Weekly summarie 2, week 23

Week 2 (Week 23)                        Friday the 16th 2018

 Week 2 (Week 23) Friday the 16^th, March 2018

Mystery Box Project;

This week I had a lecture by John Lee about his career in model making, in which I found his work outstanding and inspiring, it opened my eyes to different types of possibilities of materials that I could use for my animation puppet, and the props. Also Monday I began the construction of my puppet, using wire and milliput, which I had to leave my wirer Skelton untouched for the rest of the day after the putt. In the rest of the spare time during my session, I researched fabrics I could use for the costume and tutorials on how to make gloves and hats.

On Wednesday, I spent my day researching and looking for materials. I bought some red fabric and began practising making gloves and dresses using the material, to see any problems that may occur with the fabric. With glue the fabric stiffened, but was rather stretchy- a good feature that enables my model to move more freely.

On Thursday, I was able to add my fifth fingers to the hands of my model, and began adding foam using a contact much more instant glue. The only negative was the glue tried up yellow, luckily the foam is only an under layer. Finishing the foam in the same session, I began to create the dress, sewing it straight onto my model. This proved time consuming, taking an extra three and a half hours after the session finished. I did make some errors, the first layer of skirt barely covered my models more curvy areas, where I had added additional foam. So I had to create a longer skirt, which I cut and pinned but decided to not sew yet.

Friday, I attempted to glue the skirt to the model, this looked effective and good, but I used a glue gun which was messy and got 'cobwebs' of glue on the right side of the fabric, which hardened unfortunately.