Special Guignol: small making of! The 9th Meeting of the approach of Christmas, my friend Bruno and his girlfriend Sylvie company
"The Wonders of Showmen" asked me to improve their performances Guignol in making new designs.
A year ago they only travel the road to entertain the little ones, and at first the sets were painted on plywood by friends in a homely, to troubleshoot. He had to go into settings that resemble the graphic illustrated posters, and so it is great because I'm the poster from the beginning.
The proof, which has just been completed for the upcoming show, "Santa has disappeared."
The image shows the successive stages of completion: first quick sketch, sketch advanced inking, defining areas of solid color, wash on paper work, assembly of the ink, and color wash on the same project digital displays and finally finish.
Well, then here is how did the job over the past 3 weeks (it just ended for my part).
Here puppet and the caravan in which the shows take place.
should decorate them with a background which will be printed on canvas, and successive foreground, which will also be drawn on the sheet, but laminated on a rigid support.
The decorations must be able to operate in one as in the other, but for issues of viewing angle, the background scenery is available in two versions, showing more or less things.
I also made decorative elements printed on adhesive so that the caravan is not even blue or red.
The first basic sketches. They are very hardy but give not only sets the tone for future definitive, they are also good for testing proportions, as you can see below.
Sylive and Bruno live in the Herault, I live in Vienna, he had to find a way to verify that there would be no major assembly problems and visibility. I first thought about doing 3D in Google SketchUp, but I had to learn the software, and Sylvie, Bruno, handle it well. But time was very short. It was decided to make cardboard models to scale 1 / 10 th.
It was very helpful to really know what was important to emphasize, that gave the coast almost final.
Following this, a first sketch was made possible refined. You can all see below, but initially I did that one.
Bruno is worried a good overview of the work before the final work, I proposed to send mail all the elements of decor in their final, cut into pieces printable on A4 sheets. A few hours cutting, gluing the tape later, they were able to test in the caravan and the castle. This has redefined the coast, which became a standart for all the rods.
The sketches are completed, I was able to get into the created the final. Meanwhile Bruno and Sylvie have quotes, I have prepared this file to ask for rates. Ultimately, it Ludo Studio, photo studio and print all supported 50 miles from my house to be retained. Good thing I love going home and I could take pictures of scenery printed before they are shipped.
Contrary to what is written, it will not be on the digital cutting PVC, but on the canvas cut with scissors, and glued, for budget reasons.
inking drawings. These are not executed in final format, because I scan at 1200 DPI in black and white so I can have all the necessary finesse. In addition, the decorations are made to be seen from afar, he's not licked it is in the detail seen up close, it's more the domain of the box of comics printed and enlarged. Some tools, Pentel brush pens, white ink Rotring for blending, and a host of indelible markers of all sizes, for varying line thicknesses.
; The inking finished, scanned and the final format at 150 dpi I did all the tedious steps first, to have the fun part for last. Thus defining areas of solid colors, to select parts of the image separately, and treat them separately.
As is my custom, I went to wash over a printed version of the ink with touches of white gouache material. The wash over the back are moistened and pressed between sheets of white typing paper, under a hundredweight of good books.
Decorations finalized version meeting to give an overview:
And version exploded to show the detail of each element .
I forgot to say that backdrop comes back 2 times, for reasons of cost: The same background is used to house the mother and the bogeyman, and for a hostel with red curtains.
Finally, the file sent to the printer. The kinds of bugs are in fact the graphic bleed needed to make a hem behind each item. This is a single pixel stretched over 6 cm and is of course invisible to the end.
I'll post a sequel to this article when the sets will be printed and installed.
