Second Home (Z printer notes)

Second Home Notes

Second Home: founded 2004, based in Digbeth Birmingham. Predominantly stop motion.

Ask about little girl on Balloon?

Z printer – They call it the "witch craft machine"

Z printer – youtube it for demonstration

Z printer – is a 3D printer, transforms CAD into fully realised colour models

Z printer – can make gears and mechanisms

Z printer – uses STL files from 3D programmes

Z printer – one of the down sides is that it can over interprets and trys to print clothes separately. The powder is very delicate. Very good for hand made look.

Michael Clifford – Bafta award winning director

Willard Wigan – micro sculpter, work in at hall in the mailbox. Bullied as a child and was made to small. “nothing doesn’t exist”

Ripomatic – “half animatic, half mood reel” using your work and existing work to help communicate ideas.

Home made super macro using a microscope, a super 8 lens video camera and radwelding used for test sequence.

Test sequence then became story board.

Final Shot Breakdown 008

Moving background plate – motion control

(Beauty pass) beauty state

Master animation pass

Master animation  pass breathe sequence

Checkerboarding in animation. Levels adjusted using photshop. Garbadge masked out and matted together. Rotoscpe rig removal. Additional elements.

All in all took 6 weeks. Take weekends off to allow for the benefit of reassessment and fresh perspective

Coraline 40,000 faces. All done in rapid prototyping, how they did shower.

Rapid techniques in Derby – Specialist 3D printers.

1 character takes 4 hours but you can print 4 at a time due to surface area of print.

Rough cost per model £1.50 - £3. per cubic inch

A crystal “tough stuff”

Expanding foam, sand paper.

Sculpture uses pulse as a jack hammer. Or model inbetween heartbeat – james petrie.