Goldberry & Tom Bombadil

Blobimals

Watercolour blobs with added pencil and white gouache details

PDP film project 2012: "Poop"

Here it is. Again, sorry about the watermark.

Finished puppet and set

Finished it JUST in time for shooting (when my heliumFrog program decided to screw me over big time, so I had to download a random trial version which put a horrid "TRIAL PROGRAM" watermark on top of it.)

More Build-up: Armature

Made of Epoxy putty and 1.5mm aluminium wire

Build-up puppets: Liquid rubber and such

Some photos of the long and tedious process of making a build-up puppet with foam and rubber (AND surprisingly large amounts of contact glue and epoxy adhesives - I'd recommend me a place with good ventilation if I decide to do this again some day)

I owe a lot of this sticky mess to Nick Hilligoss' awesome stop-motion puppet tutorials here.

I've finished the project now..

But I thought I'd still put up all my work-in-progress anyway. I decided on the design a bit late, so I made a quick model sheet:

Medieval Goblin

So, I think I've decided on the final design. Went from evil towards a more pathetic look:

PDP project

or "Professional Development Practise". Either way, it's time to start working on my self-chosen summer term project. After 3 months of 2d brain drain I decided to focus on puppets, which should (hopefully!) end in 10+ seconds of animation. Here are some of my first conceptual development designs for my character: