When I first began to show a real interest in animation, I had put a lot of thought into a zombie animation that I wanted to make. Although I had no plasticine at the time, I had wrote a short script and drew a few brief sketches. The character which I wanted to create was a punk zombie. I had made a created an opening scene for my as portfolio in year 12 which was extremely successful. I loved the whole process of research, planning, production and evaluation. I thought long and hard about how I could animate my character in a zombie. I found some clay that was being used in art and created a punk zombie. Although I knew that I couldn't successfully animate the zombie as clay turns solid, I made a prototype of how I would like my zombie to look.
MY FINAL ZOMBIE :)
This is the hill which I am making for my animation set. I made the hill out of chicken wire which I shaped into the hill shape. I then cut lots of strips of mod-rock and dipped the bits individually in water and covered the chicken wire in strands of mod-rock. After the mod-rock had went solid, I cut really thin strands of mod-rock and twisted them to make the textured hill from The Nightmare before Christmas.
These are pillars which I am making to put either side of the gate. These are made from blue foam which I got from the technology department at school. The technician used an electric hack saw to cut the blue foam into the correct shape. Before painting the pillars, I had to paint the blue foam with emulsion. I have left them in school drying and I am sure they will be dry by tomorrow :)
These are the gates which I have made for the entrance to my set. I have made the gates from wire and florist wire. I think the gates were the most difficult to make as they took the most time as they were really tricky to handle.
For my current animation project, I am creating an animation set very similar to Halloween town in The Nightmare before Christmas. I started to create a hill with the signature gate that we see open at the beginning of the movie. Tomorrow, I am going to make the walls that sit either side of the gates. I made the hill using chicken-wire and mud-rock. The gate is made of florist wire and normal metal wire. Will get some photos up tomorrow!
This is a screen shot of my most recent animation 'Fruit or treat'. I was inspired by the stop motion animated children's television series, 'OOglies'. I bought the fruit and googly eyes and made small halloween costumes. I created a small set out of cardboard and black paper. I made the box as dark as I possibly could.
