A Head

I've made a head!
Currently I am waiting for the mould to dry so that I can build up layers of liquid latex in order to make a  skin like texture; which is how I made the octopus...

Keeping the blog up to date...

Ok so I don't have time right now but here's a picture of Poe-in-a-room.

I got some silly lil vids to upload and some more pictures. So for now heres an awesome LINK.

Papier Mache House and Poe

I am currently obsessed with Julie Arkell's papier mache dolls and nostalgic collections.
Everything I make will be involved in my animation.

Today...
Charity shop bought plastic doll house covered in papier mache.

Poe armature covered in papier mache and painted with black ink.

Matt's Birthday Present

When I have no money I am motivated to make something special for someone's birthday...

My first attempt at armature making

The first (little one) took about 5 hours, the second about 20 minutes after the workshop guy helped me break down a rather complex tutorial.

The second (taller) one is a million times more practical :P

College 8th day of October 2010

Into my second college day of year 3. 

Its great that I can now get on and make some 3D bits for my sets, here's what I've done so far...

Entomologists - needs a chair and a little busy man working away.

Apothecary - Needs a lot of work, will be leaving surround black though to give it that Dogville look. 

Fairground - Not too sure about this at all, I love the circus and fairgrounds, I think that was the key

factor in deciding to make one, now I'm not so sure it's gonna fit in with the rest, I may have to tone down the colour a little to get back on track with the Burtonesque   

Poes Room - Doesnt need much work, although I might actually make the bed instead of this hideous cardboard cut out, it all depends on my photoshop skills...

The Church - I came across a magazine article in the week about a puppetry duo who make their sets and puppets from bizarre found objects, in one picture they had used an old suitcase which looked so Burtonesque that I had to have it! The closest I got to an old suitcase was this water stained make up bag that turned out to be the perfect size! I think I need a bigger cross though and one that isn't Celtic.

Now time for some computer-manipulation-magic...

Made in London

My favourite animal...

There are a number of things I can't draw.... on demand, myself or whales.
Finally I've drawn a whale worthy of a post!!!

He's soo beautiful! But I have bouts of Bathophobia so I'll probably never get to see one up close :(

Lego Birthday

Happy Birthday to me...

Circus Animals

Inspired by my new favourite book 'Altered Art Circus!'

What I see....

Poe is making me see everything in miniature! I can't help but look at the most random of objects and turn it into an apothecary/entomologists/church/town square.... the list goes on....

All these items were bought at Charity shops and car boot sales over the past week...

A barbie shelf... I see an apothecary (originally turquoise; I added the brown oil paint to give it this Bioshock look)

Battered old wooden pencil sharpeners.... I see a carousel 

Insects in resin... I see entomologists

Plastic animals.... I see circus 

Bell, candle holders, cross, metal plates and glass box... I see a church

Marble and metal ornament... I see a fountain

One day all these random items will be part of a movie set, today they are a-load-of-crap-taking-up-too-much-space!

Sketchbook

EXTRA! EXTRA!

THE FUTURE OF EVOLUTION IS SHORTER LEGS!
Who knew that the diorama setting had so much more to offer!?

Clown...

I don't like clowns, but I like to draw them...

St Catherines Woods and Other Tales

If you go down to the woods today....

I think having a camera helps me to find clues... now all I need is a Sherlock Holmes hat to figure out what they mean...

A dirty mirror and a camera...

I got 6 followers! woooo my head's spinning!

Today I wrote daddy a letter... he's only been asking for a coupla years and lil sis beat me to it so I thought I'd go one better and draw him an ARMY-MEDIC-LEGO-MAN! He's gonna be so proud :P

Once I start I really can't stop... I found this amusing death-come-for-cake birthday card online so I made my own seeing as its my birthday in 6 days. But I didn't do the writing yet...

Then I drew the whole skeleton...

The problem with Poe is that he can sometimes look a little like Hitler, I don't like this picture but I thought I'd add it for comedy value...

And last and certainly least, the random doodle of two doll like persons, I never draw people like this... In fact I don't think I even drew this, it looks like something out of 'All Grown Up' (the Rugrats when they.... all grown up)...

Goodbye my 6 :P

Entomology

An entomologist will be moving in soon...

Poe's stuff

I have been trying to find a dolls house desk template but so far I've had no luck :(

But I did make some other things to go in Poe's room...

Poe's Bedroom

I've got all these crazy notions about how I want my Poe movie to look. For the last few weeks I have been playing around with photoshop to attempt to realise some of these ideas. Today I had a massive breakthrough! With the help of lil sis we began by making this tiny victorian bedroom from a book I have called 'Make Your Own Victorian House'. From there we made our own, slightly bigger version.

This is the result + some special effects added by zeb :D

Shadowing

Diorama aka Tilt-Shift

I've been a fan of the tilt-shift effect for a while now but I've never been that good at getting it right on photoshop. The new camera has a diorama setting! So the tilt-shift effect is applied instantly.

This image was taken from the top of Sand Street Car Park using the diorama filter. It's not amazing but I'm getting there...