Behind the Scenes

Here's some "behind the scenes" photos of the construction and animation of my Jack puppet:

A Few Production Stills

These are some fun photos I took during the three days of shooting I did for my final animation with this puppet. If I thought the puppet was in an interesting pose, I would just stop animating to photograph him. There's also some of me animating. I really like those ones. Thank you camera for having a self-timer.

Jack - From Drawing to Puppet

This is the puppet I created for the advanced stop-motion class I took from Teresa Drilling this past winter. He is a little boy named is Jack. Here, you can see my original drawing/blueprint of Jack, the armature in various stages, and then a turnaround of the puppet when it was nearing completion:

Not-So-Undisclosed Santa

So, my good friends and I decided to do a Secret Santa together. Except, it was only secret for about 30 minutes. We wanted to know who each other got too badly to keep it a secret. I got my friend, David (whose blog you can check out via a link on this page - David Talaski). David likes Pugs a lot, so I wanted to draw him and myself as if we were Pugs. David is wearing the hat, and I am screaming at him. This drawing fits our personalities quite well, if you know us. The David Pug is supposed to look shocked, but he also ended up looking kind of dumb because of his expression. That was not my intention, but I think it makes it even a bit more humorous. I can't wait to give this drawing to David today!

Pen and colored pencils