for my latest film – I added some characters to the the woods – this time it’s a Singapura Cat and a noisy Fruit Bat
some behind the scenes of the characters in production
the fruit bat who hangs from a tree
a dozen sparkling stars for the night sky
the characters are ready for the shoot
the final film – “Full Moon”:
one of my favorite illustrators, Renee French, had a little contest to draw a character similar to hers so of course I drew a bunny…
my son, Luca, with a Renee French drawing:
two lobsters discussing the subtle differences in language across the pond from eachother
the first drawing is a lobster eating his favorite snack of fresh corn
Storyboard sketch for Lobster Talk…
the film:
The next film up is Fox and Bird – the puppets are getting more refined now that I understand the medium better and the level of detail I can achieve on film. The story is a phone call between a Fennec Fox and his friend, Bird
to achieve the screen swipe – I printed a couple dozen photoshopped screen images to carefully pull out with an X-Acto knife and replace between shots
here is the final film:
With the energy of the class I just attended – I wanted to start on my first stop-motion film using more elaborate paper puppets and a few characters layered on the multiplane setup. First I used a heavy cardstock/bristol board to cut out the basic characters, then I pained each with acrylic and hinged the elements together with thin wire and gaffer’s tape
I heard the story of these little fish called lumpsuckers and was fascinated
and a little film with my sons…
here is the 1 minute version of the franco the bunny trailer:
franco takes the train to florence to find a shop for glasses…
working on an illustration of the cat as he reaches across the cart of fresh lavender…
Today marks exactly 3 months since I started the Franco the Bunny book project – thanks everyone for your emails, comments and getting to 1k subscribers on the book page – I really appreciate all the support
here is Franco meeting Marrone for the first time…
this is Marrone as the drawing was getting started…
Franco the bunny 