Hi there!




This will need some explination...

This is an animationTEST. This way I want to gen a clear view on how the final animation will look together with the music. The music is a TEST version also. Don't mind Adam, he was lying on his bed during the testshoot, he will be sitting at his desk during the final shot.
While he is drawing, his work will pop onto the walls of his room, while an entire day will pass by...

Hope you understand my roughness... :)

By the way, I'm VERY PISSED! I see Youtube has compressed the film this way, the animation is already worthless.... Enjoy anyway. :/ (the drawings have to pop up one at the time)

Bye

Some Pics!

Some Rigs 'n Rain for the interested. The puppets need support during animation ( specially for walks).

Animating the rain gave me a nostalgic feel, all the frustration and seeming endless animation process came back to me. I'll post another piece of film soon, the rain is now being run trough the Post Production.

Bye!

Hi Everybody!

Yesterday It started raining on the set. Because I animated raindrops before, (Watch "Rain" @ the previous posts) and was pretty happy with the result, I wrote a scene with heavy rain into Her Hair. Many thanx by the way to Barry Purves and his crew on Hamilton Mattress, because it's their technique I've borrowed :)

Music is also written as we speak, the first tests sounded pretty damn good! I'll post some of it when it's finished.

In the meanwhile here's something I'm pretty proud of; Alta.

ps; a question to my co-Bloggers. Do you also find the lay-out options on Blogger a bit limited? The published version of the post always differs from the created one...weird.

See ya soon!

Busy Busy Busy...

The shoot of the first scene is now finished. Up to scene 3!

See ya!

Alta gives a glimpse of herself...





Greetz from the "Hot Set" ;)

Alta has arrived! Her first shots look good, she's bringing a whole new feel to the picture.

More soon!

Boys and Girls,

Her Hair is no longer a silent project! Sounds will be delivered by Northern Sounds, a production company based in West Yorkshire. Adrien Walkinshaw has offered his sounds and talents to Her Hair.

Northern Sounds can be found at: http://northernsounds.co.uk/

In the meanwhile filming and animating goes as planned. Alta is now in her final stage of birth, I'm detailing her at home now, preparing her for her fist day of shooting on Monday.
Stuff will be posted soon.

Bart

Here's the first shot I've animated. It's also the first shot that has Alta in it...sort of. ;)




Grtz, bart

Just finished my second shot today, I'll start animating the third after this little post is done.

The thing I just finished was a 6sec. walk by Adam. It was the first time I laughed when I saw the finished Quicktime, I think that's a good sign.

You'll see on the pics below how I let Adam walk, took of his legs and added a piece of thin card for every frame. So it looks as if he's going up and down during his first steps...

Just finished a shot that lasts 45 (!) seconds! It's the titleshot and the pressure to make it work was high, but it looks fine. As from this moment on I'm able to create smooth and convincing camera movements using my Travel-Device. After a lot of Trial-and-Error. The system is as simple as it can get. A small piece of Betonplex wooden plate (It has a very smooth surface) wich has the head of the tripod screwed on it just slides over a long section of Betonplex (in this case 2m.). No wheels involved, "less is more" is my advise! ;)

I'll post some finished shots soon, so you can judge for your self.

See Ya !