Model and Set Making

After going thought my storyboards with Tandy I decided to cut down on the amount of pigeons I was going to have in my film. I cut it down to three pigeons instead of five.
I made these pigeons out of Balsa wood and aluminum wire, once they where glued into shape I shaped the wood, smoothed off the corners and made them more rounder. After that I covered them with tights and stuffed them. I use tights because its very stretchy, and just normal stuffing. When I got the pigeon shape I was looking for I covered the models in gray material, sewing it together, leaving the feet and beck on show. The feet the beck where cover in modeling clay, the eyes where added last, also using modeling clay. 

The Seagull was made in the same way.

Once these where all made I moved into making my sets, this way I could get the right proportions from model to set. Doing this I found out that my Robot was going to be huge,compared with my work area. To get around this I decided to make I smaller scale set, which would be of the Robot on the park bench with little pigeons.
These little pigeons where also make on wire and wood, but they didn't have as much move ability as the bigger one, but this should work out alright for long shots.

My set where made using a base on MDF, I got a packet of fish gravel and made a path, used green material for the hills, the bench was made of wood, as was the robot, and as the robot didn't move he was made a solid model. His clothes where made of black material, which just covered the wooden skeleton.

The grain tray was made by painting some of the fish gravel yellow and sticking some of it onto the MDF. The rest was left loose. I did this because I had left the places where the pigeons or seagull would stand just plain, the loose ones where to cover the gaps if they weren't on set.
Jo made me my sky backgrounds, these where just chalk on card.