Wednesday, 14 July 2010

This is a test to see what an above shot would look like. In the end I had to try and make the buildings appear less curved.
This is a 1:42nd scale set I made of the larger street set. This set was used to shoot the scene looking down from the top of the buildings onto the road below. It was made at this scale because the model car I used in this scene was 1:42nd scale.


Ah! I nearly forgot about all the other sets I made. Damn. Never mind, right, back to sets. These are a few shots of the interior set of the Jewish Cellist's room. The walls are simply painted MDF and the floors are balsa wood and the corrugated iron is simply cardboard.
Finished 1:7th scale puppet can be seen in the first production still.
Finished silicone head for the 1:7th scale Jewish puppet. I added a different colour silicone layer in the eye sockets to add a new dimension of light and shade.

Now the 1.7th scale Jewish Puppet. This as I said before is the puppet that had to appear to play the cello and as such, it was the only one of my puppets to have a ball and socket armature. This I bought from John Wright Armatures. A ball and socket armature allowed me a much more realistic performance and more control over the animation. The armature as you can see from the photos was then covered with a skin of memory foam and latex.