This is Sierra. I have known her since, like, senior year of high school. She has sort of become my go-to model from time to time, and who knows how many times I've drawn her. She also has several pieces of my art.
A few years ago, after doing a crappy stop-motion video of my Godzilla action figure and a couple Zoids models smashing up and setting fire to two model houses put together in highschool art class, I wanted to play more with stop-motion. Specifically, I wanted to do something with live actors and/or actresses. Specifically, Sierra. I knew it would be in black and white, and I wanted Sierra to be a hacker who starts getting haunted by ghosts.
It never happened.
A little while later, I got a completely DIFFERENT idea, more of a photography thing, about a girl searching for and confronting her own doppelganger. Again, I had Sierra, who happens to be a Gemini, in mind. But that never happened either.
Flash forward to this semester, and I'm in a film and animation class. We have to do a large solo project, and something involving animation, so I started thinking, and dug up the two aforementioned old ideas. And then I promptly fused them. Once more, I had one person in mind to play the lead girl and her doppelganger/ghost, and that had to be Sierra. Especially because I don't really know anyone else with the patience to do stop-motion animation and who is willing and trusting enough to follow me through my crazy ideas.
So the short live action stop-motion animated silent black and white cyberpunk thing is called Black Hole Ghost, and we started shooting today. YAY PROGRESS! The photo above is a shot I took and manipulated in Photoshop to get an idea of how I want it to look. Which is, like Pi. In stop-motion. Because Pi is my favorite movie.
Speaking of which! Yesterday was Pi Day. So we watched Pi last night, my girlfriend and I. Any excuse to watch my favorite movie is a good one.
[Brett]