Sunday, February 27, 2011

Scene 10 = Playblasted!


Check it out here!

Catchu Picchu

Aaaaaannnnndddd finally.... Catchu Picchu - the final set.

***Special thanks to Candy and Killi for helping me make pom poms!!!









A Midwestern Mess...

"The City was once an industrial metropolis, filled with smoke-belching factories amidst the hive of working drones. It was a place that grew overnight while the hard workers lost their souls to it in pursuit of wealth, devoid of good taste and individuality. It was an ugly, frightning place even in it's glittering heyday. But, once the hodgepodge of industry began to shut down, the optimism shut down with it. It became a rusted reservation for the poor and broken, a place of gray skies and crumbling steel mills in the midst of 'anywhere'. "

This is where the main character lives. It's technically three sets in one, both the house and factory have a finished interior room (similar to a dollhouse) for additional shooting.

I received a lot of help from Killi, Hafiz, Daniel, and Jeff on this set!!!... :)

Exterior City's Materials:
*Chipotle Burrito Bowl tins (thanks MFACAmigos and Madre)
*dollhouse doors and windows
*manila mailing envelopes
*cardboard
*black ink
*glue
*thin plexi glass
*grid wire
*plywood
*duct tape
*balsa wood*tin foil
*paint
*gaffer's tape
*paper bags

Materials 4 Factory Interior:
*gaffer tape
*duct tape
*black ink
*random trash

Materials 4 House Interior:
*sugar packets (thanks Melissa L.)
*shredded paper
*paper bags
*sponge
*dollhouse furniture
*food receipts
*three legged goat
*cardboard












Holie Chipolte


Papap: This "Keep Out" sign is for you! :)












Cat Land Beach Set

This set will be shot entirely in HD video, not in stop motion or still photography. My most-amazing-talented friend Adri is making some crochet Cat God arms to transform my actors into feline gods. These gods will turn the ferris wheel and ocean in the background...


List of Materials 4 the Beach Set :
*yarn*beach towel
*two bike tires
*threaded rod*basswood
*glitter
*duct tape
*wrapping paper cardboard tube
*chickenwire
*glitter
*paint
*bike pedal
*bolts
*pompoms
*wood

List of Materials 4 Ocean:
*tinsel
*my Madre's jeans
*a pillow case*some felt scraps
*sequin strings
*yarn
*doilies
*plastic bags
*an old sheet*tulle
*ribbon
*washcloths









Ferris Wheel - I made this when I was 19 for an undergrad design project - it was a toy ferris wheel made out of found materials called "The Swamp Bitch"











Special thanks to my Madre, Papap, and Grandma for helping me with this set. (My Madre and Grandma worked together to cover the entire ferris wheel in yarn).


And another special thanks to Jean for making some great g/litterboxes !

Friday, February 25, 2011

Happy Helpers!

I have had some amazing helpers with my sets !!! I don't have pictures of everyone :( but I would definitely like to credit my friends Killi, Daniel, Jean, Candy, Hafiz, and Jeff as well as my mom and grandparents for giving me some of their time and art skillz! ;)

Some pictures of me, my sets, and their status in November:
((these pictures show the early stages of Cat Land's forest grove... )


((Daniel's working on the cross-section of the Cat Tunnel which you can see in it's final stages here, here, and here.))


((Jean making some g/litter box gondolas for the ferris wheel!))


((Over the summer, Hafiz made all four sides of the factory in an Adobe Illustrator doc, to be used as a template for the shop bot machine. This saved me from spending 1,000 years cutting out over thirty windows on the front of the factory alone. Eeef...))

((In November: Killi and Daniel helped me cover the entire front of my factory in cardboard bricks, which also saved me 1,000 years of gluing time...))



((Highlighted here is my Napoleon complex, I spread out -- taking the studio by storm...))