Week 26

Week 26 has been me trying to be productive and getting sick :(

But in good news, my films will be showcased at SXSW in the Austin School of Film Screening! Hooray!

I also went to this screening with my bf in LA, then ate at a deli afterwards that had this amazing ceiling

Here is a photo summary of my week:

We made bodies in Mini Patterns so we can hopefully start making clothes! We've only been working on hats lately

Yes, MORE tiny hands. I'm a perfectionist and want the smallest cutest animatable hands

Before:

After:

Had to repair my puppets arm, and I thought i'd post this for (Matthew) because I think Chiodo is a genius! The wire going through my 2 pieces of brass were breaking so Chiodo told me to wrap the same wire over the brass, then make it go straight over the wire, then back to wrapping it on the other piece of brass.  You then super glue the wire on the brass, then put Steel Epoxy over it.

Here is my twiggy puppet in progress: 

Okay, and last here is my Chiodo test of the week. The assignment was to have your puppet pick up something heavy.  Not too proud of this one :/

and on a final note....

RIP Davy Jones, my 2nd row seat to your concert will never get filled, but the hours of Monkee episodes and songs will keep me company

<3

Week 24 & 25

I spent the past 2 weeks attempting to make a decent looking puppet since I hated how my last one came out! I've been experimenting with Balloon Latex to make hands and the legs

Tiny Hands

Made 3 armatures in 1 week cause i'm insane

MORE tiny hands!

My To do list plus my DVD of films I am having screened at SXSW in the Austin School of Film showcase! Hooray! I love screening at SXSW every year. Thank you ASoF!!!

This was my Chiodo test. We had to have our puppet waiting, then gets hit and knocked over

The Chiodo test for the week before was to have your puppet waiting but mine was bad I refuse to put it up! Chiodo always saids don't blame the puppet but I swear my puppet was extremely hard to move but now that I fixed it it's pretty nice to animate.

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