Well this week we definitely were put to the test and went full speed. Finally through the kitpices onto the ship and did some rough up to give it the old and aged look. Kaan’s and Kyle’s artistry skills are…
Tag: fabrication
Race to the End
Tagged with: artists, collaboration, craft, creativity, design, fabrication, Kit bashing, scale, special effects
GELing It All Together
Hello! A lot of stuff has happened since my last post, but let me try to catch you up on what I’ve been working on for the past couple of weeks… When my team was working out how the “skin”…
Tagged with: 3D printing, craft, Crystal Gel, fabrication, how to, Refund High School, sfx, special effects
Da Arm Puns! (And Other Team Activities)
My other teammates have touched on some of our failures, our success, and our technical processes, so I am going to speak on our collaboration and what the diversity of our members has brought to the table. In our group,…
Tagged with: collaboration, craft, Da Arm, Da Puns, design, fabrication, Horror, learning, process, silicone
We are, DaArm!
Welcome to “DaArm!” An exploration into what makes us react physically to the things we see. That may sound sort or philosophical, but what our team is trying to accomplish is a grotesque, horrific effect to make an audience squirm.…
Tagged with: collaboration, creativity, DaArm, fabrication, Horror, inspiration, process, special effects
Something Scary, Something New, Something Cackles, Something blue!
Scooby Doo is one of the most widely recognizable, and long running cartoons of all time clocking in at almost 50 years of thrilling mystery solving and hijinks. I remember being at Thanksgiving gatherings and finding that one of the…
Tagged with: ABS Rod, collaboration, craft, creativity, design, design brief, EL wire, fabrication, Horror, Kook, learning, prototype, Puppetry, Scooby Doo, Space, Space Kook, Spooky
Getting Things Started
This project originated from the thought: if we are going to have access to these facilities, to these materials and these professionals for guidance, why not go big? When I was originally formulating the pitch my thought process was to take…
Tagged with: collaboration, costumes, craft, eva foam, fabrication, fail better, film, Helmet, higher ed, learning, process, prototype, Short Film, special effects, WIP
How’s it Going?
It’s been practically 2 months, dozens of prototypes, and so much stress. We’ve fallen into the routine of creation; that is we have figured out how both create and solve problems. We’ve learned what materials we want, and what materials we…
Tagged with: collaboration, craft, creativity, fabrication, higher ed, inspiration, raptor, Raptor Puppet, Zip Ties
The Power of Collaboration: Bridging the digital divide
Building our future, together. Last spring, I reached out to Radio Television and Film Faculty wunderkind Ben Bays and invited him to join us as a guest artist for our Enron Raptor class. Our Department of Theatre & Dance students…
Tagged with: animation, artists, collaboration, creativity, design, fabrication, higher ed, Raptor Puppet, risk, teaching
Skin: The Fabric Of Our Lives
All three partners on the skin artistry team are tailors/dressmakers by trade. So, when tasked with the assignment of putting flesh on a velociraptor, our team decided to stick to what we know and approach this project as a sort…
Tagged with: Clay Sculpting, Dinosaur Skin, fabrication, Hydrostone, Mask Latex, raptor, Raptor Puppet, special effects, Templates, The Creative Process
Testing Grounds
This week, the raptor was given its first run on the testing grounds. The Director of Enron Raptors, Hannah Wolf, came in to provide feedback about the progression of the prototypes. The electronics corner of which I reside was particularly…
