Week 23

I suck at blogging now. Oh god

These were my V-Day cards I gave to my classmates!

And my boyfriend gave me real flowers!!! :)

They have flowers and Ivy that is going to grow on my desk <3

For my Chiodo assignment we had to put our puppets  in poses but we all misunderstood ( We/I thought we were supposed to tell a story in poses but he actually just wanted nice poses to show off the puppet)

We made berets in Miniature Patterns 

and My Toy Theater Diarama:

Lately I have felt really unmotivated, I think it's because I spent a ton of time on my stop-mo puppet and hate it!!! So I took the head off and painted it but it didn't help so I put one of my twiggy heads on top.  It has really bummed me out.  I need to find my motivation again.  I am really missing home and my cats right now :(

I feel like i'm not doing enough work!!! Even though I make all these small things a week I feel like I should be doing more :(

ambar

Week 22

I now have a desk in the Butler Building!

(oh and I had my calendar on January for about a week now and was getting all my days/dates confused)

The weeks are going by so fast I can't even remember what I have been doing lately.  Tomorrow my stop-mo film "Bored Girl" will be screened at the Bijou thanks to my friend Bertha who told me about the "Mi Gente" screening where they will be showing work of Hispanic/all Latin students work.  And they put me right after Quique, the best stop-mo guy here dammit! (and spelled my name wrong, and it was a 1:00 min film but 4! but thanks!)

We had 1 week to make an armature in Chiodo's Stop-Mo Direction and Performance class, and 1 week to fabricate it. Our first assignment was a pose test, no less than 10 pics, to tell a story with your puppet (no animating just keyframing) 

Here are a few pics of my armature/puppet.

In my Miniature Patterns class we are building a puppet piece by piece and eventually are going to make the clothes for it.  This week we started building the head here's mine in progress:

Next week we are going to make Hats!

This is my test for my Alternative Stop-mo where we had to bring in a block of ice to melt.  I used candles, drops of wax, and gummy bears.

Oh yeah!  Me, my roommate and a few others bought tickets for this!

It sold out within 2 mins and luckily my fast bidding ebay skills paid off!

ambar

Week 20 & 21

I need to blog something!  I took  Mime Class Level 1 that has changed my life! Hopefully I'll be able to take Level 2 if it lands on a good day.

My schedule for this semester is bigger than last..

I also went to this last week at Cinefamily that was amazing!

and the Single Wing Turquoise Bird show at UCLA

All my classes this semester are great.  I have to make a new puppet for Chiodos class, a small Peep Show for Toy Theater, a "last" which is a hard shoe that goes inside a shoe for Miniature Patterns out of clay (for a puppet shoe), MY 3 headed puppet, some readings, and am doing a strata-cut Ice Block for Alternative Stop-Mo that we will be filming next week.

This semester is going way better than last, and I really need to get on my home and film!

ambar

Week 19

Week 19 I can't even remember what i've done.

This happened:

Week 19 has been spent me shining heads and starting on the eyes. Will post pics soon, but right now there's not too much to show except for extremely smooth puppet heads that look and feel pretty nice.

I am starting on the eyes and re did the body so many times I stopped and am gonna wait for an expert Chiodo opinion in class Thurs.

Class sign up went great but they screwed up my schedule! Will post once that gets resolved.

I decided not to work today because I need a BREAK.  But I am going to this tonight:

I wish I had more to post but I can't keep posting pictures of heads! And i'm going crazy working on them non-stop but I will have my schedule soon.  Classes start Tuesday and I already have a homework assignment.


ambar

Week 18

Week 18 has mainly been WORK WORK WORK and me with Krispy Kreme cravings.  I've been spening a fortune on supplies and have so much more to do! I will explain Week 18 with these photos:

 Finally glued the heads together, and filled the cracks with epoxy. 

  

Then Sanded down to a nice smooth unnoticeable seam.

  I did a "test" armature because I screwed up and made it too thin so decided to start from scratch and added waaay more wire since the puppet does have to hold up 3 heads. You can see the armature on the table and me watching the Twiggy Biography for inspiration.

Even though my week has mainly been every day from 2 pm - 12 working in Butler, I have been having LA, Krispy Kreme, Sushi, Smore making fun this winter break, and I bought myself a present:

God I love Celebrity Deathmatch!!! Next week should be finishing the armature, making an eye mold, replaceable eyelashes and lips.  I wanted to get this done before school, but I think i'll still be in fabrication mode sadly. I want to start filming this asap!

ambar