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Introduction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For this project at freestyle, students are able to choose what kind of skills they want to improve and or learn in two weeks with a project of choice. Although It has to relate to the chosen elective each student is in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For English and Digital Media its.a bit different. In english we explored poetry and eventually used the skills we learned in class to write a poem of our own<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Digital media We created this web page, and a fun music recording production. In where students collaborated in Freestyle music studio to create a music production project<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stop Motion Puppet Design<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For My explorations project I wanted to revisit an older project we did an animation which was stop motion puppet design. I wanted to bring one of design to life again. And for this puppet i knew I wanted it to be some kind of monster. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Concept<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

So I started with concept art for my design. This process took me the least amount of time because I had previous drawings and drafts of this monster. I swiftly moved on to the building process. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stage one<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Building the frame is the number one step when doing stop motion puppet design and the starting point for many sculptures. To begin you start with aluminum armature wire and build it based of your conecpt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stage 2<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Stage two of the building process is building the frame up.You can various different type materials to this, Polymer clay, air dry clay, Aluminum foil or bandages. For My I decided to go with bandages because of its light weight and its easy use. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stage 3<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Stage 3 of the design process is putting the finalizing touches of the additions you added to the frame, bandages, clay, etc… Additional I wanted to paint the puppet different color from the bandages to I wrapped it in white. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Final production<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Usually after stage 3 you can move on to the final production of the puppet. Adding paint final touches, and materials such as fabric and fur. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So With my puppet finalized I took final production shots, this includes an over view of the model, and cool dynamic shots. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Presentations <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I presented this project to my fellow juniors Freestyles Film room. I used slides to Create interesting presentations where I covers similar topics that I mentioned previously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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