Another video to be included in my final film is this of my puppet climbing a clay staircase to look at a drawing of 'the perfect model'. The camera is quite shaky because I couldn't get hold of a shutter remote before I filmed so my constant pushing of the shutter button made a lot of camera shake.
On that note I think this is a good time to review all the problems I had, as at this point all I need to do is convert the full film to a mov file.
Firstly, the clay I used for the original sculpt was the wrong sort, and the non-drying, oil based clay I made the second hand and feet sculpts from was miles better, plus using this clay means that I can reuse it when I'm finished casting.
Secondly, my lego leaked a lot, up until I learnt not to be too sparing with it and just about coated the inside of the lego walls.
Time was a big hindering factor, and had I realised that the plaster and silicone should have had more time to set I would have given it. Unfortunately I was hasty, so the plaster moulds repeatedly fell apart or were too wet to properly keep their shape. As for the silicone, the hands were OK aside from some bubbles, which will be solved as my pouring technique improves, but the silicone mould for the head could have done with another couple of days to really dry and hold it's shape.
If I had done that part this problem wouldn't have occured, my mis-shapen head. Because the silicone was still very malleable I didn't realise that as I put it back in the cup to make the plastic cast it became bent out of shape on the inside, so my puppets head is slightly caved in on the upper side, but I saved it from being too noticable by redesigning the hair piece.
And finally, the camera shake, which can be rectified as soon as the shutter remote I ordered has arrived.
On that note I think this is a good time to review all the problems I had, as at this point all I need to do is convert the full film to a mov file.
Firstly, the clay I used for the original sculpt was the wrong sort, and the non-drying, oil based clay I made the second hand and feet sculpts from was miles better, plus using this clay means that I can reuse it when I'm finished casting.
Secondly, my lego leaked a lot, up until I learnt not to be too sparing with it and just about coated the inside of the lego walls.
Time was a big hindering factor, and had I realised that the plaster and silicone should have had more time to set I would have given it. Unfortunately I was hasty, so the plaster moulds repeatedly fell apart or were too wet to properly keep their shape. As for the silicone, the hands were OK aside from some bubbles, which will be solved as my pouring technique improves, but the silicone mould for the head could have done with another couple of days to really dry and hold it's shape.
If I had done that part this problem wouldn't have occured, my mis-shapen head. Because the silicone was still very malleable I didn't realise that as I put it back in the cup to make the plastic cast it became bent out of shape on the inside, so my puppets head is slightly caved in on the upper side, but I saved it from being too noticable by redesigning the hair piece.
And finally, the camera shake, which can be rectified as soon as the shutter remote I ordered has arrived.
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