Last weekend Spenser and I created the placeholders for the FX shots for Heart of the Argos. Using our newly realized talents with foam core and hot glue, we had constructed mildly accurate scale models of the different space elements that will be seen in the film. With these we lit and filmed them as if they were the actual shots, so that we can have an accurate representation of their duration, and how they will fit in the flow of the movie.
I think I had a little too much fun doing the puppeteering of the small scale Argos spaceship as it zooms around in space. We attached the model to a bit of stiff wire and puppeteered manually by me, while some long black woman's opera gloves (which are oh so sexy). Surprisingly it created a very convincing effect, my hand and the wire was invisible on the video. Old school is sometimes the best school.I think the best part was when we took the whole operation to the park and started flying it around the sandbox.
1 comment:
sweet models.
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