03/03/2023
1. Anna Mantzaris
The movie illustrates how seemingly insignificant actions can have significant effects. The movie depicts the luscious surfaces and tactile textures of a handcrafted universe. The puppets and sets are all constructed of natural materials like felt, card, paper, wool, cotton, and wood to fit the natural theme of Honest.
What I am interested in is the material they used for the whole set comes from nature. The cotton, the wool, the wood all of it makes it to another level of realness.
2. Marc James Roels and Emma dswaf
Pure wool felt for scene construction.
Furry leaves, bushes and plant surfaces. The entire animation has its own unity in the form of wool felt. It is also undeniable that felted wool adds a certain degree of movement to the set design.
3. Ainslie Henderson–SHACKLE
Using the real world as a set is undoubtedly a very complex challenge. Firstly, because the set is in a real mountain, the slightest change in its location will have a significant impact on the outcome. Some of the wind and grass may look small in real life, but in an animated shot, it can be uncontrollable and very variable. But on the contrary, this double-edged sword is also an outstanding novelty in the set, bringing vivid life into the world of animation and making our characters’ stories seem real.
4. Research ‘What kind of material we can use in building a set in stop-motion animation, especially in scenic plants ?’
Stop-motion animation of scenic plants
- Real trees, leaves and clay as raw material
- Simulated trees
- paper to make leaves
- Buying turf
- collect stones of different sizes and colours
- laser printing, 3d printing
5. Terrain construction: Scene model
First, we start by fixing a rough topography of the scene using foam board and toothpicks. The following stage is to shape it into the shape we need, which can also be used to achieve the effect of a large or small mountain forest. The second part is to mix some shredded paper towels with white latex and then layer them on top of the foam board to wrap it all up and dry it. One of the intriguing parts of this video for me was that the author bought some different shades of green powder and mixed it with the glue, at a certain consistency you can squeeze it by hand to make the shape of the bush you want, I thought we could experiment with this plasticity. The last thing you need to do is to paint it to your design and it’s a set!