I just thought I'd do a quick update as its a month still the last one. At the moment I'm staying with my dad and working on the set, its getting there but predicably progress is slower than I'd like. I'll try and get pictures soon.

This is the new instrument for my soundcape, its the inside of a piano.















The sounds that you can get from it are really spooky and just the extra element my sondscape for the film will need.

Before I broke up for christmas I had to do another 5 minute presentation, this is the video I put together for it:


The video has some fragments from some of the sound tests I made using the piano.

its been a while since my last update, I've been doing dissertation work amongst other things. The inner skull of Noah's head and the torso sculpt are finished and ready for molding now, here are some pictures:











































Ive also done a lot of new soundscape work, but sadly the sound card on my PC has decided to die, and its not letting me put it up here. I've looking at the budget for the film today and scaring myself, I'm still looking at over a grands worth of costs, so I'm going to have to sell my guitar and some games consoles soon I think. My mum and dad have found a couple of cool sounding props for the film set, but I'll wait till I have more info/ photos so you'll have to wait and see!

I'm back in bristol this weekend and clearing out dad's garage. It went well and should be pretty much ready for me to start building the set. I haven't rung John Wright yet, about the armature, but will do tomorrow. Hopefully I'll get good news, I could do with some about now.

Just an update on the sculpting stuf today really, heads moving along slowly, its really been a pain in the ass to make. Lots of strange unstable shapes. as you can see the proportions have got a bit crazy, this is mainly because I need to incorperate the teeth (which are a wixture of fox and wallaby teeth). Its growing on me tho, I think itll work.

heres how the torso sculpt is coming along, ive started detailing it today.

Two thing to put up today, first off a quick photo of my progress on the final head sculpt:














And a design sketch for it, showing how the armature will work:















The second thing is another lump of test animations with some more sound stuff:


I should probably go to bed........

Went to John Wrights studio again today with all my new stuffs, he was home ill sadly but I got to speak to some of his technicians who'd helped my out the first time I visited so I got it all sorted. The've taken some photos of the sculpt and a few of my design drawings and they should have an armature plan and an idea of the cost for me by next friday (nov 28th). Meanwhile on my end I have to finish off the torso sculpt and make the mold of it as a priority so they can use it to make sure the key armature praportions are accurate. I'll finish up with a recent photo of the body sculpt, its still very much work in progress.

Just a quick one as its late. I'm back in Bristol at the moment and I when to check out my dads garage where I'll be animating the film. Here's a pic:














Dads been collecting up wood and bits of tubing for me to help me build the sets with as you can see! In two weeks time I'm clearing it out ready to start building sets. While I'm in Bristol I'm also gonna go visit John Wright again armed with my sculpts and armature designs, hopefully it'll be enough for him to work out a quote to see how much it'll cost. This'll help me work out my lighting budget and weather I can get myself a copy of stopmotion pro for the computers. Then I can get it built.

In other news its also nice to see my cat Lola who's living with my folks at the moment, hopefully she can come back to Newport soon :)