What I have been working on

Over the break I worked a bit on the creation of the left arm prosthesis. I was originally going to make it a combat arm that was a prong loaded canon but as I sat there with my planks of wood and old umbrella parts I thought that I could actually make another multi purpose arm that could have some functions. I ended up with this.

It is massive before I nerfed it the full 180 degree extension is roller than me. Which works for the character I'm planning for it. I'm contemplating making Estelle a shy person who's massive arm is a eye drawing spectacle that others are drawn to look at.

i recently started to catalog the sources i pull from both fantasy and science-fiction

I recently started to catalog the sources i pull from both fantasy and science-fiction over on the blog I created for my story http://thworldofclearil.blogspot.com/2016/03/my-sources-of-inspiration.html\

I also spent monday tuesday and plan to spend thursday in the studio working. i made a plaster cast of a gear for mass making composite wood gears, i made a good chunk of another prosthesis, and i worked on ceramics.

I recently started writing my story. it is my first attempt at writing any sort of story so it is rough and raw but it is getting there. I am going to make a separate blog for my world creation and post updates there. and then just link to them. I will link to the the first post here once it is made and talk a little about what i am doing a little later her as well.

http://thworldofclearil.blogspot.com/

I've decided to investigate a more realistic style of still life painting and have been looking at the Dutch still life masters.


Pieter Claesz

James Aponovich was also inspired by the Dutch masters and I was able to find a video of him working. I thought that he set up his still lives but apparently he works from earlier studies and makes up a great deal as the work progresses. I find this mind boggling; to meld the closely observed style of Dutch still life paintings with the imaginative process of creating objects and settings that do not really exist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD5lxBrcpL0

Animation without dialogue

This is an animated short by Kyu-bum Lee called "Death Buy Lemonade"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaKxLJLj19E.
For now, I am planning on having no dialogue in my own short film. I'm posting Death Buy lemonade because it is a good example of how an animator can portray character and tell a story without words. The viewer understands the little girl's personality solely from her gestures and facial expressions. Excellent use of sound effects and music cue us into gags and clarify what's going on.  

Puntastic

I immediately thought of Tyler when I saw this.

i just lucked into my solution to making gear templates

i just lucked into my solution to making gear templates. i was watching a video on the ETC news channel on youtube this when at the end they pointed their viewers that were interested to a video of a marble music machine built by hand by Martin Molin  also mentioning that he documented the entire process. the process documentation was the key as i clicked on a related video of him making the wooden gears. this video happened to have a link in the description to the program he used to make the designs which is something i have been looking for separate from a CAD program as i needed one dedicated to gears alone. there is the online version and the program version.