A few pictures from old projects

Basically what it says on the tin.
I found a couple of pictures and thought I'd post them up here, this is my general style of creating characters.

Drunken elephant

Punk rocker for a green screened film

Homeless man

Homeless man in nice place

Mascot entry for an animation club at my university

This is all for today, more soon.

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.

Foam latex puppet

Okay so i wanted to show you the first foam latex puppet i ever made.
It was for a university project in second year (now graduated)

It was quite fun to make but i wish I'd created a better armature.

Here's what happened.

I first created my puppet out of Plasticine with a very basic wire armature.
I then took a big wooden board and covered it in clay, i placed the plasticine figure on top of it.

I then built up with the clay all around the puppet so that i could cover it in plaster to make a mould for the foam latex.

I then built up walls using blocks of wood and sealed the edges.

 

I then filled the box with plaster and waited for it to set.

 

I then had a plaster mould.
I took out the Plasticine and did the same thing for the other half of the puppet

I then put my custom built armature inside the mould
This was then pressed together with the other half of the mould and foam latex was injected into it and cooked in a special oven.

I used the foam latex puppet to destroy a pub set that i build based on a painting by Van Gogh.

The link for the film can be seen here: https://vimeo.com/24355426