Irony

It´s funny how after 3 and a half years of finishing my stop motion studies in Barcelona, I had never got a job related to stop motion animation. You only have to be absolutely ready to start shooting the film you´ve spent your last year working on, for an amazing job offer to come your way...so fast that you can´t say no.
So there I am, with my foam latex puppets stack in a shoebox in the corner of the room, and the animation set used for the new REPATE proyect. I cant´say too much about it because aparently there are some confidentiality issues with the project. I can´t even show you a picture!! But don´t worry, as soon as we finish, we are alowed to show it.

So nothing more to say....we have to get this job done by the 22nd of this month....and it´s 2 minutes of animation, with a few different characters and interacion with objects.. (I hate it!!) so just imagine the levels of stress and tension we are suffering this days!!....OK, I´ll show a picture...but don´t tell anyone..

There you go!

The cameback II

Hi again....I should be ashaimed of myself for not writing anything here since april, but better late than never!! Today I´ve had my first day of shooting, I am righting from my studio/home for the next few months. A lot has being going on, but of actual interes for you...not much.

I got my puppets a day before flying back here, to Spain, but I couldn´t start shooting straight away. I send the camera for a nice industrial sensor cleaning, we built a set....

But it was too small and ugly....so we built another one, and I built a giant lightbox for the shortfilm:

We have built a camera move device for stop motion:

But it didn´t work too well....so we made another one!!

We did all the ilumination tests:

And today, after 7 months of Preproduction, finally, the animation has began:

I hope you like it. I´ll try to catch up with some "behind the scenes" pictures in the next posts, and tell you how the animation is going. So far today, even though I got two shots done, the puppet is already having skin problems with the paint coming off, and it has a neck injurie, that is not too dangerous for now, but it can turn into spinal damage!!!

Hopefully, I´ll write back soon!