Sets and Stuff

I did a couple animation tests with the armature I made last week. They aren't the most beautiful pieces of animation in the world, but now I know the armature design won't totally fall apart on me.

I did decide to increase the scale of the puppet from 10" to 12". This should help get more subtlety in the movement, and also keep the chicken puppets from being to small.

I also finished up some more character designs. First I've got the evil chicken.

I stole a bunch of design point from Rio, so hopefully he should be pretty distinguishable from the other chickens. I started messing around with chicken armatures, but so far they've all been pretty big failures. Hopefully increasing the scale should help a bit, but it'll take quite a bit of experimenting to figure something out.

I also finished the design for Charles, a character that comes in at the very end of the film.

SPOILER ALERT: He's the chickens father

I've started working on fabrication of the butcher's shop set.

I've got bunches of homasote and plywood to start making the actual set frame, but I've also started working on props and set pieces.

This will eventually be the refrigerator. I've got sheet metal I'm going to be cutting up and pasting over the poster-board shell to give it the look of a brushed stainless steel fridge.

So, uh, yeah. Stay tuned, I guess... Or not... That's cool too...