BRS★WIP Body Sculpture

here is a pic of the WIP body sculpture. this is still far from done but it's a good base sculpt. it will have carefully refined proportions and alot of smoothing. this will later be made into a body-mould n order to cast latex skin for BRS and other characters with a similar body type, so it will be a useful mould for future puppets too.

BRS★First Progress

Alright folks, some progress!, to begin from the start; the drawing is drawn in the actual scale of the puppet on a A3 paper, so the puppet will stand roughly 13" high and are somewhere between 1/4 and 1/5 scale. 

The armature are made from aluminium wire which are bendable in order to animate the puppet, they are wired together to get a stronger armature. there are bolts in her feet, sealed with epoxy putty, in order to drill holes in the set and fix the feet to the ground with screws. there is also a square profile in her back, its fixed by the epoxy above her legs (but its not visible from the front), this will allow me to fix a thinner profile into her back, which are set on a rig. the rig will allow jump/running animations.

the head are made using a head sculpt ive made for a recent project, and is cast in resin. the face is originally changeable for animating expressions but since Black Rock Shooter will be expressionless i decided to use epoxy to fill in the lines and have the face glued on, to make a more smooth and refined finish, there are also three thin wires inserted and wired together into the head, in total six wires, 3 per twintail, which is one short and one long, this in order to animate the hair. Hair are added from cutting sections from a black wig and glued on. head is not fully finished yet as it needs some final touch-ups.

Body sculpture are in the progress, this will be moulded so that i can cast on latex skin on the puppet. in the past i made the skin in fabric and brushed on latex, it looked good but was not as smooth as a cast coould be, so this is a experiment to try how to improve the finish to the puppets, so stay tuned! the pics of the sculpt will be up soon!

Welcome to BRS★EXTEND

Welcome to BRS★EXTEND. Extend as in extension, an unofficial extension of the official franchise of course.

BRS★EXTEND or BRS★E for short (even shorter) is a Stop Motion project inspired by the existing promotional short of BRS that was released with the OVA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3Q-z0Y4nn8) with the exception that i want to further evolve this with even more detail and more action. BRS will have a foe to face this time (we saw dead master in the original but we never saw a fight), I'm not having her fight dead master though, who she will face is secret until later. instead of only a checker floor and a misty background i will also further build up some inviroments based on Huke's wonderful illustrations of BRS.

Why did i chose Stop Motion you might ask?, simply put i am a stop motion animator, but i love Anime, and i love BRS, and this is not my first "MangaMotion" project either. except doing original concepts i enjoy doing these fan-projects aswell, and this project just as any is to give some fan support and evolve as a animator and puppet builder!.

BRS★EXTEND don't have a confirmed  finishing date yet but i hope it will be ready for fans to enjoy during summer. No film runtime is set yet either, but it's not planned to be a very long film, nor have any complicated plot, expect some enjoyable action that lasts longer than the 30sec of the official promotional stop motion

the BRS puppet are in the works, aswell as her oponent, a puppet of Mato is maybe a go too, depends on what the script will contain. Pics of progress will be up shortly!

That's it for now, expect updates every now and then!