August 30, 2011

Welcome - 'Gardens of Miranda' Sci-Fi Stop Motion Series

The year is 2185, and astrobiologist Jack Pure-Folly and his assistant Effie are conducting a field study on the newly-discovered planet Miranda, during the course of which they make some startling discoveries. Jack and Effie also happen to be robots.

Miranda’s atmosphere is lethal to humans, so Dante, the field study’s supervisor, decides to send the two robots to gather data and allow him to conduct the expedition remotely from his ship in geosynchronous orbit above the planet. Everything goes according to plan for the first two weeks, and then things start to get interesting.

This is the debut of my journal about the making of Gardens of Miranda, a stop-motion animated film designed as a per-episode downloadable series. The world of Miranda is realized through models and miniature stop-motion puppets, all animated sequentially in a frame by frame process. Those frames are assembled into shots and sequences and combined with a wide array of additional elements to create the final film.

I will be doing online updates about the production, making of, overview of the creation of models, miniatures, puppets, and other aspects of this project.



The above photos are samples of the behind the scenes. As I proceed with this journal, I will post more details & description. In a few weeks, as they become available, I will be posting teaser clips of the animated sequences. So stay tuned & boomark Gardens of Miranda and/or subscribe to this blog-journal's RSS Posts feed (see right sidebar).

9 comments:

  1. Exciting stuff man!

    Ill be watching for sure.

    jriggity

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  2. I'll be looking out for it! Good premise, promising storyline, and we know your design and animation will be first-rate!

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  3. That's a beautiful armature... Very curious whose work it is. Looks a bit like Jeff Taylor's stuff in the shoulders, but with one of LIO's neck joints?

    Very excited to see this!

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  4. I see the slickified King Kong armature in above photo :) that I fabricated for Tony some years ago. If you're talking about neck 'hose joint', I first saw Tony doing those joints. Looks like Kong armature has been repurposed & modified for use as another creature character!

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  5. Nice work LIO!

    Actually, it was the whack-over(tm) step-block that was instantly recognizable as yours.

    Those are some good looking joints! I'm guessing 1018 steel that's been coated to prevent rust. But what can you coat steel with??

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  6. Hi, Tony,
    I'm Peter from Hungary and I think this project is very promising. I'm spreading the word about stop motion at my blog, so I'm sure I'll also post about Gardens of Miranda someday. Of course I'll give you credit (I have already posted a video of yours earlier and I gave you credit as I always do.)
    This will be a great blog!

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  7. It looks great. I only hope more of that wonderful detail on your Helibug is seen it the next episode. I also love your Harryhausen sculpts. The Seabeast one is breath taking.

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  8. This is very very beautiful I really enjoy for making these things,the most greatful for me is how i build my own armatures with low-costs and with no machines.The first time i knew about this i can't stop of making.

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  9. This is very very beautiful I really enjoy for making these things,the most greatful for me is how i build my own armatures with low-costs and with no machines.The first time i knew about this i can't stop of making.

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