The Desk

 I'm really happy with how this miniature desk turned out.  First I constructed it with illustration board.  Then I covered the whole thing with thin wood strips that are a sticker on one side, some stuff called Sticky Bark.

 I painted the desk with an acrylic from Golden called transparent brown, which basically looks like a wood stain.

And here is the completed desk.  One prop down, several more to go.  The set is coming together!

Office Chair

There are a lot of props to make for my new stop motion web series.  One of the most challenging so far has been the office chair.  The cushions are painted foam, the rollers were made out of sculpey.  The bottom and back of the chair were made from illustration board and Magic Sculpt. There is also a decent amount of supper glue holding it all together.

 And here is the final chair.  There is also a screw hole in the bottom to secure it to the set.  It's not the most beautiful chair ever, but it will certainly work for the show.

Moving Forward

After much thought, I've decided to move forward with a new project.  I'm postponing the short film I was working on before and moving on to something I feel is more doable and possible to make in the space I have right now.  I will come back to that short film idea someday, and much of the preliminary work has already been done, which is no small feat in itself.  Right now I'm excited about this idea, which is the first thing I thought of doing after graduating from animation school.  It's one character, one set, endless possibilities.  It's going to be on-going webisodes, just how many I'm not sure yet, but I've got several ideas spinning in my head.

Above is a picture of what I've got going so far.  I'm using one of my ball and socket armatures to build the puppet.  The face you see on the puppet here is not final, and the hair will eventually be painted black, right now it's just a bunch of wires.  The whole thing is going to take place in an office, so on the bottom of the set you can see my idea for the floor.

Watch for the first webisode by the end of the year, and many more progress posts here before that!