Alien Head eye test

[hennesprod]

Hello,

Again it has been a few months since I have been on the list. (Been animating) But, I have been working a few puppets for a personal project involving aliens, a farm dog, a boy, radical chickens, Mice and homework. Here is a Eye test for one of the aliens. For Scale reference, this head fits in the palm of my hand.

http://www.hennesproductions.com/alien_eyes.avi

Cheers,

William

 

[ravagefrackle]

looks great william, well done, is thiera reason the video is upside down?

 

[Blink]

Hey William,

It looks great! You are doing what I wanted to start expeimenting with. Using mechs inside of latex rubber faces is somthing that I thought would work very well. I am assuming it is latex rubber and not foam latex that you are using. I like latex rubber and the life involved with the material compared to foam latex. Thanks for the inspiration.

What did you use for your head skeleton? Carved foam? Fiberglass? Injected foam?

Great work.

P.S. At first I had problems with the video file too, but I finally opened it with Windows Media Player and it was perfectly fine (image wasn't upside down).

 

[Buck-Beaver]

It seems to be using a weird codec, I had to open it with Windows Media Player too. If anyone can't open it try loading it in to Windows Moviemaker and playing it back through that.

 

[Beauregard]

That was quite fabulous, btu also flipping scarey!

 

[hennesprod]

Hey William,


What did you use for your head skeleton? Carved foam? Fiberglass? Injected foam?

QUOTE]

His skull is made of Epoxy Putty and is light and is as hard as a rock. Later I will make a mold out of silicone and then cast his skull in plastic. If you guys are interested, I will put together a tutorial on how I created him.
Oh, yes his skin is latex rubber.

William

 

[hennesprod]

Doh!

It seems to be using a weird codec, I had to open it with Windows Media Player too. If anyone can't open it try loading it in to Windows Moviemaker and playing it back through that.

Thanks Andrew. I shot the footage in my quickcam and saved it with Mpeg compression. I will convert it and put it up as a quicktime as well.

William

 

[Buck-Beaver]

The tutorial sounds like a great idea, I think everyone here would appreciate it!

 

[hennesprod]

ALien Skull Exposed

Hello all,

Here are some links exposing the alien skull. If you have trouble opening the the AVI, Andrew listed a solution to this a few reply back. Also, I have included a still image and some concept work of the Alien. I will be posting a a whole tut on this next week( or sooner) on how it was created.

Currently I am using a micro servo hooked up to a game joy stick for control.( I created a circut to handle this) The rest of him will be controled by rod on cables. (I will expose this thinking as well). The material used to create the skull is a epoxy putty that when hard can give you a shell to drill and sand. Although I would not use it for larger puppet skulls, it would tend to be to heavy.

http://www.hennesproductions.com/skull_side.jpg
http://www.hennesproductions.com/skullC.avi
http://www.hennesproductions.com/alien_concepts.gif

William

 

[Beauregard]

I'm looking forward to see the completed Alien! I tell you!