Bringing dolls to life: Animated GIFs
I did a little playing around this last week animating the littlest sister in On Our Own.
Technique
On Our Own
Starting Fern’s Story – Adventuring with dolls
It seems I often find my dolls like this, sitting in chairs (or benches, in this case) waiting for their adventure to begin.
(Re)Begin the Beguine
Here’s the thing – there’s a rhythm to a graphic novel panel that just isn’t there where you post all of the photos in a blog.
Behind the scenes
Behind the scenes: On our own 1
In lieu of a premise song (“here’s a story, of three girls named after plants . . .”), I’ve created a premise episode for On Our Own
From an adventure tale to a story of kinship
My Overhead/Up-Above/who-knows-what-else-I’ve-called-it has gone through its (hopefully) final change. Because I recognize that the treehouse/adventure angle just isn’t where the heat is, I’m going to redo it from the beginning (which I had to do anyway, due to all of the wig changes) to focus on what matters. That is, to focus on the sweet relationship between the sisters.
Dancing dolls
I take back everything I said about Olive’s (my Iplehouse Amy doll’s) posing ability in my previous post. Apparently, although she’s not always able to resist the forces of gravity, she can totally dance.
From each according to their abilities
My fashion dolls all have pretty similar posing abilities. Not so my ball-joint dolls. Working on the treehouse with the three sisters, I’m finding that I have to re-write the episode based on who can do what, instead of based on the characters themselves.
Back to the treehouse
When I started working again on this story, I realized how incredibly slapdash and haphazard I’d become about setting up for episodes – just grab a few items, set up the camera, and shoot.
I *could* do that for the treehouse, but I’m expecting them to spend much of the next year there, so I think I have to slow down and really create a space that works.