3D Studio - Count Duckula

Thus, I present to thee a scene from the book Dracula, played by wax ducks on cardboard background.

Yeah, I'm weird.

This was for the moldmaking assignment. I took the ducks I already had, made molds, and poured wax into them to make these ducks. I put the set together with a hot glue gun.

Overall, I'm pretty happy with how it looks, and everyone in class seemed to like it too.

4D Studio - Animation project: Laverne the Camptosaurus

Because of this, I now have "The Entertainer" stuck in my head.

So this is my spin off of Gertie the Dinosaur. I figured it was fitting, considering that this is my first claymation/stop-motion, and Gertie was the first successful animation. I made her out of Sculpy clay and used Photoshop, iMovie, and Quicktime to make the animation.

Special thanks to  my sister for letting me use her camera, and Windsor McCay for the idea.

4D Studio - Animation change of plans

Well, I lost interest in the fox animation (a natural occurrence). So I'm changing to a claymation short. I'm going to mold a clay camptosaurus (which is like an iguanodon) doing things around my desk. I only have three different colors of clay, so hopefully this works. He'll be mostly white and made in a very cartoony style.

Just a quick doodle of a possible design. I'll probably make his neck longer. What do you think: stripes or spots?

3D Studio - Count Duckula

Ever wonder what would happen if you combined Dracula and rubber ducks?

No? Oh. Um...

Well, now you can wonder no more!

For my casting multiples project, I am going to recreate a scene from the book Dracula using my large collection of rubber ducks. I'm going to make molds of the ducks and full the molds with wax instead of clay, so I an put the scene together and not have to fire anything. I'm gong to use cardboard to make the scenery and other things.

3D Studio - The Hand of DOOM!!!

So the assignment was to sculpt my hand in clay.

It started out innocently with a basic pose and lots of detail.

And then...

I produced this:

So yeah. It turned out scarier than I expected.

Another note that I learned while making this: I have really tiny hands!