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Turning Heads

Friday, April 2, 2010

One of the challenges we faced during preproduction was figuring out how best to create movings heads for our characters. We needed them to turn left and right in tiny increments and to also look up and down. The solution we came up with worked like a charm.

Building Wire Armatures

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

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When brainstorming how best to build our characters, I drew inspiration from one of my favourite childhood toys... the Pink Panther. Many of you may be familiar with this type of bendy rubber toy which allows you to pose the character into any position and it retains its shape. This was due to what lay at its core, a wire armature.