PROTOtype triffid, testing movement

head moving..check
tongue moving..kind of check, needs to be more dramatic, we can do this by extending the sensor cross.
leaf moving..not check..need another piece to the puzzle...it WILL work soon.

very happy with todays progress.
cant wait to get back to college to the workshop!!!!

Little bit more artwork for Triffidness

Location illustration and root texture sample, I thinking of covering a metal frame in fabric? experiment one anyway.

Technical-logical electrical clever moving stuff

My Grandad makes toy flying planes as a hobby and so has shown me how to wire it to make it move. With a budget transmitter i can have 4 parts of the Triffid moving. I have chosen to have the mouth moving on a hinge, a tounge(tendril) emerging from the mouth and 2 leaves moving on the branches. The wires will be in the stem. The sensors, receiver(receives signal from transmitter), battery and switch will be in the roots/legs. I have built a simple wooden holder for the sensors, the white crosses move and therefore move the wires attatched. I was thinking the Transmitter controller could be chained to the Triffid at the exhibition maybe and viewers could move the Triffid themselves. ? Here is a diagram or two and a picture. I now must make the frame work for a prototype to test the movement.(Green=battery, Red=switch, Purple=receiver,Blue=Sensors x4)

Sketches for Triffids New Project

Final Major Project! I am designing the Triffids for DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS. Man eating plants, went to Kew Gardens to begin, HUGE gardens, would be a great day out with a picnic, best plants in the Princess of Wales Conservatory. Here is some art work for the Triffid, I think it looks very organic...is this sophistication coming through? or is it lacking in design? need peer reviews.

centrals student producitons

Just seen 'Call of the Wild' at the Central school of speech and drama, they should really be checked out, brillant stuff, great to see the students from acting, lighting, puppetry, sound etc getting together and making final piece stuff. pleassure to watch, they had so much energy. the puppets were made out of card, the lead dog was particularrly impressive, layers of card, creating an illusion of a thick mane.

the students worked with members of the Blind Summit Theatre, (im such a fan) Nick Barnes did the puppets with them, im very jealous.

just want to reccomend going to see their future productions!

sid the jabberwocky puppet

ah, so ive made my first puppet,

alice through the looking glass, jabberwocky by lewis carol

just seen the film and mines very different.

its made from metal rods twisted together, joints added, paper mache, painted and varnished.

its a combonation of a chicken carcus body, loctus legs, fish mouth, extinct cannibul skull and tusks.

and obviously SID is the only name for it.

final results of my golden monkey costume

for Northern lights by Philip Pullman, so much fun,
make up done by a very talented girl in my class going in for make up, great working with her, see was also the model,

exhausted with portfolio prep. first degree interview tomorow, im more excited than nervous. but failing this year means being shipped back to lincolnshire and working in gosh knows where.
fingers crossed.

oh yea..got to make a puppet this week..the jabberwocky by lewis carol...sure ile just wack it out over breakfast :S i need bernards watch! but exciting stuff, its going to be a combination of allsorts.