Back to Tree of Life

It has been a while since my last post about the film. I have been having a very busy summer; spending time with our families in July. At the beginning of August, our babysitter quit working -she’s getting married- and my daughter started to go to kindergarten half day, 5 days a week. So, we have […]

Tree of life….. completed? – almost

It has been about a month I have not posted anything here. I have been working on the tree. Vaooww… 3 weeks, one tree…  I relly like trying to do things I have never done before. This is my first tree for a stop-mo set. So, a lot of fun but at the same time, […]

Birds in the Nests, Nests in the Tree

Yes, it is finished… Tree of life, birds, nests. I will work on the roots when making the rocky surface but other than that all done. You can click to below picture to enlarge. It is 4:35 in the morning. Another stolen night to spend on stop motion is almost over. Away from my all […]

From Halfland… From Shelley..

This morning, I have received a pack of love, friendship, warmth, life, support, goodwill, happiness from the land of Halfland. A treasure came all the way from California. It was one of the most emotional moments in my life.. opening up the envelope, seeing all those beautiful things she sent me. I met Shelley after […]

Making of a Bird Armature

Bird armature for Kush: Kush is an eagle like bird living on top of the tree of life… When I first started working on the bird armature, I thought I could go away with a complete wire and epoxy one. But, I want her to fly, land, shake her head,… So, especially her shoulders needed to […]

Kush’s Armature and a Weekend Trip

I have been working on Kush. She is going to be an eagle like bird living on top of the tree of life. She is going to have a wire armature, supersculpy head. As it is spring here, we went to sea side on saturday. And I had the armature with me. Hey.. can I […]

meet adem and kush

These are the characters of my stop motion short. Meet ?? Nope, not yet. But for now, let me give you some information about the characters: Adem: The name “adem” is the turkish word for “adam” He is an human being slave of the chronos. Kush: The bird that lives on top of the Tree […]

Stop Motion Set Piece: Zodiac… completed!

I have completed one of the stop motion set pieces; zodiac part. I made these out of insulation foam. For the above test pics, I added some moss around. When I put the whole set together, I will add dirt all around besides carefully placed mosses, some dead brances and maybe some roots coming from […]

My First Automaton – Kiftaro

Finally I am posting here about Kiftaro. I started making handmade wooden automaton couple of months ago. There was another try dated back couple of years ago when I was working on my stop motion film. It was going to be a carousel but I just made some wooden gears, etc.. and did not finish. […]

Chronos – Late Goodbye To An Old Friend

Time was made for slaves… Yes, I was never able to finish Chronos. After my post dated Feb 2011 here, I kept working on my stop motion film for more time but did not post here. During that time, I added more scenes, puppets, ideas, etc.. And eventually we moved out to a new house […]