Sign Language

HAND SHAPES

I was a Sign Language Interpreter for over 10 years and am fluent in American Sign Language. This had a major role in the development of the animation, the frog's character and armature design. The frog's hands are individually sculpted hand shapes that are real symbols used in ASL. They are switched out much like the phonetic mouth shapes are when animating speech.  The hands move from one language symbol to another with 2 to 3 transition hand shapes in between to make the movements smooth and readable.

Space Ships

 The Mother Ship is designed like a lamp and is mounted to a stand that allows for multiple set configurations.

Mother Ship Abduction Set


              

The Escape Pod had a few paint jobs

 before deciding on the silver.

 The final has a plastic canopy with a 

 carved and painted frog inside.

Frog Crusin'

Set Development

The Interpreter

Almost...

Almost...

That's it.

2011

2011

Early Frog

Introductions

 Since 2009, the characters and sets for my animation have been changing and developing into what they are today.  This is an early shot of the main characters and the first set.
The idea started out very simple but story lines develop and with that comes additional characters and sets. I have completed a few scenes and am working on new ones weekly. The process of stop motion animation is a long and tedious one but one i enjoy. I am determined to see it through to the end.  I am hoping that friends and followers of the blog will keep me motivated! Thanks for viewing.