from above with two puppeteers (as shown in the drawing in the top right corner).
Still a lot of questions on this one. How to mechanism the legs so that I get a smooth movement, how can I have a pinching movement of the claw from above, and how is the head attached to the body if it needs to move ? I am very excited to really delve into this puppet. As the other puppets are going to be easier to make, I am very happy about really focusing on this lobster in terms of mechanisms, but also in color and texture.
Secondly, I worked on the woodlouse.
I have already made a pretty sturdy paper maquette of this one, but wanted to play around with materials a bit more. I realized that instead of shaping my woodlouse, I could use material that already existed, such as a plastic bottle. Cut in half and in little pieces, a plastic bottle is perfect for the woodlouse. I have decided that it will distance itself a little bit from the naturalism, and that I do not want to hide completely the bottle shape and texture. Talking about texture, it adds a lot of it, as it is quite glossy. The woodlouse itself is sometimes transparents and glossy and this works quite well. I worked on the drawings then made a little maquette to see if a plastic milk bottle could work. the picture is not that good as it is transparent material, but I used the exact same technique as the paper maquette I had made a few weeks ago. And I am happy with the results.
During our meeting with the group, we mainly discussed notes from the weekend about the movie and technical things, such as green screens and clips ets.
A good start of the week.
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