Filming - First Attempt

Here is mine and Alice's first attempt, I say first attempt because this time around it didn't turn out the way we thought it would. We didn't have dragonframe on the right settings, and I missed out a few major stages in my puppets walk which made her very jerky. Too jerky for it to be good to look at. So we felt like it had to be done again.

As you can see the speed of the video is incredibly fast, we feel like this is because we didn't have the frames set to 'two's', and you can also notice the was my puppet jerks about.

Story Board

We thought it was best to create some form of storyboard for our short film, so that is what I did. It shows a very rough drawing of the interaction between our characters. And how long we want each scene to be.
It shows my character walking towards the middle of the scene, to then take a double take at Alice's puppet on the floor, my puppet heads over and notices he's injecting himself. So she take the needle and sits on the floor ready to use, while she does this Alice's puppet notices this happening so she stands up and walks away. Each scene lasting 2 seconds.

Painting and Clothing

I worked on creating the skin I had put together on photoshop, it was never going to look the same. I always figured it would look different, due to there being many factors of what could go wrong. Most of her was painted with the peach colour, but I added black in the parts on shadow and white were the lighter parts would be. I also decided to paint pupils on her eyes, where I was going to before. I did this because her eyes felt too alien like. 

The underwear turned out to look a lot bigger than what I wanted, but it was just because the hips on my puppet turned out to be bigger than I intended. Not that it looks bad because of this, Both the ribbon and felt came out looking really nice together. I'm very happy with how it turned out.

Arts and Crafts

I made more detail for my puppet by adding a spin and smoothing her out. I ventured out to a arts and crafts shop and picked up some bits and peices consisting of:

Paint:

• Dark Blue
• White
• Peach
• Black

So I'm able to create her skin colour 

Fabric:

• Patterned ribbon
• Felt (both a turquoise colour)

To maker her underwear, I would use the ribbon to make the straps and decoration on the underwear

Colour Theory

Before taking the risk of painting my puppet, I decided to take photos of it. And paint different colours on to it using photoshop. I also painted on her where underwear would be placed, I did this because I plan on making her underwear out of fabrics. But I wanted to make sure the underwear colour would go well with the skin colour.

On this attempt, I wanted to keep most of the blue colour on her skin already, but brighten it up with pale whites and peaches just for highlights. 

 In this example I used dark blue for the shadows on her body, with white to show the lighter parts of the body.

I toned down the blue in this example, I felt like I could use more of it because it wasn't too overpowering on her body. Also I used white for the lighter parts, by far this is my favourite, it's subtle but still uses the colours I want.

Laika - Box Trolls

I watched Box Trolls not long ago, and the colours in the puppets really stuck into my mind. They all had very noticeable colours in their faces, the villains would often have pale colours likes blues and purples. Whereas the heroine would have pinker bits on their faces.

 I decided I wanted to focus on the villians face, which consists of blue, greens, yellows and pinks. It makes them seem ill in my opinion. Which is the look I want for my puppet, I just how how unblended the colours are. It makes a very interesting effect.

Re-sculpting the Head

Using glue I placed the head on my puppet and waited for it to set, I accidentally make the neck smaller than what I wanted. But it wasn't too bad. It worked out really well, the head was sturdy and the hair covered the face as much as I wanted. I might cut it to make it shorter.

Just out of luck I found a white version on the clay I used for her face, considering I was going to paint her it made sense for it to be white. The orange might give the paint an odd tinge. I modelled it further so she has large eyelids that protrude out. Along with a pointy nose and chin.