Now, after that depressing last post, on a brighter note, we have loads of plasticene (for claymation), not all the colors H.o.p. would like, but we’ve got gobs and he’s now finding it difficult to think of what to do for his fledgling attempt at a movie. I quickly realized, as he went through ideas, one after another, that though we also now have aluminum wire for armatures (expensive!!!) that doing armatures is something best reserved for the future and more dedicated projects. Like far in the future. What was I thinking when I started talking armatures to H.o.p. a couple weeks ago? Much over enthusiasm on my part. Lots of over enthusiasm on my part. I’ve now been having to talk him out of armatures, as I realized that he would, of course, want a new armature a day.
So the past few days have been me convincing him it’s just fine to make characters out of the plasticene with no armature, that these will do just fine for his first endeavors. Little squat figures. Having convinced him, he is now trying to figure out what his first figures should be. He keeps making and squishing and making and squishing. I asked him this morning if he’d come up with any firm ideas and he said no because his movie must have a villain too and he hadn’t decided on a villain. I remind him he should make this first one as simple as possible, maybe even just one character, but he says no, there must be a villain. In the meanwhile, he keeps making new storyboards, looking for the right story, the right characters.
He is now talking having a robot that first looks like a cup and then transforms into an evil robot that takes over the earth, but he’s not certain about any of this.
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