Fay Helfer 

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Turtle Puppet Stages

I decided to keep the 5 puppets at each stage of their creation to take some process pictures.

Jan 1st

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The Turtle Inspiration

These are the turtles I grew up with in St. Martin, taken a couple Summers ago at my fathers’ house. I suppose they’re happy there because they would often engage in rampant afternoon orgies - complete with spit, groans and humping … lots and lots of humping … - Here are the pictures that started it all -

Dec 29th

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Mayzie's Stages

Here she is without her clay skin - aluminum wire, mesh and foil, steel piping and pre-baked sculpey eyes. And before the paint… Final turn around… [local TURN_Maisie.mov]

Dec 21st

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Sand version

…and here’s the result in sand, using the footage bellow, frame by frame

Dec 19th

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Title dissolve reference

I didn’t like those random swirls I had done that dissolved the title away - So I then decided to match everything else and  to use more reference footage to rotoscope over. Here is a still image of the title manipulated by Dave Hale in After Effects for the desired motion. [local title_swirl.mov]

Dec 19th

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The bat has landed!

This is almost the final look of the poem. I might add a ground plane paper texture that fades into the distance… or not,  what do you think? Bats 12.15 from Fay Helfer on Vimeo.

Dec 15th

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Bat fly-in

Here’s a lil snippet of what I have sand-rotoscoped of my 3D bat animation so far BATpass 1204 from Fay Helfer on Vimeo.

Dec 3rd