New Project inspired by Gustav Klimt paintings and drawings

This semester I am creating a short 2 minute film that was inspired but looking at the drawings by Gustav Klimt at the Getty Center here in Los Angeles. I started thinking about how cool it would be to try to get the same expressive gesture and movement in a stop motion puppet, and I started doing some sketches and ideation about how I would build her. I also decided that I would love to try animating more stop motion underwater scenes after my experience as assistant animator on a student shoot at AFI.

You can see here the images by Klimt and other artists that inspired me.

My basic concept is that a Klimt-inspired woman is terrorized by a mechanical hand that casts her of a cliff into the sea. I like the idea of showing the conflict and contrast between these two puppets, which kind of remind me of the two sides of art and technology at odds with each other.

Here are some sketches I have done:

Mechanical Hand- the bad guy

Puppet reference based on Klimt painting

Fabrication ideas

more fabrication ideas and sketches

Hopefully it will come looking good! I want to experiment with using green screen backgrounds for my shoot and comping in cool backgrounds and lighting in After Effects. We will see how it goes!