Friday 9 November 2007

First Blog

I'm not really one for blogs, but hopefully this will be the start of a new trend. It might be the excuse I need to do and publish new artwork and animation.

Anyway, I have here some of my animation feats for your viewing pleasure.

...and I said 'pull yourself together!'

Sunday 18 March 2007

The Green Goblin invades the St Paddy's Parade...

Originally posted on MySpace:


I have here the pictures of the second head I was working on. Unfortunately I don't have any pictures of it during the parade. I'm usually the photographer but instead I was asked to wear the 

blasted thing instead. 


Friday 9 March 2007

The Universe hates me and I hate myself...

Originally posted on MySpace:


Where do I begin...

Ok, the paper-mache head I was working on decided to collapse today!! I guess I simply put too much paper on it (3rd layer). The combined weight of the paper and glue was incredibly heavy. I had no idea it would get that heavy! damn it to hell anyway. While I was working on it, it started to keel over. I quickly grabbed it making holes for my fingers. That wasn't a problem. The problem was the speed with which I caught it combined with gravity causing the weight to pull down on the head, pulling it out of shape. I cleared big gaps of the paper so that I could pull the wire back into shape. That turned out to be a massive mistake (put the damage was already done by this stage anyway). The paper had no grip of its own and just peeled off by its own accord. Damn it to hell. It was  just painful to look at in the end. I didn't even bother to take pictures of it till I took all  the paper off. But I did take pictures of the project as I went along and I have them here. . 

In the beginning. You can see I was ill-prepared for its
future weight, but that did eventually change long before
the real trouble...


This picture was taken on Wednesday. The school (where
I was working) was closed Thursday. It was looking pretty
good, no? This was the result of three steady days of
pasting...