Now In full production!!

I left college last Friday with the finally grade of DDD (distinction, distinction, distinction) the most I can get on BTEC course. So now I have been in full production on Viv & Mandy for a full week.
All this week I have been making a set of two houses and the street that are at the right scale of Viv & Mandy.

This is the largest set I have made as to date, the set is not yet completed as it taken such a long time to do but will be bye the middle of next week.

Here are some images shows how I have made this set.

I got the wood and marked out were all the parts of set will go and were the holes that are need to fix the puppets to the set will go.

From there I went on to add the long over grown grass that would be outside one on the house. To do this I had to sit there and glue in the grass blade by blade I don’t know how many are there but as u can see from the image there a lot.
 

From that a started making the two houses for the street, one will have a big role in film and has to have a working door and be decorated on the inside, the other one is there for close ups and wide shots so not as much detail on the door and the inside is needed.

I used the same wood as I did for the street, marked out and cut out the wood into the shape of the houses. As you can see one house has the full outer house cut and the second one only has the first floor cut out.
I then glued on the sides and painted the houses.

To make the door so it fully works I nailed in a small set of hinges to the door its self and nailed in the he other side into the door frame on the inside of the house so it would work as a reel door.

I then painted the doors on the houses, the second house dose not need to open so its only wood gulled the house. In cut and panted strips of wood and uses them for the window and door frames on the houses inside and out.

For the house that will be used a lot in the story I decorated hen inside of it with wall paper and skirting boards, there will be more details added when the set I glued to the street set.

With houses now completed it was time to glue them to the street set and do all the final touches with paint and set design. To the insides of the hoses and the street it’s self. These are not completed and will be finessed off next and I will begin animation on this very large set.

So come back in 2 weeks time when I will do a new post and see were I am in the production of the new Viv & Mandy.

Not long now!

Its not long now till I finish college I’m in my final week and very busy trying to get all my work up to the best standard I can as of now I have got 6 distinctions out of 18 unites hopping to get 4 more by the end of week.
As for Viv & Mandy I have been trying my best to get some work on it on in my free time. I got the shot the post man on the full street set completed and now I am spending my time making a new full scale house set from scratch which is taking longer then I first fort.
For much more information check back in two weeks for a new update I would have left college and will be working on the new Viv & Mandy full time.

Had my week off animating now back at college

Had my week off animating now back at college

Had a grate week off college no only did I go to Lego land which is were 7 years ago I got the Lego studios kit started off my whole animation film making. But I also got 7 seconds of good quality animation completed.

The week started off making a small scale boy and girl that would play out on the street in front of there house with a ball. After I had finished making the puppets they when striate into the work shop and animated them.

The next day I rebuilt complete the Hogsmeat Lane which it massive and takes up all most the enterer Workshop and is very hard to set the camera up on, set lights up on, movie around and to animate on. I set up the set in the opposite direction as I waned to shoot the van driving down the lane to the messy house, with the boy and girl playing on the street and a man mowing his lawn. All the animation form that angel was shot in day.

After all the shots of the van driving the lane were completed I spent the morning rebuilding the street set right direction. I did the so I can get the shots that will open the animation of the postman walking down the street.

2 days later I went back into the work shop and animated the first shots of the post man walking down the street. I had to stop animating halfe way thought the next shot as the heat in work shop got to much for the models and they started to fall apart.

I plan on finishing those shots in the next week or two so check back in two weeks time when I will up date this blog with more new and images from the production of my new Viv & Mandy film.

Will be getting back to full time animating soon

Will be getting back to full time animating soon

I am still working hard a way with college work so not had any time to animate. But from the 31st of may I will have a week off so I will be making sets and animating as much as I can.

Although I have been busy which college work I have still been doing my best to network. I have been Twetting Peter lord the cofounder of Aardman animations, been chatting to a animation producer from America and I got a very nice email form the world classes animator Barry Purves.

And iv been doing bits of concept art for Viv & Mandy

That’s me all up to date will be back in 2 weeks time will lots more up dates and the production of Viv & Mandy

keeping the production on Viv & Mandy going

I have been very busy with college work but I have still managed to keep the production on Viv & Mandy going. I have animated a wide shot on the street of a man mowing his lawn and van parking up.

This week I also completed making the new boy and girl puppets that will have a small part in bulling up the mystery of the old woman’s house to Viv & Mandy.

The script is very near completion as of now it is 14 pages and a 2429 worlds long. It is shaping up well and I’m confident it will fill my expiations on how I wan this animation to be.

Check back agene in 2 weeks time for a new update and news on the production of Viv & Mandy

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