NASA School Stop Motion Short Film

I have started an ambitious project for this summer. In three weeks I am trying to have a completed short film called NASA School, a stop motion film about two not so astronauts and a scientist that I wouldn't trust with a bunsen burner.

It is week two and I have a lot of cool stuff that I have been working on:

This was the what I started with. The character's name is Rookie and I think he really is just an extension of myself in clay because we really look a lot alike.

I started with making the wire armature and then sculpted the head.

Then I made the eyes out of white clay and poked a whole in them. I put the eyes in the toaster oven for 15 minutes to harden so then I can paint it.

With a piece of wire I was able get a nice pupil by putting a bunch of black paint on the end of the wire and then putting the wire in the whole. Since the whole is just big enough for the wire, the paint comes off in a fairly even circular way.

Early concept art for Rookie. The end product changed in the end. I am by no means a good drawer.

If only I had the film for this camera... Its my new love.

 Adding some meat on the bones....

 Finished padding added to the skeleton so that his clothes fit well.
















On to the costume...

Glued on pockets. It was interesting to look at flight suites of astronauts and look at where the pockets are. Which the are on the front of the pants rather than the side of them like we are use to when we wear jeans.

Every astronaut has to have his patches....

...And a helmet.

 Character 2: Rocket

This is when I put the Tee Nuts in his feet so that he can connect to the floor.

Making the Rocket's patches. Not shown but I have to redo his name patch because I forgot the "C" in Rocket when I wrote it the first time.

 Creating the set for the scenes with Rookie. Mostly just cardboard and hot glue.

The Centrifuge cockpit set