EMPIRE STRIKES BACK Additional Animation Footage

Well, I'm just doing this for my own pleasure and it's going to be an animation exercise giving me some much needed practice before venturing further with personal film projects that I've got planned for the future.
After I add a bit more detail to the lair entrance piece, next up will be starting the Wampa stop-motion puppet..... and the fun continues!
 
The Wampa armature FINALLY arrived, now I just have to find some time to start blocking out the sculpture...... stay tuned
 
This is amazing mate.

I Long for someone to make a science fiction film using traditional FX techniques including stop mo.

Will you be shooting and editing on digital? If so can you eleborate on the tech set up you will be using please please please!! As a geek I would love to know the start tpo finish process!

Oh and if I one day do realise my dream of setting up and running a film company dedicated to producing independant films utilising traditional fx techniques..... you will be heading up the stop mo division ;)

EDIT: As above, will you be going for stop mo and adding motion blur digitally? or will this be actual go motion?? Would love to know the tech details!
Weequay
 
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This is sensational. I cannot WAIT to see your finished demo reel. I'll bet it will blow away the CGI crap used today.

Now that George Lucas has flown the coop, I'm glad we have people like you around to preserve film history and traditional techniques.
 
Thanks so much guys for all the awesome words of support and interest, it really does keep me going!!

To answer the questions, yes I'll be doing stop-motion with just a tad of digital motion blur. I'll probably also try a little bit of "manual" go-motion just to see how it turns out but I don't want to get bogged down with that as much since I can use the computer for the slight blurring therefore eliminating one time consuming element. I'm gonna shoot using a Canon 40D camera along with using the Dragon stop-mo program.

Again, thank you everyone who's been following this, I know it's slow going but I'm gonna try my damndest to make it worth the wait and also thank you all so much who still believe that traditional effects are the best!!!

Merry Xmas, Happy Holidays and a better New Year for everyone
 
christrom said:
I have seen numerous digital motion blur tests added on to traditional stop motion effects and the results have always been incredible: All the personality of stop motion with the finesse of digital animation to iron out the kinks.


This is a perfect example:

Jason and the argonauts loop. NOT FULL SCENE. - YouTube

Good luck and Merry Christmas!
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Wonderful! Can you post some more footage please??!!!

DId you render the whole scene? would love to see it as well as some before and after conmparisons :)

weequay
 
Well, after getting caught up a bit on my commissioned work, I've finally been able to squeeze in a little work on the Wampa puppet. I've got the head sculpt mostly finished, I still have to adjust it in some places but you can at least get the idea. Keep in mind that I'm basing this on the Phil Tippet hand puppet.
 
Ok, finally got the head molded and cast as well as the hands, the head is resin (I have yet to attach the lower jaw since I ran out of super glue) and the hands are of course silicone. I've already cast multiple heads so as to have an open mouth head, a closed mouth head, and I'm also gonna have a head with a slightly moveable jaw so I can get a little mouth movement. The hands are different colors cuz I was experimenting with my pigments and the hands are gonna be painted anyway. Sorry bout the contrasty, bright head but the resin just bounces light like crazy, I'll be taking pics of course after I throw some paint on everything. I also tweaked the head sculpt a tiny bit just to clean it up a tad before I molded it, so it'll look a bit better once it's painted.
Next step, begin foaming and shaping the body.
 
Wampa's looking good. I hope Hollywood starts using this technique more and gets away from CGI. With a good animator behind these creatures, they look more realistic than CGI.
 
You said it brotha!!!!! From your mouth to Hollywoods deaf ear! Throughout my 20 plus year career in feature film visual effects I was always an advocate for stop-mo and the traditional "in-camera" effects during the cg revolution (takeover), and my response was always the same........ "cg takes less time and is less expensive". So it was inevitably this attitude in Hollywood that made me quit the "big time" and forced me to transition the fun factor of visual effects back into the garage where I plan on having a ball proving them wrong!
 
This is coming along really nicely! Keep up the great work! Being a star wars fan myself I cant wait to see this all come together!
 
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