Experimental - smarties and origami bird progression

I wanted to use red wire for the smarties creatures legs so that the creature would be able to be animated on a green screen, but also so that it would stand out.

Unfortunately I couldn't find any red wire so I ended up buying some red metal paint and painting the wire. In the process of painting the wire I held them in some plastercine so they could dry well. I had to take a photo as I think these would work really well for animation - weird alien plant life forms. Actually you could probably find these creatures in the coral reef or something...



I spent a whole day in the studio making these. I think they look pretty cool. Pictured are all the tools and materials required to make them.



The Smarties creature is now ANIMATED ! : ) We have also animated it in a setting ( I will upload this at a later date.)



Me and Ryan have been working with the origami birds once again.. Its easier once you've done a trial attempt to make smoother animation as you know what you are doing more. We tried a bird taking off technique.. I quite like this.



Here me and Ryan reworked the shot we took before, only with Ryan turning his hand so it can make a bit more sense. Ryan is working at putting in a Live action backdrop to fit with this.



I quite like the smoothness of this fly cycle.. This bright green should hopefully be able to be 'keyed out' in aftereffects.



Here is a techno version! This works best at 9fps but I could only save it as an Avi which is way too big for the blog. This one here is a 7.5 fps mpeg version. 12fps is a be a bit too flashy.