Explorer props!

Sooo, I was planning on starting to animate today, but alas I left the top bit of my tripod at home so not to have a completely wasted day I thought I'd do some blogging!

For the explorer & monkey scene the explorer needed some props, a hat and a travellers bag.

I made the hat out of this sort of net material, which was awful to sew so i ended up sewing material of a similar colour underneath it to stop it from all coming apart. The photos below show all of the steps!

To make the bag I just grabbed any brown scrap material I could find! Along with that I found trousers for a doll, which had little pockets! Ready made pockets = less sewing!

I sewed the brown materials ends together, sewed on the ready made pocket then added a bit of patterned material on the top.

I wanted it to actually function like a bag-pack, so I sewed a running stitch along the top of the bag then pulled the string, and ta-da! It closes!

And to keep it closed I added a button, and then to finish it off added straps!

     

Explorer props = Done!

   

A baker for bread, and a Prince for... whatever..

The first thing I had to make was a teeny bakers hat for my armature!

So firstly to make the band for the hat, I measured a stripe of white felt around the armatures head, and then sewed material over the top. 

To create the top of the hat, I had to ruffle the bottom of the white felt, then sew it onto the hat band. 

The hat band ends were then sewed together, and put inside out so I could sew a ruffle into the top of the hat. 

Then I turned the hat the right side out and ta daaa! 

Oh, and I've also made a little cake stand for the animation too. This was super quick too make so kinda tempted to make another, neater one. To give me something to mould the clay around I used balsa wood. Then used FIMO oven clay to do the rest!