Ezra Comes to Life

This year, we are going to be going through the books of Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther on Sunday mornings in our Student Bible classes. I came up with the idea to create some short videos to lead some, if not all, of the lessons. I thought I could use some small sets and do a little stop motion animation as well as live action with props and figures. Since the first lesson starts in a couple weeks (in fact I had to push it back), I am in full speed mode creating the props, sets and figures. I will be using a GoPro for most of the shooting. After I do the first two or three videos, I am going to be inviting the help of some students and adults to help complete the project.

A side goal of working on this for HP, will be that I will make the curriculum available for purchase for other churches. We are looking at about a 26 week curriculum package with lessons, resources and videos.

Here are some pictures of the process so far...

Concept sketches

 

 

Sculpting process...

I used aluminum foil balled up around the end of a nail. The nail will make it so I can turn the figure's head.

Ezra is beginning to take shape.

Esther will be used later on, but here head and figure are almost complete.

I use a heavy steel wire for the armature. The heads can be removed from the bodies so that I can use them for other characters.

 

Ezra's House:

 



Trip to the Doctor

This is a logo that I made for a Pediatrician's office.

October Monster Madness 2011 - Day 23 - Big Bad Wolf

Day 23 - Big Bad Wolf.

Off of the old song, "Lil' Red Riding Hood" by Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs comes the Big Bad Wolf. "I'm gonna keep my sheep suit on, til I'm sure that you've been shown, that I can be trusted, walking with you alone." That ol' wolf has been menacing Red and the Three Little Pigs for far too long!

Artist Notes - Done in Sketchbook Mobile Pro on my Motorola Xoom tablet.

Little Girl Outside sketch

Here's a tablet sketch I did over several days recently. Using Sketchbook Mobile Pro I made everything in layers. For this sketch I discovered that you could merge layers in this really cool app for the Xoom Android Tablet. So now, I can go in and export out just the wall for instance and use it somewhere else, since I made it a different layer. I am hoping to do more ministry projects with it as I learn more. I used it for several illustrations that I did for the Jump VBS curriculum I developed.



Girl Sock Monkey

So, here's another attempt at a sock monkey.  This time I went more modern with bright girly colors.  I made this one for my niece Taylor.