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The painting process..

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Then I baked the figure at 130 in the oven for 15 mins. After this I sanded down any rough areas to create a smooth surface for painting.

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Initially I made a round shape out of tinfoil to act as the base of the frogs body. Then I covered this in super sculpey polymer clay and sculpt out with small tools the face shape.

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Here are my initial concept sketches of my frog character. On the second page you can see how I have split up the limbs into sections based on how I planned to assemble the pieces of clay between wire to allow them to be bendable.

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The character I decided to create for my summer project would be a frog. So over the summer I found some frogs to photograph and observe how they move. This way when I create my human-like frog design it will be more informed.

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http://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/handle/10539/13614

anthropomorphism: studying animal behaviours and movements and combining them with human like characteristics and personality. This creates a relatable nature to animal characters in animation.

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https://patents.google.com/patent/US5741140A/en

This interesting article explains armature in more depth which I used as reference for my own 3d puppet I made this summer.

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http://www.sculpt-double.co.uk/projects/tag/Arch+Model+Studio

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In February I was able to visit Arch Model Sudios in London and got to talk with Andy Gent. This studio works on stop motion animation and puppetry in advertisements and films, including movies directed by Tim burton and Wes Anderson. In my visit Andy Gent really wanted to emphasise that armature has an extremely important role in stop motion puppetry. He advised me to think more about how the characters I make would move and how the armature would facilitate that. Here are some pictures of the work spaces I took during my visit...

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Some more interesting pages from the ‘Book of British Birds’ , featuring scientific illustrations

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The bodies of birds “must combine extreme lightness with compact, robust construction.” This honeycombed bone shows how “air spaces strengthened by criss-crossing struts, arranged like the struts on an aeroplane’s framework” make it possible for birds to fly. - Book of British Birds - readers digest

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Sculpture of a bird using fine tools

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https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ljmu/reader.action?docID=1910128

Method meets art: arts based research practice by Leavy, P.

An interesting book. I’ve mainly been reseeding chapters 5,7, and 8.

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https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rstb.1979.0053

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Recorded some close up preserved bird anatomy from the Natural History Museum. I particularly found the wing span information and taxidermy very interesting and intend on looking more closely into the movement of birds in flight .

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Photographs of different types of bird feet from the Natural History Museum, London

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Subject/ Theme:

For the future thinking brief I will look at animal studies and naturalist documentation. I am interested in observing the anatomy of animals and the ways in which they move and interact.

For my research I will focus on scientific illustration and books initially, as well as documentaries such as “our world’’, as well as older resources like beastiaries which merge fiction and biology and incorporate old cultural methods of teaching moral messages.