Mold ready to pour for Scrummage Sculpture

Have my sculpture ready to pour the mold. I gotta figure something out for the hands. In the neck of the body is a square brass tubing stock. In the neck of the head is also a square brass tubing that is one size smaller. It fits perfectly into the body. This way I don't need to make the whole body a two part mold. I've explained how to clay up a two part mold before in a previous post.

Also interesting is that on many of my previous posts I've gotten a lot of responses posted in chinese. I assumed that these were some weird kind of spam. Thanks to my friend Ying, I gotten some of them translated. Turns out they just inspirational quotes. Weird... Thank you people who are posting your kind words.

Everybody likes forced perspectives

Howdy, howdy. Just finished animating this shot from a film I've been working on for a little over a year now. It's got a forced perspective, which is just cool.

Lord Scrummage Sculpture

This is a sculpture I've been working on for a long time now. The clay is chavant P-40. I'm planning on making a mold of it and making a bunch of plastic figurines. It's for my brother's band Lord Scrummage:

The first picture is the reference picture

Title Sequence

Here is the title sequence that those sculptures were for.

And here's the link if the embedded doesn't work:

http://vimeo.com/9846972

Western Title Sequence from Matt Christensen on Vimeo.

Sculpting! or Holy Shit, this blog still exists

Howdy ya'll,

Remember me? Yeah, we had some times. So I've pretty much finished the animation that I started this blog for and have started back up on another animation that I started a year ago! Been working constantly.

And, for something completely different, here is some sculptures I've made for an assignment. I'm really loving sculpting, I need to get me a good set of tools and some good clay. Now my set of tools include one wooden sculpting knife of some kind, an exacto knife, pencils and pens, and my FAVORITE sculpting tool: TOOTHPICKS!

I've used toothpicks to sculpt every single mouth position in all of my animated films, they're beautiful. I'd like to thank toothpicks right now.......... Thank you. (I really do love them)

Great music in Detroit

This has almost nothing to do with me. My brother and his fellow Detroit music and art collective had a right up in the Metro Times. Gotta show it everywhere I can:

http://www.metrotimes.com/music/story.asp?id=14747

Props!

So, it's been a very long time since I've posted. When I created the blog I thought that maybe I'd post the whole way through, about how I animated and everything. But that seemed weird for some reason. I don't know what to say about actually animating other than techniques that one would learn in any animation class; slow in, slow out, arcs, expression, all dat.

So here are some props I've made. I'm really happy with the tombstone, it's cool. I'm very nearly done, after today I'll only have 3 shots left to animate. I need to build quite a bit for them still, but that's totally awesome!

Television set. Made from posterboard, balsa wood, paint, christmas lights, 9volt, paper clips

Gravestone made from balsa wood, gray wash paint

This is for a close up shot of my head, the brain looked cooler before it was all mushed together.
It's a fucking pillow. What do you want?!?

As, I've told some people, I'm shooting the film in my apartment. That's my bed underneath my table. I have the push it up against the wall when I want to animate. I like it because it'll be a great thing to reminisce about when I'm older.

So, I can do a post about the actual animation, it'll be a while though. Would anyone be interested in that? (Really, I'm just curious to see if anyone I don't know has actually read this, that'd be cool.)