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Nathan Flynn: Ball & Socket Armatures - Finished

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Stop Motion Animatior and Model Maker. Graduated from the University of Glamorgan. Tuesday, 15 November 2011. Ball and Socket Armatures - Finished. After several weeks of work I've finally finished making my new ball and socket armatures. My plan is to replace the aluminium wire armatures that are currently in my 'Roy' and 'Elle' puppets. This should make them more resilient and professional. You can read about my aluminium wire armatures HERE. Roy' Male Ball and Socket Armature. The turn around picture ...

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Nathan Flynn: Ball & Socket Joints

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Stop Motion Animatior and Model Maker. Graduated from the University of Glamorgan. Monday, 21 March 2011. Ball and Socket Joints. Ball and socket joints are used in puppet armatures as an alternative to aluminium wire. The advantage of using them is that they will not snap like wire, and their tension can be controlled to tighten or loosen the joint. Unfortunatley they are dificult and expensive to make. These smaller joints are made from 5mm steel ball bearings that I drilled and soldered steel rod into...

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Nathan Flynn: Casting - Puppet Body

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Stop Motion Animatior and Model Maker. Graduated from the University of Glamorgan. Wednesday, 20 April 2011. Casting - Puppet Body. Now that I've finished making all the moulds for my puppet it's time to cast out all the body parts. To do this I suspend the wire armature parts inside the mould, and encase them in silicone. Cleaning up the mould. Terracotta clay washes off the mould with warm water and Turpentine dissolves Plastiline. I use a stiff bristled brush to get into all the small crevasses. In th...

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Nathan Flynn: February 2011

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Stop Motion Animatior and Model Maker. Graduated from the University of Glamorgan. Wednesday, 16 February 2011. Above is a large picture (click image to view full size) of the characters featured in our film. These four character marquettes were sculpted and digitally painted by Josh and Myself. In the center are our main characters that I posted earlier in this blog, Link. Links to this post. Saturday, 12 February 2011. Finally I bulked out the chest and waist using blue foam that I carved into shape&#4...

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Nathan Flynn: January 2011

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Stop Motion Animatior and Model Maker. Graduated from the University of Glamorgan. Monday, 31 January 2011. Here is the finalised digital paint up of the actress. A few subtle alterations were made to the marquette and there are some colours changes from the previous attempt. 65279;Here are some final designs for the Mail Man that was designed, sculpted and painted by Josh. This expression was designed for the scene where the Mail Man realises that the package he has just posted may have contained a bomb.

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Nathan Flynn: May 2011

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Stop Motion Animatior and Model Maker. Graduated from the University of Glamorgan. Friday, 27 May 2011. Sorry I haven't posted any updates in a while. Both me and Josh have been busy shooting scenes for our film and I haven't had much spare time. What we've shot so far is looking very nice. I've been working on this character for a long time now and I'm happy to show you the finished puppet. In my previous post I explained the process of painting the final details onto the face and hair. Since then I...

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skatedog blog: October 2011

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Friday, 21 October 2011. Ok, welcome back, this is the promised post about our latest stop motion project, which as of now is underway- in fact, there are shots in the can already! This is a lip-sync project, and has involved making puppets with replacement mouth faces, and also working with wire armatures. It's been a very long time since I used wire, but I decided to go back to it - I'd seen so many good pieces recently using wire. I decided to try it. As Riversong would say.). We designed the characte...

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Nathan Flynn: June 2011

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Stop Motion Animatior and Model Maker. Graduated from the University of Glamorgan. Thursday, 9 June 2011. In this post I'm going to be showing how I made the uniform for the Theatre Usher. The last time I posted about this character I described how I bulked out his armature using balsa wood and upholstery sponge. Above you can see the sleeve of the uniform with added detail to the cuff. He'll be finishing the head first so that we can plot where to add the collar and finishing details like buttons. H...

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Nathan Flynn: Ball & Socket Armature - Double Ball Joint

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Stop Motion Animatior and Model Maker. Graduated from the University of Glamorgan. Thursday, 27 October 2011. Ball and Socket Armature - Double Ball Joint. This is going to be a monstrously long post so you might want to get comfortable. In this post I'll be demonstrating how to make a ball and socket joint. Its quite a complex process so bare with me. The bench drill gives a lot more control that a hand drill and most importantly it drills strait down at 90 degrees every time. This is crucial as any...

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Nathan Flynn: Moulding & Casting - Head

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Stop Motion Animatior and Model Maker. Graduated from the University of Glamorgan. Tuesday, 12 April 2011. Moulding and Casting - Head. In this Post I'll be continuing the process of creating the head for the Actress (Elle) Puppet. In my previous post I completed the master sculpt of the head and facial masks. I will now be moulding those parts and casting out plastic copies. You can see Josh's post about Moulding and Casting the Mail Man's heads HERE. I will be using the same process. Another important ...