Great stop action movie idea
Dan Swearingen | January 4, 2011
Great project idea. This is a short animated movie that aired on Showtime.
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Painting the Hasbro AT-AT
Dan Swearingen | August 16, 2010
Our new coffee table (a.k.a. the Hasbro STAR WARS AT-AT) was looking a bit too “plastic” so I used it as an excuse to re-climb the learning curve on my Aztek airbrush. Here is the unfinished side as a “before” I free-hand airbrushed the panel lines with a medium-dark gray (Tamiya XF-53 neutral grey) with [...]
Project idea: micro model railroads
Dan Swearingen | August 10, 2010
Micro Layouts are small model railroads and are a sub-genre of model railroading that lends itself well to small bite-size projects. Small Layout Scrapbook has been around for many years and is a great source for these layouts. They present great opportunities to make dramatic scenes. This is a small mining layout that can be [...]
Project idea: animating ordinary objects
Dan Swearingen | July 14, 2010
This is a really cool movie made by Patrick Boivin and this kind of movie would be an excellent project for one of our students. Here’s the Making-Of reel showing some of the techniques used. Note that the studio has acquired the Hasbro’s latest release of the “Star Wars 3.75″ Super Deluxe Vehicle: AT-AT.” Just [...]
Project ideas: Robots and Robot sculpture
Dan Swearingen | March 29, 2010
I have an RSS news feed from Dark Roasted Blend going and they often have great project inspirations. This morning’s was Utterly Irresistible Robot Sculptures –pictures of really amazing robot sculptures.
Project idea: CycleKarts!
Dan Swearingen | January 1, 2010
A CycleKart is a small four wheeled car made to look like one of the classic racing sports cars of the 1920′s or 1930′s. Power is specified as a 200 cc Honda one-cylider engine. Wheels are based on 17″ x 2″ motorcycle rims. Total car weight must be under 250 lbs. I love the look [...]
A more perfect world (or globe)
Dan Swearingen | November 16, 2009
Lots of trial and error learning goes on in our workshops. Sometimes the emphasis is on “error.” One of our students from an early workshop, Reggie, wanted to make a globe. We said “sure.” Our strategy was to build it out of layers of pine — and that was REALLY hard. We all took turns [...]
Project idea: Shelf diorama of Indiana Jones
Dan Swearingen | November 13, 2009
I tripped across this beautiful diorama project posted and built by Maxime Pécourt who lives in Paris, France. What a fun idea.
Project inspiration: MUSE video “Uprising”
Dan Swearingen | November 7, 2009
This is a beautifully done video made by filming art miniatures with the band masked in. Love the killer teddy bears. The song is okay too.
Star Trek communicator bluetooth “headset”
Dan Swearingen | November 6, 2009
Wow, are there some serious nerds out there! They make me happy. Diana Eng over at Make presents an awesome project taking a toy Star Trek original series communicator and making it into a bluetooth headset for your cell phone. I actually own one of these toy communicators and this would be a great project [...]