First shot Hero at 18 before tweaking clothing details. Shirtsleeves cut from inside a duvet's thin seams - the only white cotton available during the initial lockdown!
'Audrey' character design & build, Aardman Academy Final Project (film pitch piece)
'Audrey' original storyboard drawing
'Audrey' shortened armature from spare parts
Single thin wire fingers / Fimo
Modelling thin hands with raised bones
'Audrey' character single wire fingers and Fimo clay hands - a girl who has been underfed during wartime Holland for many months retains a dancers frame.
Design & Build of the Hero
The Hero at 20 years old
Head measurements
Modelling the head air-dried clay
Early wired armature
3 models in the making
Wired hand
Hand wrapping: wet wipes / tights
Final hand sculpt
Arm build: wet wipe wrap
Head sketch 16 years
Character concept drawing: age 16
Small model, paper clothing, cardboard and paper bicycle
The Hero readies himself for D-Day
Plasticine head character Aardman Academy final project
White cat plasticine head / model before adding fur
Scare Taxi
The Crow Captain
Jack O'Green forest character design & rough modelling
Model design and fabrication 'Lunacy' music video. Light wire, polystyrene and blu-tac head stretched cotton wet wipe tissue.
Queen Of The Moon: larger scale 1:4 character model fabricated from found and recycled plastics. Air dried clay head.