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Masterpiece Camp 2012-Zoetropes

I just got back from an amazing week of working with fellow artists at Masterpiece camp.  In the three short years since I’ve been able to be a part of things the camp has really grown! 

This year for my animation workshop I brought an old record player, a strobe light and a stack of 16″ cardboard pizza rounds.  Here are some examples of what the kids came up with:

Rachel’s Zoetrope

Emma’s Zoetrope

Manning’s Zoetrope

Brendon, Josh and Aidan

 

We even attempted a Pac-Man Pizza-trope.

 

The record player/strobe set-up was used to test the animation and make adjustments (much like a pencil test).  It also makes for a great gallery installation.  There’s something magical about watching physical 3 objects coming to life right in front of you.

These were shot were shot on a turntable in 12 frame cycles without the strobe and played back in a loop.

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...and then there were three

Things have been a little busy lately but I did manage to pull three good casts last week.  This huge given that the last time I saw Brother Thomas intact he was drowning in pink silicon rubber and when I extracted the him from the mold he was in pieces.

I’ll post some of the in-process pix soon.

Making Molds

Last weekend was an incredible opportunity to up my moldmaking techniques… not to mention catch up with an old friend and his family.   Rich’s shop is amazing (as is he) and Nora’s hospitality made it seem like a  professional workshop/B & B.  I would gladly sign up for another.  Here are some photos of the paces I put Brother Thomas through.  I’d like to say the original sculpt made it through with flying colors.  More on that next post.

Click on the images for a larger view.

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The Monk Gets a Makeover

I’m headed to Valparaiso tomorrow to start making a mold for the Br. Thomas makette.   He’s been in various stages of sculpy repair since I sculpted him over ten years ago so it’s time to immortalize him in urethane (he managed to take a fall off of our new piano only 3 days after I took the original photos of him).

After cleaning him up and giving him a new hairline, collar, hood and rope tassels he’s ready to undergo the rigors of having a mold made of him (basically drowning him in 3 gallons of silicon rubber one section at a time).  My friend Rich Schiller (master modeler/moldmaker) has generously offered to guide me through this process as apparently Br. Thomas is a fairly complicated little guy.

Stay tuned for more picture and the results.  Click on the images for a larger view.

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Three by Spooner

A special thanks to Natalie Lombard and Cathy Strokosch for hosting two separate “Get to Know Br. Thomas” evenings in the Chicago area.  Besides the great food and warm company I was able to pitch the story-so-far to two groups of people who’s insight on art, film, and faith I highly respect.  I came away from both evenings exhilarated, encouraged and challenged.  Who could have asked for more!

One highlight of the first evening was that  Michael Spooner brought some concept sketches of the cathedral that I had not seen before.  I can’t tell you how exciting it is to see elements of this story come alive in the hands of someone like Michael.  The fact that he does these drawings with such apparent ease only makes them that much more brilliant!

Here are three that stand out.  You can click on the details to see the full image.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. One of the 8 to 10 statues of the Church Fathers whose gaze Thomas passes under everyday on his way to work.  They are not animated in the film but the shadows they cast weigh heavily on Thomas as he slips by them, usually late, on his way to the scriptorium.  The lighting and scale that Michael introduces in this drawing sets the tone perfectly!

2. This is Thomas running up the stairs.  This angle didn’t exist in the boards previously but you can be sure that it will in the future.

3. This is the doorway that Thomas goes through to enter the stairwell.  Kind of a service entrance to the scriptorium.

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Storyboards-Seeing for the First Time (Part 2)

Finally the moment the story has been building to.  Br. Thomas finds himself face to face with the Dragonfly. . . one by one the animals join him.  A moment of flurry and the Dragonfly leads them all in a celebratory romp through the hills.

The image of Thomas releasing the Dragonfly is the first picture that showed up in my head before there was ever a story to accompany it.  If you’ll notice it’s the moment captured in the makette I sculpted years ago.

If you click on the 4 panel image you can see the entire story sequence.

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Baby Birds-Image Sequence

One of the nice things about boarding a storing you wrote almost a decade ago are the surprises that turn up.  This is a sequence of images I hadn’t anticipated.  They make me smile.

Storyboards-Seeing for the First Time (Part 1)

This scene marks the beginning of Brother Thomas’ day of epiphany as the dragonfly leads him further from the path and deeper into the wonders of the natural landscape.  Shot after shot, image after image, Brother Thomas’ eyes are opened to new revelations at every turn.   At this point his only response is to simply drink it all in.

I’m trying to capture a more playful version of that sense of awe that Thomas has as he enters the scriptorium.  At the same time I want to play up the trickster role of the dragonfly teasing the animals in the same way that he was jesting with the Saints.

If you click on the 8 panel image you can see the entire story sequence.

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Casting Brother Thomas-Makette

You probably recognize this little guy from my profile image.  I thought I would post a series of turn-around photos of him before he officially goes under the knife.  I’m hoping to pull a mold from him in the next few weeks which means he’s currently in parts getting ready for his operation.  More photos of the process to come.