Making Mould for Teeth

After sculpting the teeth in sculpy and baking them (to help retain it retain it's shape when being cast), I super glued the base of the teeth to some foamex board and then glued a segment of a plastic bottle around it (to act as a wall for the mould).

I mixed some dragon skin (a type of 2 part silicone) and injected it in, making sure that the teeth were ciompletely covered.

When the dragon skin set I pulled it away from the sculp. Seeing that the mould was OK, I mixed some fast cast (a two part resin) to cast a copy of the teeth. I took the cast out to find there were a couple of air bubles in the mould. This wasn't to great a problem as the extra resin caused by the airbubble could be chipped off or sanded down.

Seeing that a duplicate of the top row of teeth didn't look that great as the bottom row, I sculpted another row and repeated the mould process. I then cast a large number of the bottom teeth to go inside the deferent replacable mouths (for diferent facial expressions and lip sync). As I was using a fixed row of teeth for the top set, I only really needed one, but I ended up casting a few spares with the excess fast cast from casting the multiples of the lower set. With the lower sets I did different depths of casts. I did this to save time on sanding back the mouth shapes with slighter exposures of the bottom teeth.

Final animatic with Narration

I was unhappy with the original animatic (particularly the intro and the dinamics of the story). After re-writing, cutting out a number of shots, adding some new ones, refining the timing and recording the narrations with a voice actor; the is the final animatic that I put together (which I felt a lot happier with):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRi2_CAuufg&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

Original Animatic For Main Film Project

This is the first animatic that I knocked together deriving from the idea/drawings of the story about the hungry student I did previously (see older post). This is before I finalised the story, script and sound effects etc.

(Click on youtube link below to view)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZcrrPxNCPc

Preparing head for 2 part moulding (for replacements)

Puppet development for Film "I could eat a horse"

Mime Project: Conductor clip (near completion)

Sausage Mouth Lip Sync Project

For this project I had to make a simple stalagmite type character and set of replacable sausage mouths. I then had to choose a sound clip, break down the lip sync and animate the character acting out the dialogue using facial esxpressions only. The clip I chose was a narration (from Sin City) because I thought it would be more interesting to animate something without an exhisting visual reference.