Ss2- Looking into mime and the film maker Jacques Tati

The Magnificent Tati (2009)

IMDB: "This documentary traces Jacques Tati's rise from the Parisian Music-Hall stage to his Oscar winning films of the 1950s, the documentary then explains how Tati bet all he had on his fourth film 'PlayTime' and how this mammoth film ended prematurely the career of a genius while also giving the world one of the most beautiful films ever made"


Furthering my knowledge of other areas of comedy including Jacques Tati a great innovator in comedy in film looking at everyday situations and finding the humour in what we don't pay attention to usually and bringing the art of mime to a while other level.

Instantly noticed the similarities between Tati and the man from The illusionist which was because there is directed by Sylvain Chomet. The film is based on an unproduced script written by French mime, director and actorJacques Tati in 1956. Controversy surrounds Tati's motivation for the script, which was written as a personal letter to his estranged eldest daughter, Helga Marie-Jeanne Schiel in collaboration with his long-term writing partner Henri Marquet, between writing for the films Mon Oncle and Play Time.

Ss1-Don't be rood say hello!Animating first puppet.

Just a little something i made earlier...

Dragon Stop-motion

First puppet wasn't a full success but can you tell,set up my new software Dragon today with control pannel and started making a little clip a test really to see how my puppet was to animate and what have you.

  Painted him in a Mime way which looks different but when it comes to animate the character is very friendly, also testing out a latex hand i made prior in the week which i matched up the colours to keep to the same character.

This puppet is a before puppet to get the learning proccess of software,materials,character and lighting up to scratch for my 10 second clip which will be used and be marked on for Ss1 and my Canimation project.

Before adding colour and making more of a mime out of him the reason of the shine is i might of over done it on the latex as it was the first puppet i latexed which i think would of worked a little better if i added the colour before the latex.

Third puppet in the making

This is my next puppet which i have already started on which will have no mouth in place like the others instead will be using replacement mouths to be able to lip sync emotions a lot easier and might just use my acrylic eyes which i have been saving.