Good boy film

Hello everyone, it has been a long time in the making but finally the 'Good Boy' film is finished.
I will be adding some making of and behind the scenes photos and videos later on but for now please enjoy the finished product.
It has been a fun and moving project to have worked on and I am really pleased with how it has come out.
Thank you to everyone who has helped me along the way (even just to give me photos of their dogs for the end credits) and to Kelly Angel for giving me the opportunity to bring her original comic to the screen.

Please enjoy.

Good boy film continued

Hello all.
It has been a little while since my last update, but the animation for the good boy film (based on the comic strip by Kelly Angel) is finally finished.

It's been a really fun project to work on, It was such a wonderful story, very funny and quite emotional at times and It was a piece I am glad to have animated.
The work isn't over yet though, I still have editing and sound and other various finishing touches to work on for the next month or so until it is complete.
So check back soon and hopefully the film will be here waiting for you to feast your eyes upon.

Until then, here are some stills from the film and some making of shots.
Enjoy.

Good boy film

Hello

It has been a little while since my last update so I thought I'd get right to it and let you know what I've been up to.

My latest animated project at the moment is a short film based on the amazing and very moving comic strip 'Good boy' created by Kelly Angel.
If you have not read this then I urge you to do so now by following this link:
Good boy comic

After reading this comic I knew almost at once that this was a film I wanted to make.
With Kelly's approval I began working on the film and have been doing so now for the past couple of months.

Original model prototype 

In summery the film is about the life of a very happy dog.
In the film I am trying to follow the comic as closely as possible, using the frames of the comic as reference for each scene.

Comic panel and film still

The film is now over half way finished and if all goes well will hopefully be complete by mid August.
Keep your eye out for it and I will update again soon.
Until then, here are some making of pictures for you all to feast your eyes on. Enjoy.

Big Baby Madness: Making the baby!

Hello everyone, if you've been following my posts, you'll know that i've been working on a short project for the monthly competition the 11 second club.
I'm doing the animation in two sections, the mother and the baby. Since the baby's part is shorter I thought I'd do him first to get him out the way. I've finally gotten around to puppet making and sorting out his animation.
I documented the process as I went to show my progress.
Here's how I've been getting on!

Starting to build the baby's head with mixed plasticine 

Here's his finished head, all that's missing are his eyebrows which will be added later

Some replacement mouths

Building up the baby's body

There was no need for legs as he would only be shown from waist upwards.

I then built some simple props for the animation:

Some building block toys 

A cot for the baby with bee design

Here's my final set up, a simple set with a simple puppet ready to animate

Here he is, mid shot, in his whole 3 second appearance 

Next up is the mother and her part of the set. Hopefully it won't take me too long, there's only a week and a half left of the 11 second clubs deadline.
I'll keep you all updated as to whether I succeed or not!

Thanks for checking out my blog!!!!

The Obsession

Okay, i already have a blog on this so i'll keep it brief.

For my final year of university i created a film entitled The Obsession (film below)


The Obsession from Kyle Bennett on Vimeo.

It took about a year and a half as i started making sets and puppets during the summer.

It was my biggest film to date, you can see the making of and other behind the scenes stuff on The Obsession blog: http://stopmotionhorrorobsessionfilm.blogspot.co.uk/

The film was first shown at our university degree show:

And then was shown at flip festival:

It got a big applause and i was very happy to see it on the big screen.

Hopefully my next big project will be even more successful than this one.

keep on reading, more posts up soon!

Kyle

It came from stoke canal!

The video above shows my fake trailer for the film: 'It came from stoke canal'
This was a really fun project to work on as i got to combine live action and stop motion in one short trailer.

I really enjoyed working with the actors on this and even through in a cameo myself.

Still from the trailer

I wanted to give this trailer the same feel, the really over the top plot and exaggerated acting.

I had worked in green screen before, most notably me playing air guitar with a stop motion punk:

Green screen punk and me from Kyle Bennett on Vimeo.



The green screening process was relatively simple compared to my kraken film, but it was enjoyable none the less.


The animating side of it was also fun, i got to create a nice big kraken puppet using research from old horror movies.

My kraken puppet

Here are some of my initial tests:

Octopus test 01 from Kyle Bennett on Vimeo.

Untitled from Kyle Bennett on Vimeo.

Octopus scratches head from Kyle Bennett on Vimeo.

Animating the tentacle

The picture above shows the bridge and tentacle on the green screen, it was animated and then the green screen was taken out and the film was placed over the live action footage.

I hope you enjoyed this post, i know i enjoyed making the film.

More soon

Kyle

 

It came from stoke canal complete film trailer from Kyle Bennett on Vimeo.

Pub set

I realised in my last post that i didn't really explain the pub set that my latex figure was destroying so i thought that would be the topic for today:

So to start i took a painting by Van Gogh:

 

I then built the painting as a the set out of foam board to see how it would look and to get the scale right

 

I then built the set out of wood, foam board and paint, i tried to make the set look a lot like a painting and i think i achieved this very successfully.

And here is the painting and the set together so you can see how it works.
That's all for today really, but here is the link for the film again if you missed it:



Jabawoki film from Kyle Bennett on Vimeo.