robot at work. on set

just wanted to share a few photos of my robot during filming and what my work area looked like. 

book prop

in my animation my robot reads a book. the book that gives him the idea that a soul is an object. the book has written in it a quote from Daniel Defoe. my second year assistant made the book for me. i only ( badly ) wrote in the quote. 

musics

i decided for this animation that i would have ago at making my own music for it. usually i ask for help from my friend who did music tech at uni, but this time i wanted to try it for my self. i used the programme 'reason' and played around with it for a few hours. i wanted to try and make some sad and slightly creepy music, but i feel like i've made the music too creepy and too bassey.

animation tests

finally ready to do some animation tests with the robot. i managed two short tests. the first test is a hand test, just me seeing how well the hands move. the second test is an eye test, here i am trying out the replacement eyes. 

( hand test )

( eye test )

the bear

before i carry on with the blog, i just want to say that the bear isnt treated as a character but more as a prop for the robot. i gave my second year assistant the job of making bear more me. all i made of the bear was the wire armature for her to work with. 

set is finished

finished my set, wasn't much more to do to it other than cover some foam board in black paper which my second year assistant did for me. so here is my super simple set. 

robot back panel

in my animation i have a short cut scene of when the robot reaches in to his back. i needed a larger separate robot body making so that the inside could be completely hollow. i asked my second year assistant if she could make it for me. she did a great job but the back panel its self was wrong. 

( the original back panel )

( new back panel )

i hollowed out the inside of the body. made a new panel and made the hand. i made the hand using the same method i used on the robot puppet.