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Photo Gallery I have fabricated many armatures over the years but unfortunately I was not able to record every project with a camera. Deadline schedules were usually, very incredibly short and there was no time at all to properly photograph my work. For instance, I did not take any pictures of the many animation armatures / puppets for Will Vinton Studio's, The PJ's ; did not take any photographs of the armatures I made for Tippett Studio's poseable dinosaur armatures for Jurassic Park dinosaurs; no photos of Galaxis armature / puppet; and other armatures & projects that I did not capture with my camera. Also, there are some armatures that I cannot show at this time. I regret my lazy attitude about not doing better documentation of my work and of course, I never thought that I would some day try this little experimental web site, on the subject of Stop Motion Animation. "Click" on the on the Images ____________________________________________ |
 The initial objective was, for me to
produce about 2 duplicate armatures a week (very optimistic); I had to design,
make schematics, then painstakenly fit the armatures to the molds (not
the preferable method); the schedule was very rushed. For each puppet
character, I constructed anywhere, from 2 to 6 duplicate armatures. Some
armatures were fully jointed and some of the arm-hand appendages were wires
because joints would not fit. Other armatures, were some combination of joints
& wires. Again, I did not photograph all the armatures. Just to remind you,
these armatures were for the background puppets. The notable armature maker,
Tom St. Amand & his crew fabricated the armatures for the main puppet
characters. |
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 I was
responsible for designing & constructing the jointed armatures for one of
the three main puppet characters called Squishington. Also, I fabricated
armature spare parts, some puppet rod mounting rigs and accessories. Into the
production, they needed more quantities of Squishys and they decided not to
continue with the fully jointed Squishy armatures & switch to a simpler
Plug-in Wire Armature System, that is, if any wire appendage broke on
the Squishy puppets, the wires could easily be replaced via a clamping system
that fastened the wires to the armature torso or hip blocks. I did not get a
chance to photograph the wire armature version. So, I only have a few images of
just the Squishy jointed armatures. I think, I made about 8 fully jointed
duplicate armatures for that one puppet character & all the rest were wire
armature designs.. |
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As I mentioned before, the armature
representation of the Warrior bug was not covered with any rubber skin; when
you view the images, it resembles a cy borg-like mechanical version of the insect
creature. When Phil Tippett was intially hiring some of the crew that would be
animating on the Starship Troopers project, he had an open audition
call for anyone who had the fortitude to manipulate this multi-appendaged
monstrosity; even I was intimidated by my own articulated creation, and so, I
declined to take the stop motion animation examination. |
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