Dat Thesis

Oh, hey there. This is Joe. I'm making a movie.

I'm working on my Senior Thesis, a movie about butchers, chickens, and the afterlife. It's going to be a stop-motion short, hopefully finished by next Spring. And hopefully it won't be bad.

So, I guess I'll post some progress and stuff here to keep me all motivated and whatnot throughout the year.

Right now I've got the script nailed down and the boards pretty much finished.

I'm working with my sound guy to get this all turned into a full-fledged, super cool animatic. But in the meantime I'm trying to get right into fabrication. I've got three sets I need to make for this film. The first one I'm working on right now is the butcher's shop, where the film opens. So I've started trying to figure out proportions between the puppets and props and whatnot.

With this all figured out I can go ahead and start actually making the set and props.

I've also started making some armatures to test for the butcher puppet. All my previous puppets have used twisted wire armatures. But apparently it's all the rage to wrap wires with thread instead nowadays to keep it from weakening as fast.

I made this guy to test it out with. The actual fabrication process was pretty straightforward, so now I'll move on to actually animating it to see how it moves.

So, if all goes according to plan, by next week I should have a test animation and some props and stuff to show.