I have been working on the tree for the hill scene, the puppets and putting the final touches on the stage.

Turns out that giving the puppets teeth can make them a bit fun looking. It works for the smiles but it doesn't work for anything else. I spent most of Friday relaxing and working on expressions for the puppets. To save time and material, I have made around 3 - 4 mouths to show expression. The character's eyebrows and the assistant's hair will remain as wet clay so we can move them.

I have started putting latex on the second set of arms I made and will do the second half on tuesday. I had to make two new sets of arms, as the two sets I used in my test with the liquid latex turn out poorly and a much darker tone than I wanted. This is probably due to the fact I went over board with the brown paint. This isn't a total loss though as the arms I picked for the test were the ones that I considered of the low quality. Remaking the arms meant that I could improve the size and shape of the arms in regards to the character proportions.

On Wednesday 5 of October, Liam cooked the heads I crafted for our characters. It went mostly according to plan, with the exception of two brunt noses, the magician and one of the police men. Hope I can fix this problem with some paint.

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I have started painting the faces and hands to have a matching skin. this requires multiple layers of paint to cover the clay as it doesn't absorb the paint very well.

Currently I feel a bit split, due to the multiple assignments I have due. While I feel I am most on track to finish the stop motion over the comic (I'm going to need to bust a gut to get the 2D done. You might see me in hospital soon) I am a bit fed up with the stop motion. This is mainly due to the fact I find that I end doing most of the work. I had a hand in every part of the build, if I didn't build the whole bit. About the only thing that is solely Liam's work is the seating in the stage scene and to be quite frank he hasn't done a very good job.

Yes, I'm being a bit mean to Liam in this post, but I'm just looking back at the assignment and seeing a lot of my blood, sweat and tears and not a lot of completed work from Liam.

The heads look fine I guess, but I had to cut some clay away from the mouths as the faces seems to have shrank when they were cooked.