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Cable Controlled Puppet Mechanism.
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Using Rhinoceros 5, I designed each and every piece to be laser cut into acrylic. The neck, or 'spiny' mechanism, is made up from ten spinal plates that are bolted into a central core made from a hot glue stick threaded into a PVC pipe.
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The body is controlled by a joystick and the mandibles on the head are controlled by a bicycle brake lever (both pictured in video).
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The puppet stands at about a foot and half tall it cost around £30 and two weeks to put together and get running.
For the paint job, once primed, I used a series of acrylic washes to build up a base colour on each part of the model. Once the base colour was dry, I used oil paints to do some darker washes and dry brushing.
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The final mossy finish was done by blending up model lichen into a flock-like substance and applying it with a brush and some PVA glue. I then dusted the walkways with powder from some hard pastels to make it look as if it has been walked upon.
Stop-motion Background Tree house Set.
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The tree house was built for my final major project at the University of Hertfordshire. It took twelve weeks to build, four weeks to paint, and cost around £400 all together. It stands at a metre tall and is around a metre squared, wall-to-wall.
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I utilised many different materials to build it including: balsa wood, MDF, styrene, perspex (acrylic), expanding foam, plaster and scrim, chemi-wood (modelling foam), and Artex.
First Year Time Machine Project.
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A slightly more amateurish piece, this model was built for the time machine project at the end of my first year. The concept is that it's a nineteen-fifties style military installation surrounding an excavated extra-terrestrial time machine that was buried beneath the Nevada desert.
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It is made from an MDF base with chemi-wood (modelling board) to make up the rocky quarry walls and monoliths. The buildings are laser cut MDF with a corrugated aluminium roof and the sand and debris are made from fine model sand.
For the paint job, I applied several acrylic washes after priming and then acrylic dry brushing and details.
CAD Renders (Rhinoceros 5)
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These renders are from the original designs that I made from the first cable controlled puppet I built (the puppet itself did not work particularly well as it was my first attempt). They are a 1:1 scale drawing of the puppet (at about two feet tall) and took me a week to complete.
'Tiki' Style Ceremonial Shoulder Armour.
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This piece was made for a short "Turbo" project at the beginning of my second year of university. I made it to look like driftwood or old, weathered wood and the concept was that someone would wear a pair of these shoulder pads as part of a ceremony. I took inspiration from the Crash Bandicoot game franchise and Native American totem poles.
I made a plaster caster cast of my shoulder to sculpt upon and once the clay sculpt was done, I made a plaster and scrim mould of the sculpt. The final cast was done with latex and fibreglass and was left to dry.
I used acrylic paint mixed with liquid latex so that the colour would adhere to the latex-fibreglass cast.
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