Update on the Modelmaking

I have been working on the model lately, I'm still waiting on the mould making workshop at the end of this week, but I can still get on with the bodywork.

So I've completed the next stage, adding the foam:

                                                                                                                                                                                  I didn't buy the foam in the end, there was enough left over from the workshop with henry for me to use. I used a mixture of white foam (thin) and the orangy foam (medium).

During the week we had refresher workshops with Stan, and I asked him how to remove rigs, and he showed me two quite simple ways. One was using something called content-aware in Photoshop, and the other was a simple wire removal in After Effects. But afterwards I remembered a way that Henry had told us, which was to take a picture of the background before filming with the rig, then have the background as another layer behind the video and simple erase the rig.

So I realised that I could create some of the complicated shots using a rig. The only problem was that  I covered up the rigging point in the armature, thinking I wouldn't need it. So I had to drill to find it.

                                                 

But I managed to just about get to it, and I had some of the dowel left to use as a rig for now, the only problem is its a little short, so I might need to get a longer one.