Finishing Backstage, Car Crashes & Swapmeets
Wednesday July 29 2009
In the studio it's so cold that I turn on the heat gun and hang it from a nail. If you hear that the studio had burnt down then it's probably that or the latex oven that's set to full and door-less. ...
Static Electricity, M&M and Galahs
Tuesday April 14 2009
Have I told you about the static electricity in the building? With the dry heat, humble reader, the static comes out of the walls like "brown wood roaches onto a bin crudely made by hanging a plastic bag on a nail, that, yes I did say I was going to put out - but c'mon baby - I’m relaxing"...
Hot Glue, Scene 13 and being daunted...
Friday September 5 2008
Ahh Perth… sunny, dry and far from where you have to be in 10 mins... yes I might concede that the public transport system takes a little longer but meh.. So for the last 7 months I’ve been in Melbourne doing some guff and bunk on a stop- mo feature which...
AA, Apostrophes and Abraham Lincoln
Friday February 1 2008
Currently I'm in Melbourne and will be here for 5 months. I have another stint of 'Max and Mary' the Adam Elliot stop-motion feature. I'm an Animation Assistant which we call an AA to save time - as enough is wasted building cabinets that I swore I measured...
6 weeks, tasty skills and top shelves
Tuesday November 13 2007
Hmm... well for the last 6 weeks I’ve been working over in Melbourne-icanic-o-tron-land tempest place... on a stop motion feature film called Mary and Max. My position was called 'slashing' which is the verb for 'slasher' the noun. This role was a hybrid of Animation assisting and model making...
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Carts
Thursday July 19 2007
I think the problem with animation is that we have to build things first. The said things are from 1095 and we have a basic gist of what they look like and what they do but I'm currently building a horse drawn cart. The driving and turning mechanism is quite difficult. It's not as if I can get blue prints from 1095. So we look at current carts and reduce and simplify the design from images off the net. We then do a working schematic of the design and see if there are design flaws. Currently I've drawn a cart but it wouldn't turn more than a few degrees. Also we have to figure out a mechanism to rotate the front wheels independently otherwise the cart wouldn't turn corners. Then once we have a workable design does it even look like a cart from 1095? You see my dilemma.
Emma Fletcher just visited and said that carts don’t have turning mechanisms that’s why the turns in roads were such a wide arc. Fug…
This self-glorification is by Pierce Davison. He received 51% in TEE English so you can email spelling corrections etc to spelling@davisonbros.com
Or you know, look at what's blathered rather than how its blathered. ps its blather.
