Loving Me
My role on this film included puppet, set, and prop fabrication as well as some animation.
Puppet Head Fabrication
Puppet Head sculpted in Chavant clay
Final head casted in plastic and painted with attachable facial features
To create varying mouth shapes, multiple heads were casted and mouths were removed with a dremel. New mouths were sculpted with epoxy putty.
A cast of the face was vacuformed over and eyebrows and pupils were cut out. Eyelids were sculpted with epoxy putty and all facial features were painted.
Final facial expressions
Puppet Injection
To achieve the purple gloves of the puppet, skin-colored silicone was painted into the mold over the skin before it was injected with glove-colored silicone.
Final Puppet
Set Fabrication
For the bar shelf, mechanicals were drawn and pieces were cut using the bandsaw, fez tool, and laser cut.
Base was attached with pin nails and the brass tubes were screwed into place with metal plates. The floating shelves and support arches were attached with epoxy.
Final shelf
Set-dressed shelf
Prop Fabrication
Ashtray sculpted in chavant, molded with silicone, and cast in clear plastic. The cigarette butts and ash were made with paper and paint, and attached with epoxy.
Martini glass top and base sculpted in clay, molded with silicone, and cast in plastic.
Plastic was vacuformed over the casted pieces. The pieces were attached with a thin wire and epoxy.
The martini glass was filled with museum gel and olives were made with epoxy putty.
Effects Animation
Smoke downshoot animation on glass with needle felt
Smoke composited into final shot
Puppet Animation
Responsible for puppet animation