mechanisms and bodies

We spent yesterday's class cutting open the hollowed heads we had made on tuesday and figuring out mechanisms for the different movements each character would require. I drilled two holes in the back of the egg so that we could pass a wire through them and make the egg wobble.


Farrell, Mike and Matt worked on attaching the lower beaks to the heads using wire and wooden dowels and also cut horizontal slits in the eyes so that we could insert wires with cardboard pupils attached to them and have simple eye movements. Jan and I began making bodies for Mike's and Matt's birds, respectively. We used the same clay and plaster bandage method that we used to make the heads. I finished all three layers so I should be able to come in during the weekend and cut the mold in half and make wings to attach to the body.