FATICA ARSENAL PRODUCTIONS

Trying out some tests of the animation. As you can see, the entire background is blue screen. This way, I can easily key out the background, and drop in the clouds and trees like the picture from the previous post. There's Hanna standing at the grave.

The graveyard came together pretty quick. I bought some dried flowers to randomly place throughout. I'm pretty happy the way it turned out.

I took a photo and made a composite. This is pretty close to what it will look like in the film.

 I needed to mix up dirt, so I used Fast and Final spackling. I mixed in some coarse sand, and some tempra paint to give it the color I wanted. I added a little bit of water to thin it out just a bit.  Then I started spreading it on like cake frosting. I'm working in s...

I needed to create gravestones for the family plot. I started by carving foam, and painting them gray. I then used some dry brushing techniques to make them look older, and then added some algae/moss to them so they look like they have been there for a long time. You c...

I glued some styrofoam sheets together and let them dry over the weekend. Using sandpaper, I started shaping the hills and slopes. I'm planning on using this set as 2 separate locations. The rectangle in the middle is where the grave of Hanna's Aunt will be. I'm making...

One of things that's very important to me in creating this set is making the grass and plant life look real, and not like carpet, or a train model. Grass is uneven, and many different colors and textures. I will show the progress in the next few posts of how I will imp...

Happy new year! Right before Christmas I finished building the staircase. I will show it in a later post. The Lab is as finished as it can be right now. The final details will be completed when the set goes "hot" and I'm ready for those scenes (cobwebs dust etc...)

Tod...