Wolf Animatronic: mouth movement

Since I had trouble with the mouth movement on my animatronic wolf, the first draft,  i've been researching potential ways of setting up the servo for better movement. I found one set up on BPEsolutions.com  that I think I will give a try:

Hands and Ears

The previous week I decided to take a break from the animation scene drawings and start on some of the elements for my Animatronic sculpture(s). In hopes of making my wolf animatronic look as anatomically correct as possible I studied wolf ears and bone structure to start carving ears from foam and sculpt skeleton hands.

 

 

The ears are carved from upholstery foam, the ridges in the ear are to semi mimic a more anatomically correct look of a canine ear. I also found some nude colored fabric to line the inner part of the ear to look more like skin. eventually the outer part of the ear will be covered in fur and the inner part of the ear will be painted to give a more realistic look.

 

I also started to sculpt skeleton fingers for the sculpture, I'm still not sure if I'll be makeing one or more figures so I decided to create a mold of the fingers so I can mass produce them if I need to. I will be casting the fingers in Resin.

Character design Concepts

More animation background Scenes

Animation Backgrounds scenes

These images were the concepts for the leopard and hunter jungle scenes, just me trying to get a feel for the background and experimenting with how I want to handle colors and tones.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cosmology, Creation myth story notes and Audio

Soooo I was having a little trouble writing out my cosmology so with the aid of my mom I tried recording myself telling my story out loud to help me get my thoughts together as well as write out some notes for future reference.

Unfortunately I couldn't get the audio recording to link to this blog once I figure it out i'll post it but for now this is my cosmology. I'm sure I have some grammatical errors here and there but this is the general idea to start off with.

The creation myth of the triumvirate of Cerberus

 

my Cosmology:

The universe was created by a great humanoid being of light that expelled it's energy to fill the darkness with the light of stars and planets. With every new thing that creator made it used up more energy and over time became weak. Unbeknownst to the creator the excess power surging throughout the darkness gave life to another being, a massive shadowy wolf with a thousand eyes. The wolf beast skulked through the darkness and devoured various stars releasing their energy back into the universe and the creator itself. At first the creator was angered that the beast was eating up its creations till it realized that every time a star died the creator would gain back it's energy and became strong enough to give new life to new planets and stars. 

 For a time this was the cycle, the wolf beast would devour old stars while the creator gave life to new stars, the two massive beings became companions allowing each other to survive. After many centuries the creator longed to fabricate others like itself and give them the power to give life, coming across a solar system the creator chose a planet orbiting a yellow star and poured it's energy into the tiny rock. The creator watched as the crust shifted and water formed onto the surface, the creator poured more of it's energy into the world and watched as trees and mountains grew from the earth, finally the creator poured even more energy into the world and humanoids began to form. The creator thought about the beast fondly and formed many more creatures so the humanoids could have companions of their own. The creator looked upon the planet fondly but as it turned to leave it felt weak, suddenly it's legs degenerated from underneath it, it's hands and arms disintegrated before it's eyes, as the population of life grew the planet pulled more and more energy away from the creator threatening to suck it dry. The beast came forth, seeing the creator grow weaker and weaker it turned to devour the planet before it could steal away all the energy but the creator would not allow it.

The beast could only watch as the creator began to fade, it saw the suffering of the creator and the planets inhabitants as the never ending clutches of illness, famine, carnage and chaos befell them. It was then that the beast reached inside itself and produced three sets of it's own bones, it then reached up and plucked out one of it's eyes from the center of it's forehead and sent it and the first set of bones to the planet below, the black shape of a wolf formed around the bones and the eye and thus became Mortis the Shepherd of illness and famine. The beast reached inside itself for a second time and plucked out it's still beating heart. It sent the heart and the second set of bones down to the planet below, the red shape of a wolf formed around the bones and the heart and thus became Nex the Hunter of carnage and blood shed. The beast reached into itself one last time and produced a small shred of it's soul, the beast sent it and the last set of bones to the planet below, the blue translucent shape of a wolf formed around the bones and shred of soul and thus became Obitus the companion of those to die a peaceful death. The Triad bounded across the world relieving the suffering of the dying, returning their energy to the creator above. When the creator was strong again it embraced it's companion, the creator took from it's body a reasonable quantity of energy and distributed it across the world allowing the planet's inhabitants to continue to create life of their own, The creator and the beast left the planet and continued into the black void knowing the three descendants of the beast would keep the balance amongst all the living things and allow the even flow of all energy on the earth.        

 

Extra Notes:

 

 

Triumvirate

Trinity

Troika

Triad

Triume

Triunity

Trine

Triplicate

Ternion

trio

 

 

Wolf = devour

Consume

Swallow whole

Take nourishment

 

Her wolves release the energy of the souls.  The energy sits in the void of their stomachs until it is released

The energy is released when they breath it back into people.

 

Her image of the wolf with the glowing ball in it's mouth is part of this mythology

 

A creator = artist

Creator = beginning

Creator = causation

Creator == genesis

Creator = maker

Creator = celestial

 

Release = liberation

Spring

 

 

Being = animal, beast, body, conscious thing, creature

Entity, living thing, organism, soul

 

 

energy= animation, spirit, power, vitality, force, life,

 

Cerberus =

Curator, keeper, overseer, protector, steward, bodyguard, cleaner, escort, custodian, guardian, angel, attendant, champion, chaperone, defender, paladin, sentinel, shepherd, watchdog

 

Colors

Black, red, blue

Next step - look up the meanings of these colors

 

Eyes and third eye

Look up the symbolism

 

 

The void

Then there is pulsing light = expelling his energy and pulsing in all directions

Energy swirling into a massive form - mixing with the darkness - like the soul eater - but darker than dark  with highlights revealing his form. Like a black hole - he absorbs light.

 

Illustrations will accent the story

Color will be added to important concepts like the triad

Journal 1

I'm currently writing out the Cosmology of my Characters in full detail, I started writing it 5 days ago but have since then gotten distracted by productive tasks as well as non-productive Tasks but it is my goal to have it done by tomorrow evening Jan 26 2015 and have it posted and sent to my teacher.