Animating a Calder-inspired Wire Sculpture

As simple as it is, I think that animating this puppet was my favorite. It was fun to figure out how to make it expressive with limited and abstracted features, and it was definitely the most challenging use of the fishline flying rig.

I did some lighting tests on the Zemeckis stage at USC where I had lots of space to see how to best light the wire for green screen.

Then I mimicked that lighting setup as closely as possible on the Stop Motion shooting stage. 

Against my water footage, she's looking pretty nice.