Im working on a mixed stop motion / live action / CGI pop video for the Swedish darkwave band Bast.
Although the original idea was to produce and animate a creature, that lurks in some wet murky water, it expanded (exponentially- as my ideas tend to) into including a band shoot in an underground disused bomb shelter, filming my grand-daughter Lona walking ina. corridor in Nesoddparken, and the 3d scanning some of the above and building a 3d modelled version in Blender.
Elements in the video:
The turkish bath.
As the song has a slightly ethnic, or turkish scale in it I got to thinking about the creature living in an old abandoned Turkish Bath, so I built one.
The creature.
Experimenting with casting and latex is new for me.
3D Scanning
Although I have played with this technique before, it was fun scanning a real sized corridor that Lona walks down, and also my word and plaster model of the Bath House, and then getting them to stick together in Blender. This enabled me to design “flythrus” in blender.
Later I even scanned Lona, and I’m currently learning to rig and skin her, so she can also appear in this environment.
Stop motion.
Animating the monster is turning out to be extremely difficult and slow, and more worryingly, Im not certain the “bath” will hold. It will be over 100 liters of water, which might be “too much” for the plastic Ikea box. In fact it sprang a leak, and in just a few minutes there was water all over the place. So, shooting as much as I can without water first.
