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Hollow, Anyone There?

Animated Short for Animation WildCard Episode 24 Spooktacular

Process and up close photos of details on the set and puppets. Skeleton puppet is made of wire and felt, Red is a ball join armature with felt.

Full set-without side walls

Full set-without side walls

Crochet pumpkins

Crochet pumpkins

Puppets and props

Puppets and props

3D printed knives

3D printed knives

Test table props

Test table props

Red ball joint puppet

Red ball joint puppet

Mid-process #1

Mid-process #1

Mid-process #2

Mid-process #2

Mid-process #3

Mid-process #3

Test puppets

Test puppets

Animation puppet test #1

Animation puppet test #1

Animation puppet test #2

Animation puppet test #2

Animation puppet test #3

Animation puppet test #3

Ghost Props

Ghost Props

Final ending Shot

Final ending Shot

Potential

Fabrication Process

Photos and videos of the process making a puppet with adjustable LED glowing eyes and three different sets for this animation.

Final Bedroom

Final Bedroom

This is the bedroom compeltely set up ready for shooting

Bedroom detail

Bedroom detail

Up close of bed with crocheted blanket and stuffy with details

Puppet with LED lights

Puppet with LED lights

The lights were adjustable in brightness and were incased in a 3D printed head covered in felt

Head removed

Head removed

This is the light without the head covering

Desk Chair

Desk Chair

Rolling desk chair

Art Supplies

Art Supplies

Minature sketch book and penicls

Desk

Desk

General desk set up

Bed

Bed

Crochet minature turlte stuffy on bed

Snow Globe

Snow Globe

The snow globes were made with resin

Snow Globes

Snow Globes

Bedroom in process

Bedroom in process

Book Case

Book Case

Tunnel

Tunnel

Tunnel scene shot using camera track

Vale

Fabrication Process-July 2022

These are process photos taken during the production of Vale. Showing the process of set building and puppet designing.

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Heart set

Heart set

Rotatable heart set

Heart set  (inside)

Heart set (inside)

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Heart set in progress 1

Heart set in progress 1

Heart set in progress 2

Heart set in progress 2

Heart set in progress 3

Heart set in progress 3

Heart set in progress 4

Heart set in progress 4

Heart set in progress 5

Heart set in progress 5

Heart set in progress 6

Heart set in progress 6

Heart set base

Heart set base

Solus puppet

Solus puppet

Solus replaceable faces

Solus replaceable faces

Solus replaceable face

Solus replaceable face

Hardowork

Fabrication Process-April 2023

This animation was made for Animation Wild Card Episode 22 Season 4

Turlte Puppets

Turlte Puppets

These puppets are crocheted around wire armatures

Turtle puppet 1

Turtle puppet 1

crochet base

Turtle puppet 2

Turtle puppet 2

Wire armature, crochet around armature

Turtle puppet 3

Turtle puppet 3

Sewing on limb and stuffing puppet along the way

Set 1

Set 1

Kinetic sand was used in the animation process

Set 2

Set 2

turtle eggs also crocheted

Set 3

Set 3

Set 4

Set 4

Set 5

Set 5

water animation made using crocheted waves

Turtle puppets

Turtle puppets

Lucid Dreams

Fabrication Process - May 2021

Lucid Dreams was my senior thesis from Maryland Institute College of Art.

Set

Set

Shot of set with lighting

Set Design

Set Design

A general sketch to get idea of set color scheme and style

Base of cavern

Base of cavern

Cavern set made from half cut cylinder and papermache

Cavern set

Cavern set

After adding papermache, add variety of objects

Cavern set process

Cavern set process

Hands

Hands

Multple hands were made using different process, all had wire base

Hand

Hand

one of the various hands

Bed

Bed

Hand sewn bedding with silhouette cut bed

Stainglass window 1

Stainglass window 1

Silhouette cut stainglass window

Stainglass window 2

Stainglass window 2

Using medium gel on clear acetate to create an old stainglass windw effect

Stone floor

Stone floor

Using paper mache and cardboard used to make flooring

Base set

Base set

Bedroom behind the scenes

Bedroom behind the scenes

Close up bed

Close up bed

Close up bed 2

Close up bed 2

Oringal character design

Oringal character design

The orginal sketch of the main character Ophelia

Wire Armature

Wire Armature

Wire armature used for puppet, replaceable arm and legs

Character Head

Character Head

Silicone head with wax thread hair

Base Sculpt

Base Sculpt

Orginal sculpt of character head

Head cast

Head cast

Using silicone to create a cast of head to create multiple heads

Dress

Dress

Hand sewn dress

Puppet

Puppet

Silicone based puppet with wax thread hair

Ophelia

Ophelia

Thumbelina

Fabrication Process- April 2023

Thumbelina was made for my final project at Stop-motion 2 with Aardman Academy.

Behind the scene Thumbelina

Behind the scene Thumbelina

Thumbelina

Thumbelina

Puppet is crocheted with wire armature

Thumbelina with mouth

Thumbelina with mouth

Felt mouth

Thumbelina mouth

Thumbelina mouth

Set of felt mouths used to animate lip sync

Thumbelina

Thumbelina

Crocheted puppets

Variety of Crocheted pupepts

Chihiro

Chihiro

Puppet based off character from Spirited Away

Thumbelina

Thumbelina

Bunny

Bunny

Winter bunny with hand sewn chair

Turtles

Turtles

Baby turtle

Baby turtle

Space bunny

Space bunny

Unname me fabrication process

Finished puppet

Finished puppet

Life size paper puppet

Puppet build 1

Puppet build 1

Board paper used to make puppet

Puppet build 2

Puppet build 2

Joints made moveable by wire coils

Puppet build 3

Puppet build 3

Heart puppet 1

Heart puppet 1

Heart made movebale with different pieces

Heart puppet 2

Heart puppet 2

Heart puppet 3

Heart puppet 3

Puppet build 4

Puppet build 4

Inside puppet padded with fabric and yarn

Puppet build 5

Puppet build 5

Chest able to be opened

Puppet build 6

Puppet build 6

Puppet build 7

Puppet build 7

Interchangeable fingers, hands and arms

Puppet build 8

Puppet build 8

Puppet build 9

Puppet build 9

Puppet build 10

Puppet build 10

Travel frabrication process

Travel set

Travel set

Set base

Set base

Base of set was made of wire, paper mache and wood

Puppet base

Puppet base

Wire frame armature with fabric

Puppet in chair

Puppet in chair

Set 1

Set 1

Set 2

Set 2

Set 3

Set 3

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IMG_1663.JPG

Camera set up

Camera set up

Idea sketch 1

Idea sketch 1

Idea sketch 2

Idea sketch 2

Idea sketch 3

Idea sketch 3

Symmetry fabrication process

Puppet

Puppet

Sculpted from clay, wire armature, wax thread hair

Armature

Armature

wire armature, magnet feet for tie downs

Set 1

Set 1

Set 2

Set 2

Set was made to be able to rotate

Set 3

Set 3

Set 4

Set 4

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