tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41413953127604702452024-03-13T08:24:55.069-07:00from Aspire to beyondA behind the scenes look at film and television Prop making peppered with everything else creative we do!jamie oxenhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15870590533278625435noreply@blogger.comBlogger445125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4141395312760470245.post-59096912003180419042016-05-30T21:28:00.000-07:002016-05-30T21:28:42.521-07:00It Aint the Size of Your Kitchen That Matters to the Ladies!Before I get to the next post, I thought I would post a small behind the scenes video of our last location shoot for my next short film! Woot! Woot!<br />
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Believe it or not, this shoot ran from 7:30pm to 2am, last Saturday night. It was soo much fun to do. It's kind of fun for me to watch, as I missed a lot of what was going down! But the pre-pro takes a lot of time and effort, and ate up most of my free time. Securing a location, doing the graphic design for the fake newspaper, getting it printed, breaking out the shot lists, and making sure the schedules work with everyone involved!<br />
All in all, I had such a great time! I have met a ton of new people, whom I hope to continue to have relationships with long after the shooting wraps. So here's to all of you guys, and all your hard work!<br />
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But while all this was goin' down, we were working at the shop on a kitchen set for a popular kids toy. I can't mention the toy, but I can document the build! The set was something that I designed, based off of a couple of artist concepts, and color designs. The set, and all it's pieces, are a fairly basic set, and all of it was drawn up in either Corel, or Aspire, depending on where I wanted to end up.<br />
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The first step, as always, was to nail out a floor plan, then I could base all the elevations off of this basic map. All of this will be 2-D profile cuts from both 1/4" and 1/8" styrene sheets. 1/4 and 1/8" styrene sheets you say?!? What?!? That's right, this is a miniature kitchen! At a total size of 3 feet X 3 feet!<br />
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First up was the fridge. Not for any other reason, except that those were the parts that our Techno CNC finished first! I actually split this job off onto both machine at the same time. The smaller pieces were all cut on the table top one, while our big machine cut the larger sections like the walls and floors.<br />
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The little counter stools were all cut on the small machine, from 1/4" styrene. I used 1/4" acrylic rod for the stool posts, set into the appropriate sized hole in the bases and stool tops.<br />
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With the fridge and stools done, I moved on to the kitchen sink. Again, all simple 2D stuff. The faucet spout was fashioned from 1/8" brass rod, with the oversized sprayer head made from half an acrylic sphere bead, that we somehow have a bazillion of. The little tap handle were ground down miniature wire marettes.<br />
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It wasn't long before these guys were ready for some paint! I really like to use ABS lacquer on anything styrene that we make. It eats right into the material, and can be sanded, if need be, in less than 10 minutes! This makes for some fast turn arounds!<br />
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The last and final set for the Fisher Price commercial was to be a snowy, arctic type environment. Kind of like April was in Canada this year! Pfff... There was no CNC work on this set, it was all hot-wire bow cut styrofoam. This set was also fairly big for a toy commercial. 24 feet at the back end, 16 feet deep, and 16 feet wide at the front end.<br />
<br />Most of it was straight forward, rocky out-croppings, sitting on 2" slabs of white styrofoam. All supported by some basic plywood whalers.<br />
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I hot wire cut most of the rock features, but Jody did the hard coating on the far back mountain range,<br />
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and all the painting! I find if I work slow, Jody gets all the painting done by herself.....Does that make me a...? Maybe. Probably......... But she's awesome at it, and likes it too, and I like to make her happy :) Cause that's how I roll.<br />
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We didn't do a full final paint on the mountains, as experience tells me, it'll change on set.<br />
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She got it as far along as it needed to be, and with us having one studio build day, and one prelight day before shooting, there will be plenty of time to change anything. Idle art directors make for more work :) That's right Mr. Art Director, I know you read this blog! ;)<br />
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EVERYTHING was wild on this set, so setting it up, and adjusting stuff went really quickly. Notice any mountain range paint changes? Oh ya you do! The fore ground rocks didn't actually get any hard coat. 2 coats of latex, and 3 multi colored coats of a fine speckle, made these jump to life as granite boulders.<br />
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We used 2 kinds of snow for the scenic of the base. The very fore ground, in your face snow, was 150 lbs of baking soda. This sculpts just like real snow, and gently blowing compressed air on it, gives it an un-matched, windswept look. The other snow we used is a fine ground styrofoam snow. It looks pretty real in your hands, as full size snow, but in the background, it gives a nice texture to things. If we used backing soda in the back, we might as well of used a white bedsheet. NO life to it at all. So the texture is what sells it!<br />
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The trees are something we have, and rent out. They take a long time to make, and are kind of expensive, so we just rent them out most of the time. :) The smaller pines are trees the we have, but bought and modified slightly a while ago.<br />
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The last step was to clamp on a miniature, remote smoker for the volcano type mountain. I don't think they actually even fired it up in the end But at least it was on standby!<br />
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And here's our student helper, Polina, Godzilla-ing her way through the set. Good times that Polina, good times!<br />
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Oh, and as usual, 13 days left in the My Rode Reel contest, so PUH-LEASE throw a vote to Endlewood, our short, 3-minute film we entered!!<br />
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<br />jamie oxenhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15870590533278625435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4141395312760470245.post-67170080205919874212016-05-09T20:00:00.000-07:002016-05-09T20:00:37.554-07:002nd of Three!I have been spending most of my free time gearing up for filming this summer. This means that the blog is kind of a close second at the moment. We're spreading filming out across most of the summer, with the first scenes already shot last fall. This means shotlisting and blocking the remaining 30 scenes! Lots of work and thought goes into it all, and adding locations and schedules from everyone involved, also adds its set of lengthy problem solving skills. I may regret this at some point........but probably no way!!<br />
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The second of three sets we built for this commercial was a tropical islandy set. This got the least documentation, because the deadline was creeping up fast, and we were soon to be without the Jody, due to her Boston Marathon race!<br />
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The main piece, where all the miniature action was going to take place, was a small island. This needed a smooth skin "beach", and rocky pieces. This was all made from hand carved styrofoam. We went with 2" foam, with the rock chunks added on top. Once carved, we coated it with a Durobond mixture, and added texture with crumpled tin foil. This resembled a kind of lava rock look.<br />
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With me working the island portion, Jody, and our student helper Polina, worked on cutting all the palm leaves, and painting them up. After they were base coated, Jody airbrushed some more coloring onto them. We had to go quite a bit darker than real palm trees, as these are all being shot against green screen. And we don't want the leaves to get keyed out by mistake, making a monstrous amount of work at the post production end! The final step was to slice them up with scissors, to get the individual fronds.<br />
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The trees came out great! Running down the center of the leaves was a piece of wire. This allowed us to be able to 'pose' the leaves as we needed, and give us something to attach to the trunk!<br />
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This was the only image I was able to grab of the set :( Just too many people and gear in the way!<br />
I wish I had a picture of the 8'X8' water portion. It was really cool! We used a textured acrylic, similar to a ripply patio table glass. This was suspended above a really weird looking metallic blue sheeting. It looked like something Elton John would wear. But under the acrylic, it gave the water tremendous depth. When we shot it, we drifted dry ice over the surface, and the whole thing became VERY pirate-y!<br />
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Next up was the bridge that spans the opening where the kid actors stand. This was from 1/2" pvc. I used a 1/4" Ballnose cutter to cut the slots for the 1/4" acrylic rod, that will become the multiple upright supports. I went with the ballnose cutter, so the rods would fit tight and clean, as opposed to a square bottom slot from an endmill.<br />
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They fit super duper! Because this is a set, anything that doesn't face the camera, doesn't get any attention. So as this is the back side of the bridge, it will just get painted like this.<br />
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The final bits were some fencing along the "Wharf", and some ladders down to the "water"<br />
We even made little bollard cleats for boats, but I didn't get any pictures :(<br />
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These were the only pictures on set I could get of it. Cause the second the crew arrived, the toys were placed on it, then no pictures allowed!<br />
This was fairly big. At a total of 16 feet wide, by 9 feet deep. Just the way I like it :)<br />
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This build has us working on 3 separate environments. Some of the build portions in the shop, might not get covered very well, but I will show the finals in the studio.<br />
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The first build is a city landscape for the commercial. That means buildings, and a few at that.<br />
4.5, 4x8 sheets of 1/4" styrene to be exact! These building are relatively low detail, as they can't overshadow the kids toy that their filming. They range in height from 8" to 48" tall. Our Techno cnc made short work of all the pieces. I cut all the 1/4" styrene with the single flute Amana cutter from Tools Today. I have been using this cutter for everything plastic, over the last year, and it's still kick n' ass!<br />
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This is about as complicated as the buildings get! They're only 3 sided though. Largely for budget reasons, but mostly cause they gotta stick a bunch of lights in them all.<br />
I had the cnc cut the panels to size, then used our angle jig to router the mitre corners. Some tape as a mitre fold, flooded with methelyne, and BAM, a new building!<br />
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The windows were all numbered, so it would make sense after painting, as a lot of them were individuals. For the most part, I used .030" PETG sheets, with the standard peel and stick window frosting. After that, we used clear shipping tape to fasten them to the inside.<br />
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On the larger buildings, I used translucent coroplast. I really liked the corrugated lines from it!<br />
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<br />jamie oxenhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15870590533278625435noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4141395312760470245.post-5697900112109196002016-04-12T19:28:00.000-07:002016-04-12T19:28:03.744-07:00LG G5!Well, well, well..............Look who showed up! HA HA HA!<br />
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The start of the New Year was kind of a weird one at our shop. We had a few builds, but they ALL had NDA's. This obviously sucks for someone who wants to share the work they do! In fact, I still have an NDA on a Canadian series for 2 more years, even though the show no longer runs. Crazy!<br />
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The other stuff that kept me busy, work wise, was some prototype development, which of course, I am unable to share with you guys either. <br />
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However, we can now start to post about some things that we ARE able to show! WOO- HOO!<br />
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One such job was for some online media for the LG G5 phone.<br />
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This was the basic setup....<br />
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(photo ripped from the web from <a href="http://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/lg-introduces-canadian-pro-basketball-star-cory-joseph-as-official-ambassador-of-lg-g5-smartphone-574459661.html">http://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/lg-introduces-canadian-pro-basketball-star-cory-joseph-as-official-ambassador-of-lg-g5-smartphone-574459661.html </a><br />
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We basically needed to build a rig to spin 2 basketballs, and time was pretty tight! Like 2 days tight!<br />
<br />I didn't even really have time to draw up the plans, I just kinda dove into it, developing as I went!<br />
The rig needed to be basic to operate, as I wasn't going to be running it, and it sort of had to look good, because the joke was that the rig would be visible in the shot.<br />
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First up, I decided that the motors would be 2 corded power drills. The hopes was that the variable speed trigger could be used to vary the speed of the balls spinning.<br />
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I welded up a simple structure to hold the whole thing together. This was a piece of 2" steel tube. I went with 2" because the main cross bar that supports the whole thing is 2" tubing as well. This would become the horizontal mount that would get clamped to the the main crossbar. I then welded a vertical length of 1" tubing that will house the shaft that spins the ball. As a final step, I welded two 1/4" steel rods to be able to zip tie the power drills to.<br />
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Once the assembly was finished, I drew up a bunch of bearing blocks in Aspire, then cut them on the CNC. I cut them from rigid PVC, and made the opening tight enough that I had to hammer in the bearings.<br />
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The shaft that is going to eventually spin the balls was a length of 1/4-20 threaded rod. Something that is very plentiful at the shop!<br />
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I then machined up a concave plate that fit the basketball perfectly! This was done from 3/4" pvc foam. Strong and light enough for the job.<br />
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I punched a hole into the center of the basketball, and used a big fender washer, slipped through an additional slit in the ball.<br />
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I then assembled the craziness, with a crap-ton of silicone! In hopes to combat any air leakage, as we might need to add air to the ball to retain it's shape. After the glue dried, one ball leaked, but held it's shape OK, so I'm good with it :)<br />
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I assembled the final assemblies, and mounted the drills to the top. This however is PRETTY not hot looking.......................<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So I drew up a motor cover, and cut it from 1/4" black PVC Sintra. This solved the obvious problem of the drills being visible. Once that was done, I wrapped some brushed aluminum vinyl around the shaft tube, and the whole thing looked great!<br />
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At the shop, the rig worked great! I let it run for over an hour, and everything was golden.<br />
I delivered it off, and everyone loved it! <br />
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However, I got a call a while later that the studio tests were proving not as awesome as the shop.<br />
Controlling the speed from the drill trigger, at over 8 feet high, was not going to work, and one of the rigs started to develop a nasty ball wobble. This intern started the stands vibrating, thus creating more wobble in both balls now........................Doh.<br />
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So before heading back to the studio, I had to come up with a plan. But now the rig was gone, and I was all alone, scared and cold. HMMMMMM.........<br />
The bright side was that our client Tom, is noooo dummy by any stretch, and he diagnosed the wobble as coming from between the ball mounting plate, and the bearing. The 1/4-20" rod was starting to bend at that point. <br />
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I decided to machine an additional bearing plate that would clamp to the 1" tubing, and support 3 bearings, that would push down on the plate at the top of the ball.<br />
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I cut the plate from 2 pieces of 3/4" Lexan, so it would sit as square on the shaft as possible. This solved the wobble problem VERY effectively!<br />
To solve the variable speed issue, I wired up a couple of 600W dimmers to outlets, and put them into separate junction boxes with 25 foot cords. This means the drills could be locked wide open, and the dimmers could vary the voltage running to them.<br />
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They loved it, and I no longer had wobbly balls.....................................<br />
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In fact The end clients liked it so much, they asked if we could run it at the LG G5 launch party in Toronto! Who cold say no to a launch party! It was going to get used as a photo op.<br />
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The party was great! It was held in the Old Fermenting Cellar in the Old Distillery District, a pretty happening district for sure! Jody and I both attended, cause me by myself spells social embarrassment! HA HA!<br />
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The rig ran great! The first 1.5 hours was a bit fidgety with the speeds, as they seemed to slowly creep up faster and faster. But, after the drills became SUPER warm, they seemed to level out, and didn't really need any tweaking for the rest of the night!<br />
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Canadian actor <span class="st"><em>Michael Seater </em>was there, that was pretty cool. Our daughter used to watch his show Life With Derek religiously when she was younger, so Jody spotted him right away! </span><br />
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<span class="st">It was a great build, even with the new, last minute bearing plate we had to add!</span><br />
<span class="st">And I don't often get to enjoy a pretty happening party after a build, so I loved it!</span><br />
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<span class="st">And as a side note, I have discussed before that I'm moving into shooting films, and writing scripts as a side passion for me.</span><br />
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<span class="st">So with that being said, I would love for you guys to head over to the My Rode Reel film contest I entered. </span><br /><span class="st"> I submitted our 3 minute short film Endlewood, and would REALLY be grateful if you could vote for it on their site!! </span><br />
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<span class="st">Please, please................ </span><br />
<span class="st">I'm going to hound you all until the deadline..........................</span><br />
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<span class="st">Thanks for coming back, and thanks for voting!!</span><br />
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jamie oxenhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15870590533278625435noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4141395312760470245.post-50861965608506592962016-03-25T22:01:00.000-07:002016-04-07T13:14:53.171-07:00Filming! I think I loooove it!Well, it's no secret I haven't posted anything in awhile! I sort of took a leave of absence. Probably not the best thing to do on a blog, but I decided to try some new things. Still related to my work, but just sort of a new direction! Most of the jobs we have done, have had NDA's, so that kind of made any posting difficult, and I got side tracked by my other ventures! Jody and I also did some traveling in the States, and she ran the Erie marathon, qualifying her to run the Boston Marathon next year! We also got to re-connect with our friends from Germany, who we have had the misfortune of losing touch with over the many years that have passed!<br />
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If you don't follow me on Facebook, I will update you here on the project that has occupied most of my existence outside of work. I have been pouring myself into the film-making world. Not the prop end of things, we do that already, but shooting and directing. Nothing glamorous like being hired by a top notch production company, but just a few of my own personal endeavors. The first attempt was a complete disaster, sort of. It was to be a short film about quad-copter drones, but shot like a documentary, as if they were alive, and thriving in the world. But it quickly became impossible to film. They're far too small to shoot, and when you are close enough to them to recognize any of the characters, you can't keep them in frame. Add wind, location issues, and all the other headaches........well, it was time to move on.<br />
So I wrote a short movie trailer, for a film that doesn't exist. This way, I get all the fun of shooting, without having to deal with script continuity, as well as wrapping everything up at the end!<br />
I really am happy with the final outcome. It involved learning software, how to edit footage properly, syncing audio, compositing effects (largely to key out a few things that no-one noticed were in the shot at the time :/ ) The list goes on, but wow, what an experience, especially when I get to decide on everything. Which isn't always as awesome as one would think!<br />
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We made most of the 'specialty' props, and a big shout out to my buddy Joe, who also had a huge hand in the making of this little film trailer. Both on props, and planning and acting, so thanks again Dude!<br />
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For a short little video, it took a ton of work! From writing, production design, lighting, blah, blah, blah. We shot the bulk of it in one night, from sunset to sunrise, and had a small crew of about 8. There were some pick-up shots after the initial filming, which also added more time to the project as well.<br />
So I think for the rest of this post, I will attach some images of the whole process, in no particular order!<br />
Thanks for comin' back again!<br />
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JWO<br />
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<br />jamie oxenhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15870590533278625435noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4141395312760470245.post-33137374295615318522015-12-23T19:12:00.002-08:002015-12-23T19:12:31.250-08:00Painting all the way..............<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The painting took a long time on this build. Almost everything was hand painted, as masking for different colors would have been a nightmare!<br />
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I added a small OPEN sign that we mounted to the ice-cream sculpture out front of the store. This way, ice cream will be available 24 hours a day, forever! Muhahaha!<br />
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The roadway pattern we had printed, and the sidewalks were 1/4" MDF painted. The buildings were the worst thing ever to paint. The light acrylic colors have no opacity at all. This meant a minimum of 3 coats on all the trim. This was Jody's cross to bear for a couple of days! If I ever do anything similar to this, I would laser cut craft foam for the trim, and glue it on. Painting the trim was a colossal waste of time. The other thing that we ended up doing differently, was the awnings. And every building had them. Because I squashed the buildings on the z axis, this left very little separation between the awning stripes. This meant that painting 3 coats on every other stripe was quickly turning into a very amateurish looking building.<br />
I decided to cut vinyl for the stripes instead. But this meant figuring out HOW to draw something to cut. After pondering my dilemma at 2 am, I had an idea!<br />
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I was able to select the polygon edgeloop of every other awning stripe, extract it, and export it out actual size for vinyl cutting.<br />
This worked almost flawlessly! Just some very minor tweaking of the cut graphic, on one of the buildings! It's amazing what a clean, crisp, opaque stripe can do for the overall look of the whole project!<br />
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All in all, this was a great build! The time allotted was about 1 day less than I would have liked, but we got it done! Everyone loved the build, and it was an overall size of 7 feet by 5 feet. Big enough that they won't have to worry about shooting off the base at the edge of frame!<br />
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Jody and I wish all of you a VERY happy Holiday Season, and we wish that the New Year brings every one of you happiness, health and wealth!<br />
Until 2016 my friends!<br />
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But, back to the interrupted miniatures build we were working on!<br />
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The next little asset I had to make was the picnic table that will sit outside the ice cream store.<br />
I re-modeled the original umbrella model they supplied, just to make the machining a little cleaner.<br />
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I brought my model into Aspire, and found a good height for the split. It was a little too thick to double side machine from 2" material, so I cut it in 2 halves.<br />
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We also got a request for 4 more additional buildings to populate around the set. They didn't need to be as complicated as the ice cream store, but they needed to still look good. And with the deadline quickly approaching, I decided to try a different approach to them.<br />
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I brought the buildings into Hexagon, rotated them to camera a little bit, then squashed them on the z axis. I did have to elongate the depth on all the details, so when I squished it down, there would still be some detail to be able to paint.<br />
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Once into Aspire, I set the z height to exactly 2 inches, so as to fit into the material we're working with.<br />
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The end result looks really good with some side lighting to make the details really pop.<br />
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Meanwhile, Jody was making some pretty decent headway on the painting portion of things!<br />
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I finished up on the interior components, and Jody had finished working the little ice cream chairs.<br />
We went with laminated prints for the walls and menu sign. The case-goods were built from .060" styrene, and put together much the same way you would a real cabinet. There was nothing from the cg company for the interior, so we designed it on the fly. This is a 3 walled set, with no ceiling. We just extended the walls up high enough, that no ceiling wouldn't be an issue at all.<br />
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Inside our miniature ice-cream store will be some chairs and tables, a counter, and a wall shelving. Very store like! They sent me the 3d model for the chairs they want, and I brought it into Hexagon for layout and scaling. The final size worked out to be just over 2.25" in height.<br />
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Because these will get double side machined, it was easiest to nest them, with sprues, in Hexagon. The sprues are there just to make sure they don't all fall apart once the cutter starts attacking them!<br />
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The imported nesting was 1.673" thick, so I'll be cutting these from 2" HDU. I brought the model into Aspire, did some quick math to center them in the material thickness, then added a base component, so the cutter wouldn't have to travel all the way down to the machine bed. I kept the base component shy of the middle of the block by about 1/4". This way the cutter would at least travel past the center block seam on each side, eliminating any onion skin that would be left attached to the model, if I had the component set at the halfway, or 1" height.<br />
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42 minutes total, including flipping the material! Pretty fast turnaround for 6 chairs, and 2 table bases!<br />
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I did have to clean of the sprues, and some machine marks, but HDU is pretty quick to deal with that sort of thing. The table tops were cut from 1/8" styrene plastic.<br />
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The next asset to deal with was the large ice-cream cone that will sit out front of the miniature store.<br />
This scaled out at about 8" tall, and 3.625" deep. This I will cut in two halves, from 2" HDU, and glue up.<br />
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Here the cone has been cut, cleaned and primed. It's sitting next to our super-cool cartoon trees that will also populate the model base. The tree's I designed in Hexagon, machined from 40lb urethane. The sphere's are just craft foam balls from the craft store, with painted corsage pins stuck in for some color!<br />
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And that's the current build!<br />
We have to build a small toon-ish village for a tv spot. This makes me VERY happy indeed!!!<br />
We were supplied a lot of 3d assets, which I will be pulling from heavily. Non of this will be 3d printed. the scale makes this a bit to big for printing, and I can machine almost any of this 100 times faster than 3d printing. I still think that 3d printing is a little over rated for a lot of what we do. It certainly has its place, but not for this gig!<br />
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This is the main building. This will scale out at approximately 13 inches wide. I decided the best way to tackle this for 3d machining is to split it out, both in Aspire, and Hexagon. I hid the text portion of the sign, as I will laser cut that from craft foam.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I know that the wall panels will be machined from 3/4" pvc, so I blocked out a cube, set back from the farthest point on the wall by 3/4". I don't care about the large sign depth at this point, because I'll just cut it off in Aspire. This method seems to be the fastest way from A to B.<br />
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The reason for the cube, is really just to give me a surface plane when I import the model into Aspire. The model will get sunk into the zero plane, right up to the pink face, then I'll discard everything below the zero plane, effectively just giving me what I need to machine. I will also be cutting the window trim, and bricks as separate pieces. Which is why I have hidden them, so they don't get exported with the building. This will make for a really clean model. And at 4k, that's what I want to deliver!<br />
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With the file brought into Aspire, and sunken to the correct depth, I sliced off the top molding, and hid it for use later.<br />
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At this point, I brought in the door and window trim, so I could vectorize them for both cutting them out, and laser cutting the trim later.<br />
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Cutting the raw wall panels was really quick. 40 minutes for all 3. I'm not mitering the corners, they'll be butt joints. But with some primer and sanding, they'll be golden.<br />
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The assembled walls came together perfectly.<br />
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A couple coats of filler primer, some sanding, and they looked great. I did use a spray texture on them in the end. This was done to match the other things we'll be fabricating, which will be stipple painted with a brush. This way they all look like they belong in the same environment.<br />
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Once the upper trim was machined, Jody set to work on the painting.<br />
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This is pretty much the final building structure. The upper molding will get attached to the base with a strip of aluminum tape. The tape is just to eliminate any light leaks when they eventually light the interior on set. We're doing frosted windows for this this from clear PETG, with a frosted vinyl decal.<br />
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<br />jamie oxenhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15870590533278625435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4141395312760470245.post-83094761328074273842015-12-04T18:06:00.000-08:002015-12-04T18:06:37.554-08:00Filming! Aaaahhhhhh!Well, the start of my short film was awesome on the weekend! The Kawartha Settlers Village was kind enough to let us use their location, and we took advantage of both the inside, as well as the outside! We started at noon on Saturday, and finished up about 2am! By that time, everything that we had left outside had an amazing coating of frost, stupid Jamie.<br />
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I also got to try out my 3-axis camera stabilizer, which I was pretty pumped about! On Saturday, I ended up attaching it to the end of my 8 foot jib crane, and was able to use an RC transmitter. This allowed me to be able to remotely pan and tilt the camera for our first shot. I had Joe working the jib, while I controlled the camera. It was a little bit like releasing drunk camera monkeys loose, but we eventually got synced up together!<br />
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We had 2 extra's that were to look like they were out for a stroll, while our cowboy rolled into town!<br />
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Jody moved frequently between producer and director. Which was good, because I was so focused on tracking the horse with the camera, I had no idea what the hell else was going on! There could have been a flaming gorilla with a sombrero, and I don't thing I would have noticed it. Sooooooo sad! Thank goodness for awesome sauce Jody!<br />
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Here our cowboy is pushing his way into the cabin, all tough like!<br />
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We were very grateful to Leahann and Andrea, who not only supplied the horse "Sasha" for the shoot, but took the time to trailer her an hour to the location! They were awesome! Jody also got to ride her after we were done. She was pretty stoked, as she's never been on a horse before!<br />
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Once it got dark, we moved on to the inside of the cabin!<br />
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Oh yeah............That is a hand in a box your lookin' at! A little weird right? The hand was the bane of my existence all night! It was never where it needed to be! HA HA. It was in the box when it should've been out. Out of the box when it was supposed to be in. Missing from the shot, left in the satchel bag...........................It became a running joke almost.<br />
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Sunday's shoot day was almost as fun as Saturday's. Less people to have fun with, but still pretty fun!<br />
Maybe not for Joe, who spent most of Sunday doing this!<br />
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Hopefully I get to finish the script this winter, and start casting for the other rolls in the late winter, then spend all summer doing this cool gig!<br />
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With the high-build primer sanded, it was time to cut the barrel for the rifle. I lucked out years ago, and had a ton of plastic rod and tube given to me! And I do mean a ton. The barrel worked out to be really close to 5/8" diameter, so I found some blue acrylic rod that was sooo close to the same diameter, it would've been crazy to use anything else. Plus it was even lighter than aluminum rod, and I already own it :)<br />
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I sprayed them up black, and wiped on the Rustoleum metallic accents blue-ish pewter color, then added some nicks and dings with the silver version of their paint.<br />
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The central chamber portion of the gun got real slotted brass screws, a silver spray coat, then I messily added some golden oak gel stain, wiping it off, but leaving it around all the details. The plate cover was cut from .060" styrene,<br />
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With some stain on the wood, I buffed a paste wax onto it to give it a nice satin sheen!<br />
<br />I think it looks like the real deal, even though it won't be seen very much.<br />
Tomorrow, I have to break out my shot lists, and make some barn doors for some LED light fixtures I picked up. Man hobbies can keep you swamped!<br />
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<br />jamie oxenhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15870590533278625435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4141395312760470245.post-14880650296310011472015-11-24T18:49:00.000-08:002015-11-24T18:49:01.983-08:00Building a rifle!Our work has all been computer files lately, so that means the cnc's aren't cutting any work files.<br />
That also means I get to run MY files all day, Muu Haa-haa!<br />
It's nice to cut my own crap, without having to "squeeze" it in around other router work!<br />
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So I have put them to use cutting stuff I need for filming my short film this weekend. This weekend will be just the intro to the film, the rest will be shot over the whole of next summer.<br />
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I decided I wanted our cowboy hitman to have a rifle on his back. He won't actually use it, it's just for show. My awesome wardrobe friends, Denise and Joe, will be building the rifle belt, and holster for it.<br />
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First up, I scoured the internet for a cool rifle, and settled on this one. Plus, our local gun store had a remake of this one, so I was able to measure it up quickly!<br />
The nice thing about this image, is I can follow the light reflection to find the center bulge point all the way down the rifle side.<br />
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Then I brought the image, scaled to size, into my 3d modeller, and built the rough form. The flat area around the chamber, I'll deal with in Aspire, as well as a few other things that are easier to do in that software.<br />
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With the small tweaks made, and the vectors all created, I mirrored the other side for machining.<br />
I decided to double-side machine this from cedar. Not a traditional gun making material, but a VERY lightweight alternative. I don't want to weigh our cowboy down with a heavy one. That's the sole reason I'm actually making this gun, for weight reasons. The reason for double side machining both halves is so I could have the cnc hog out all the openings for the trigger, hammer, etc.<br />
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I also had our small Techno cut all the little bits and pieces for the rest of the gun. These were a combination of PVC and styrene.<br />
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For the center section, instead of doing it from a separate piece, I just masked it off, and brushed on several coats of the high build primer, and I'll sand it in the morning.<br />
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So this will be the first post in my newest film production!<br />
I can't tell the whole script, for obvious reasons, but I will share whats pertinent as we go along.<br />
One of my main characters in the film will span 2 time periods. The first time period is back in the 1870's -ish. He's basically a cowboy, with a twist.<br />
This means a few things for me, one is getting a horse, which I'm pretty sure we have nailed down, and the other is wardrobe for our character. I have tasked a large portion of the wardrobe to my very good friends, Joe Christoff, who was involved in our last project, and Denise Robertson, who is a wiz at sewng the crazy stuff I come up with. She did all the wardrobe for my Endlewood project. That's on Youtube if you haven't watched it yet!<br />
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I will be doing bits and pieces of the wardrobe as well.<br />
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First things first, a cowboy needs a gun! This is a very good Denix replica I got online. It weighs a ton! I assume it's weight is pretty close to the real one! This one is going to be ported to blow compressed air and powder, to simulate a gunshot. I could certainly add smoke in post-production, but I would WAY rather get it in camera while we're filming.<br />
Now a gun needs bullets as well! To avoid all kinds of grief, everything will be VERY fake indeed!<br />
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We need about 50 rounds for what we're doing. I decided to lathe all the bullets from acrylic rod. I stuck a radius cutter in the lathe, and spun the tips that way. It only took about 35 minutes to lathe all 50 pieces.<br />
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For the rim of the bullets, I laser engraved, then cut them all from .060 acrylic.<br />
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Then I just visually aligned the rims to the casing, and glued them up!<br />
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With a quick coat of brass paint, and the tips dipped in Rustoleum's Metallic Accent pewter color, they're lookin sweet!................49 more to go!<br />
The other wardrobe pieces on the workbench were the spurs for our cowboy!<br />
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Using the boots as a measurement, I drew them up in corel, and sent them to Joe. He has access to a plasma cutter, and I want these to be durable. So he cut them from steel.<br />
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We welded them up, and added 2) 1/4-20 stove bolts for the studs. They got bent to the correct shape, then I treated them with the rust solution, to give them a patina. The far spur has the treatment, and the close one hasn't been done yet!<br />
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The next big task for filming is the period room the cowboy goes into.<br />
I totally lucked out, and our friends who let us use their farm for Endlewood, have agreed to let us set up shop in a corner of their barn!<br />
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This does mean that we have to build some set walls. We'll be using the door, and the 2 real walls. I'll build two fake walls to make it a room. The nice thing about this, is that the walls can move in and out as we need them to. This will allow us to get the camera gear anywhere we need, without to much restriction in the space!<br />
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<br />jamie oxenhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15870590533278625435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4141395312760470245.post-43489831346484696272015-11-02T17:27:00.000-08:002015-11-02T17:27:53.158-08:00Picking back up!I'm gonna try and pick this up from where I last left off on the miniatures build!<br />
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I have found over the years, that printing as much as we can, versus painting and masking, can shave measurable amounts of time off of a short deadline! These miniature sets are a prime example! The walls and floors are all printed vinyl. I can spend the time in the evenings drawing up the files, instead of wasting valuable build time at the shop. We did edge-paint all the MDF floor slabs though.<br />
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You can see by the X-acto knife the overall size of the room. The gumball machine was finished, and filled with plastic "gumball" beads. I made the turn dial from PVC and styrene plastic, with a silver lacquer paint finish.<br />
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And in the background, the multi-candy dispenser was finished, and filled with actual dessert sprinkles! Although the store looks REALLY bare, once they jam it full of the little toys for the commercial, it'll be busting with excitement!<br />
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The movie theater lobby set was the biggest of them all. Again the floor and walls were graphic prints I drew up. The exception was the red carpet. I cut a .060" styrene template on our Techno, then once the fit was established, I used it as a knife guide, and cut the carpet from red craft foam. I wanted a thickness to it, and the ultra-matt finish contrasted nicely against the satin finish print of the rest of the flooring.<br />
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We also made a scale popcorn-dispenser for the back wall. Miniature popcorn had me scratching my head a bit! In the end, I bought a yellow kitchen sponge, and picked it apart, to make the top all rough, and I think it worked awesome for a background element. Then we matched the counter-top color to the popcorn color, so it would be a smooth flow along the back wall.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The final touches were adding the real popcorn to the "oversized" element popcorn box, and the brass poles with red rope. The red rope we used was a piece of red pipe cleaner. It held it's shape great, and didn't place any tipping stress on the poles. The poles all had to be wild, so they could place them where ever they may need!<br />
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Each of these miniature stores had to have 1 oversize element! Oversize to the scale of the store that is!<br />
The cinema was to have an oversized popcorn container, the bakery a cupcake, and the candystore a gumball machine. Non of this is an off the shelf purchase, with the exception of the popcorn container!<br />
The Dollar Store can be a treasure trove of parts for this kind of thing! I did find some plastic ice cream bowls, and a kids ladybug lantern!<br />
At first you may say "Whaaaaat?"<br />
The lantern I hacked strictly for the globe around the LED light. This will become the glass for the gumball machine.<br />
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I measured up the globe, and drew the vector outline in Corel, then imported those vectors into Hexagon. Using the vectors, I massed up the base of the gumball machine, to the size I needed it.<br />
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The base was cut in 2 halves, out of HDU.<br />
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A few coats of primer to seal up the HDU, and this is pretty much ready for paint!<br />
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The cupcake was the next animal! I quickly drew up the cupcake top in Hexagon, working from the inside diameter of the small ice cream bowl. This was also cut from HDU, and painted with acrylics. The cherry stem was a section of coat hanger wire, drilled into the top, and bent slightly.<br />
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While this was all goin' down, Jody was working on the final set piece, which was a section of curved roadway, with "grass" on each side, and matching sidewalk pads. This the outdoor scene for the toys.<br />
The grass berms were hot-wire cut foam, then sanded smoothly into an undulating surface, ready to be flocked for grass.<br />
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During the Emily Trudeau sign build, we got in a tv commercial build, and paused work on the sign.<br />
One fun job, right into another is OK by me!<br />
This job was to create 4 small environments for a toy product.<br />
These were a bakery interior, a candy store interior, a theatre, and an outdoor space!<br />
As with most tv builds.............4 days.<br />
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As with all 2d stuff, I drew up all the pieces for each mini set in Corel, including the prints for the wall panels and flooring. The candy store was the first one to get drawn!<br />
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Everything for all 3 stores was cut from .060 and .125" sheet styrene. There was only 2 items that actually got 3d machined for this. The rest was all 2d, assembled into 3d shapes. We didn't 3d print anything either.<br />
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All of the counters, for the 3 stores were cut from 2" HDU. Super fast way to mass a curvy shapes!<br />
Once the shapes were cut, I wrapped them all in .020 styrene, leaving them short at the bottom, to resemble some sort of toe kick that a real cabinet would have. Wrapping these in styrene gave me a super smooth surface for painting, with zero sanding, except for the corner joints! My kinda cabinet building!<br />
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Once the counters were all cut and assembled, I moved on to the cabinet type structures. Above is the ticket kiosk for the little movie theater.<br />
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The rest of the cabinets and shelving were quickly assembled from the parts off the Techno.<br />
This is another one of those times that a little extra work in the computer, makes for a super fast assembly in the real world!<br />
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<br />jamie oxenhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15870590533278625435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4141395312760470245.post-67075601107292726752015-08-19T19:13:00.000-07:002015-08-19T19:13:38.395-07:00Sometimes It can Be Sad When A Job Gets Finished!The very last things to do on the sign was to drill the holes for the
butterfly, and flowers. These will go on the sign just before it gets
mounted on location. Due to the freshness of the paint from the night
before, we decided NOT to wrap the sign for it's 2 hour trailer ride to
Tweed. Even though it was riding in an open trailer, and it was raining,
I really believed it would be safer without any wrap sticking to the 12
hour old paint.<br />
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The
final pieces to our puzzle were the sign posts themselves. These were
fabricated by our great friend Reg, at Brewster's Welding. He did such a
fantastic job structurally welding the 4 polished stainless steel poles
to their mounting plates. And as per the customer request, we had 2
cowboy boots, with hats, laser cut from .060 stainless steel sheet. Reg
also welded these on for us!<br />
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The
sign arrived without a single mark, although pretty wet from the rain!
However, as some things go, there was a miscommunication with the base
plates that had already been set in the ground, in 5 feet of sono tube
and concrete!<br />
But in the spirit of the entire Splash Pad build, EVERYONE lent a hand to solving the problem.<br />
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This
included an amazing fellow by the name of Troy. Troy owns Dirty Crack
Welding, and arrived at 7 pm from his other 2 jobs, and set to work
immediately to rectify the issue. A true professional, dedicated to
doing whatever it took!<br />
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The
picture is proof of how many people worked tirelessly to make sure this
sign got installed for the 11 am grand opening. By the time we left, it
was past midnight, and I do believe a few stayed until 3am to take care
of the rest of the things that needed wrapping up.<br />
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<u>GRAND OPENING DAY</u></h2>
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The
grand opening was packed! Jody and I were amazed by the outpouring of
support, from not only the Town of Tweed, but the surrounding
communities as well. A remarkable turnout to say the least!<br />
The
event started with heartfelt speeches from the family and friends of the
Trudeau family, while the smells of french fries and hamburgers filled
the air!<br />
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This was followed immediately by a ribbon cutting ceremony,<br />
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and a release of butterflies...............<br />
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Which the entire splash pad is themed around!<br />
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Jody
and I couldn't be happier with the outcome of the sign! I love the
colors and all the elements involved. I wanted more than anything for
the sign to look like it was pulled from a theme park, and delivered
right here!<br />
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We also have to thank Justin Monk, and Engine Communications, for reaching out to us to design and build this great piece!<br />
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Justin
had contacted me awhile ago, and sent me a quick sketch of what he was
thinking. After discussing various ideas, we both liked the fonts, so I
ran with that! He sent me off the text vectors, and we set to work!<br />
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Justin
and Engine Communications were great to work with, as they gave us
complete control on designing something that would have a great wow
factor. Answering as many questions as I could possibly ask! And being a
quick phone call away!<br />
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This was a truly great build! I
wish I could mention everyone we met and worked with, but I would be
afraid to leave anyone out, so here's to all of you! We are so grateful
to get to work with amazing people on every one of our builds.<br />
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<u>Thanks Again</u>,<br />
Jamie and Jody<br />
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But before we tackled the miniatures build, we wanted to be at the primer stage on the sign, at the very least! Once all the glue had hardened, we set about to tackle any seams that need some extra love, then we spent about 30 minutes hosing the sign down to remove the stubborn HDU grit from sanding. No paint failure for us! . This is a great opportunity to kind of see if, and where any water might collect and pool in the real world. It passed my water retention test!<br />
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With the primer well dried by the commercial shoot delivery, Jody got to work right away on the painting! I did very little painting on this, Jody was like a paint brush animal! I did help with some of it, but not a lot of the cool stuff. I was just the basecoat guy! The leaves got 2 coats of base green, and 2 coats of glaze, each one darker than the last.</div>
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However, I do remember painting pink, alot of coats of pink though.<br />
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With the 2 color pink finally done, she moved onto the log.<br />
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Usually on every job, there's a part that I really can't wait to work on, and a part she can't wait to work on. The log was it for her. She was so smiley the entire time!<br />
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See what I'm talkin' bout! So happy that little lady! She did 2 coats of glaze on the log as well<br />
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We didn't forget the back either! However, Jody's smile wasn't quite as large as the log part :)<br />
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The words splash pad also got their paint job, as well as the 2 flowers. We didn't actually have time to sculpt the flowers, so we cheated a lot-tle. We actually purchased 2, over-sized silk flowers, and hosed them down with the polyester hard-coat. This bonded really well to the fabric petals, essentially becoming a fiberglass sculpture all on it's own. Then a quick paint job, and BAM, they were ready for mounting!<br />
I didn't actually get any final pictures of the butterfly though. We were a little crunched on the time, and some things slip through the cracks a little!<br />
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The final parts to get painted were the soccerball, and the water portion. This sign will head out first thing in the AM, ready for it's road trip out to Tweed!<br />
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The soccer ball and water splash came together pretty easily. I did have to scab on a couple of pieces to the large water splash. It wasn't worth 3d machining the little slivers that formed the last portion of the curve, as it was way faster just to shape them with a file!<br />
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Every glued section of HDU got either a welded steel tube frame glued in, or a long straight piece for durability. I didn't have our Techno cnc pocket any of these, I just did them with a plunge router by hand. Largely cause I couldn't fully wrap my head around all the slots lining up in the computer. Once the pieces were all sectioned apart.<br />
I never got a picture of the main steel frame that went inside, but it was plenty durable! So the whole sign will mount to the posts via a 10 X 10 X 1/2" steel plate! Pretty heavy duty!<br />
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Jody did most of the sanding on all the pieces, while I hummed back and forth between sanding, and running the router. Believe it or not, I have actually sanded the finger prints off my right 2 fingers. Sounds funny, cause it is, but man, a hot coffee in the morning really makes them hurt! Jody's nails are all sanded funny too. They kind of all point off to the right now! Girls..........<br />
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But, sanding aside, it's coming along gangbusters!<br />
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And we just kept moving forward with the laminating of all the layers! Lots and lots of urethane glue was used, as well as a few hundred screws! We have done a whole bunch of monument signs for other shops out of HDU, so awhile ago, I cut about 200 HDU tapered plugs. These get glued and hammered in over all the screws. Then they get quickly sanded off, and you would never know they were there. HDU can be a bit of a pain with the glue. The HDU sands way faster than the glue, so you have to be really careful not to cup the material on each side of the glue join. But these plugs make hole filling a breeze!<br />
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And by the end of day 3, the front of the sign was complete!<br />
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We didn't forget about the back of it the either! The 1" HDU became a low relief version of the leaves on the front of the sign. These were a mirror copy, so they would line up around the edges. I wanted the back to look like the text was sitting in the bushes, I think it worked out pretty good!<br />
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The first step was to bring the 3d log model into Aspire for texturing.<br />
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I used my own woodgrain file I had created a while ago in Photoshop. I didn't want a realistic grain for this at all.<br />
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Bending and manipulating the shape of the grain to fit the log was pretty easy with Aspire's bitmap distortion tools. Mostly it was just a matter of flaring the ends to match the log shape!<br />
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Then with all the components arranged, I had to decide where I was going to split this out. The overall size of this job is 12 feet X 5 feet by 13 inches thick, so some thought had to go into getting it out of 4X8 sheets of material.<br />
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The sign got split into 4 quadrants, then each quadrant got sliced into the 2 inch slabs that our material came in.<br />
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In the end, there was 5, 2 inch sheets, and 1, 1 inch sheet of parts, that all looked pretty similar to the above image!<br />
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This was pretty much 2 solid days at the shop! Listening to the dust collector for 8 hours a day is enough to make me want to explode my brain ears. But finally all the parts have been cut!<br />
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Jody and I kinda worked side by side laminating all the panels up.<br />
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Jody also got started on the sculpted butterfly that's going on the one side of the sign. This was a simple structure made from 1/4" welded rod, and some galvanized metal lath. She used Apoxie sculpt- epoxy putty for doing the final shape of the insect.<br />
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Whatever I could laminate up off the machine, I would do right away, but with nesting all the pieces for the best yield, it pretty much meant I didn't have anything to assemble until the last sheet!<br />
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Slowly though, we made progress on the assembly. All the water drops got 3/8" steel rods inserted in them, to make them securely attach to the sign body.<br />
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Believe it or not, I don't actually have a set workflow that I follow EVERY time I set out to create something! I'm about as consistent as pure randomness can be :)<br />
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The sketch for the sign was done in a sketching program, but stuff like text, I always do in Corel first, then export it out as an image file. I figure, I'll need the vectors for the text anyway, so the beginning is just as good as anything to get them laid out. Plus, I do the vectors to actual size, so I can get a handle on the final, overall project size in the sketching software!<br />
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Then in the sketching software, every element gets drawn on a separate layer, so I can turn everything on or off, as I need.<br />
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With the text turned off, I can export a fairly clean image to bring into hexagon, this lets me see where all the leaves of the bushes belong, and they're overall shape, as the text block a lot of the leaves from view.<br />
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I started in 3d with the log, soccer ball, and the water splash, using the sketch as a basis for everything. I wont texture anything in Hexagon, as it's way more efficient to do in Aspire, when I move to that software. I did force the perspective on the log, so you could see the end better, just to give it a bit more awesomeness, and look like the original sketch.<br />
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The leaves were next. I only modeled one, then used the modifiers in Hexagon, to bend, squash, and twist the original leaf into the rest of leaves for the bush. I did these one at a time, laying them on the sketch for size and placement.<br />
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Bouncing over to Aspire, I imported my already created vectors, and used the 'Create Shape' tool to build them up to their final 3d shape. Text is so super fast to create in 3d in Aspire, plus it's usable for machining, it doesn't make sense to create the text anywhere else.<br />
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With everything modeled, and in place, I brought in the 3d text from Aspire, so I could do a final tweaking to the under/ overlap of the leaves on the text.<br />
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I planned from the start that this sign would actually have very little undercutting on the geometry. I'm totally OK with the final look that will give. Except for the water splash. I certainly don't want the splashing water to return right back to the sign. This will look pretty good from the side view!<br />
So I split off all the water splashes from the trunk of the splash, as they'll get cut as separate pieces.<br />
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Once the drops were cut off, I split each one in half, and laid the flat side of each one on an imaginary zero plane. This way I can import them as a group into Aspire for machining.<br />
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Recently we were contacted to create a sign for the Town of Tweed, more importantly, a sign for a new splash pad in the Town of Tweed. This new splash pad is being created in honor of a little girl named Emily Trudeau, who is no longer with us all. I won't go into to much detail here, but you can certainly click her image above, and the link will take you to the article about the new project.<br />
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We were given a list of everything that could hopefully be incorporated into the sign, so it was a hard task deciding what works, what doesn't work, and what things to finally settle on. Sometimes, a blank canvass can be overwhelming!! We were also supplied a preferable color palette as well.<br />
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In the end, I decided on a few items, that seemed to all work together well, without the sign becoming a collection of "stuff". I didn't want anyone quickly seeing the sign, and have to try and figure out what it was.<br />
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Soccer was a big part of her life, she loved splash pads, butterflies, and carnations as well. And I really wanted the final piece to be fun! Something that if I saw it, would make me smile, and a smile is a pretty big gift to be able to give someone!<br />
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Hmmmmm.......... Now I gotta figure out how to build this thing ;)<br />
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With all the components painted, it was on to upholstery! A sewing machine is not my most favorite piece of machinery, actually sewing is my least favorite activity that we do. Fortunately, we don't get to do it all that often! You can't actually see it clearly in the pictures, but we also added a magazine pouch, in-case they need it!<br />
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All in all, it is quite a simple little set.<br />
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And this is approximately what the final comp will end up like. If it was lit properly, and the tarmac didn't have our screw cabinet sitting on it, I'd believe it was shot inside a plane!<br />
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