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Set Fabrication
Interior shot of the Jail. | Jail house cell. The cell had a sliding door and removable upper bar section so it could be plated then removed for animation access. | Interior shot with a bench and copy machine. |
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Working Front doors to the Jail | There are multiple Concho Bolo sets, Kevin Fallon and I were responsible for the initial build. | The interior props of the pawn shop were picked by me and some alterations to the initial build. |
Vac formed guard rails and groundwork. | Vac formed guard rails and groundwork. | Functioning sliding gate door, man door, and lights. |
The exterior of the jailhouse was created to match the miniature. Designed as multiple sections so that the back lot and front doors were able to be shot independently or placed together for wide shots. | Roughly OH scale. | Roughly OH scale. |
Walls by Kevin Fallon. Furniture fabricated by myself, the bed is soldered brass to avoid damage during animation. | Walls by Kevin Fallon. Furniture fabricated by myself, the bed is soldered brass to avoid damage during animation. | Close up shot of the Downtown Miniature set. We used prefab houses, I was mainly responsible for the layout and groundwork of the set. |
The miniature set could be redressed and shifted depending on the shot. |
Prop Fabrication
The chair & stool are premade doll toys covered in fake leather. | The camera is made up of several pieces of model kits and resin. | The blender is a modified toy and jar. |
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Puppets are hand stitched felt. Hot tube is strips of pine and plastic edging. | Air Horns consist of a vac form bell with dowel base. | Scooter was created by combining two other tows and adding a brass foot plate for puppet tie down. |
Van: Modified toy car with additional pizza sign and exhaust pipes. | Sword: MDF blade with stryene and wire ornaments. | |
Toy glass with vacform whip cream. | Box: Made with 100% natural cardboard. | Hand-sewn undies. |
Hand-sewn felt puppets with built in wire armatures. |
W.I.P Shots
Modified HO buildings, dowels, styrene and functioning lights. | Front Facade | Window detail. |
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Back lot entrance, working doors. | The lights would be changed to larger can lights in the final version. | Rough layout and finalized light poles. |
Rear detail | Toy Base with added styrene and MDF box. | O.G. van before modification. |
The van was created to match the full size version which entailed reducing behind the rear wheel and mid section. Creating an animatable pizza sign and exhaust pipes on sides. | Setting up down town before creating landscape and additional details like the side walk. | The Jail consisted of five walls, stocks and counter. Intended to be split into a front and back half. |
MDF and styrene. | Sliding door on track and removable top bars for animation access. | Room for lighting and paper to be animated. |
MDF/Aluminum tape blade, styrene and wire. | Kit bashed pieces and resin base camera. | Kit bashed pieces and resin base camera. |
Modified toy and jar. | ||
Large shovel created to match OH scale. | Hand sewn. | |
Miniature created to match large scale. (Only Miniature) | Miniature created to match large scale. | Miniature created to match large scale. (Only Miniature) |
Miniature created to match large scale. | Miniature created to match large scale. (Only Miniature) | Miniature created to match large scale. (Only Miniature) |
Functioning | Soldered brass and separates for animation access. | Soldered brass and separates for animation access. |
MDF and kit bash details. | Responsible for pulling props and arrangement. | Responsible for pulling props and arrangement. |
Responsible for pulling props and arrangement. | Toy Chair covered in fake leather. | |
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