puppet movies

We've been cutting loose and getting away from our computers with a little puppetry lately. We decided to make a psychological thriller, so some of the crew have been trawling the streets for foam and fabric to be reincarnated as our characters, and we spent some late nights putting them together. Today is a holiday day here, so we made it a day of filming.

We discovered that puppetry is very difficult.
Making them puppets.
Getting in awkward positions.
Watching the rushes with a beer at the end of the day. thanks Doron for the pics!

painting snails

Ah, paint. Real paint. The stuff that stinks, that your 2 year old wipes on the carpet (amongst other stuff). My entrance hall is a large expanse of concretey nothingness, now enlivened by this snail. Like I said, I'm painting bugs, but I switched from acrylics to oils (mainly because I love the stink) for the next painting, a dragonfly, and it's turning out CRAP.

Will post when I've wrestled it into submission. I think I bought some defect paint. That's it.

In the meantime, here's the snail, and the Photoshop preliminary sketch, that l0oks nothing like it.

xJP

Close up heads

These are two more guys from that earlier sketch. I've got to start working on drawing bodies...

Heads

Can't get enough of drawing heads. you can see how the ogre from the last post started off...These are an assortment of characters for an project I'm cooking with the crew here. I like to scan pen and ink lines, fill-em up with paint, and see where it takes me. Sometimes I get to the point where the drawing looks better without the black lines, and it becomes a painting.

bug

In an attempt to do up my very block-like apartment, I'm doing some paintings. I started with a snail, which I think is going to lead to a series of Bugs...my son requested a dragonfly for the next one.

This is the preliminary sketch, will post the final oil painting when it's done!

GRR

Ugly, ugly, ugly. Fun.
More experiments in painting technique. I started with a bunch of transparent layers of colour before slapping on 100% opaque colour. Liking the solid -ness.

bwahaha

inspired to get all painty and scratchy and..itchy today. This is a scary mask. It is not satan.

Fairy tale business

Tried two different approaches to Background sketches today. The first was rendering a sketch in Black and white and laying colour over it, and the second was taking a tiny little thumbnail, blowing it up and playing with it. Personally I like the thumbnail approach- makes more more boldness and happy accidents.

See what you think.

Eye Guy

A character for a little short we're working on in our free time. Digital paintover by me, model by our talented all rounder, Talia Shapir.

Street sketch

Had a fun mosey through North tel Aviv last weekend. Sat and watched the uber-trendies air kissing in the cafes on Dizengoff St. Brought back some doodles.

Yeah!

Lemmings see their goals and act decisively.

Sketchbook

Recently had a fun sound session recording for an animatic. Whilst the guy searched around for the best *whump!* and *splat!* noises on his sound system I drew heads.

Cluedo Guy

Painted this and he turned out like one of those characters from Cluedo- who was the green one?

gasp!

I painted three lemmings for three colleagues this week, who all had birthdays...this is Dudu- the nervous one...Went back to the old school of brush and gouache for this. Really enjoyed that spiritual connection of pushing colour around on a page. when I say spiritual, I mean that which makes us stop thinking about anything else- when we get lost in the 'now'. Guess we all experience that in different ways. ..anyway. scanned the images and did some photoshop cheating with this one.

Happy birthday Nir, Keren, and Yanai. Have a brilliant year.

Barbarian dude

I can only draw ugly people. With helmets on.