Animation Overdrive: Mime Project

For the next part of our first university project we had to animate a mimed seen with a basic armature frame.

I reused an armature which I bought in first year so all I had to make were hands, hard chest piece to help with animation and a head.

To make the hands I just used a basic technique as we were getting marked on animation and not puppet build. To make the hand i first twisted some strands of wire to make basic hand shape

I then added some brass tubing to wrist and glued it on with some epoxy resin so as I could attach it to my armature

Then using flesh coloured funky foam I traced around my wire hand

I cut out the funky foam and sandwiched the wire hand in between the two halfs

Lastly I cleaned up the hand with small nail scissors and repeated process for the other hand

To make the body and inner core of the head I used balsa wood. I glued strips of balsa together with gorilla glue and once dry I sanded it into the desired shape

I made the head out of sculpy with a balsa wood core. I used two beads for the eyes and made the hair, eye brows and mustache out of plasticine. It was a really basic head and didn't need to consider much such as mouths as it was mime and no lip sync was involved.