On Our Own 04: Olive’s Story

On Our Own 03: Fern’s Story

***** Fern is now my official representative in the 1/4 scale dolls. I love Willow's quiet grace, but I am neither quiet or graceful. I love Olive's take charge spirit, but that's not me either. Fern, little as she is, is someone I completely understand. Which is why I knew, when she was sad and...

Playing with dolls, again

It's seems an odd reminder to someone whose hobby is photographing and creating stories around dolls, but I seem to have forgotten all about playing with the little things. I got so caught up in the posing and the photographing and the photoshopping and the layout that I'd entirely forgotten the magic at the center...

Bringing dolls to life: Animated GIFs

I did a little playing around this last week animating the littlest sister in On Our Own. I'll never be a stop motion animator - mainly because I haven't the patience, but also because my dolls' movements have so much play in them that I simply can't have them do a seamless motion. I'd move...

Starting Fern’s Story – Adventuring with dolls

It seems I often find my dolls like this, sitting in chairs (or benches, in this case) waiting for their adventure to begin. In Fern's case, she's about to start a grand-ish adventure, if I could just figure out what it was :). What I'd *like* to do is do very short animations with her...

On Our Own 02: Willow’s Story

(Re)Begin the Beguine

Here's the thing - there's a rhythm to a graphic novel panel that just isn't there where you post all of the photos in a blog. So, take the first panel from On Our Own (which I didn't change) I very deliberately set it up so it was 3 good things to one bad, all...

On Our Own 01 (redo)

In lieu of a premise song ("here's a story, of three girls named after plants . . ."), I've created a premise episode for On Our Own (used to be called Overhead). Done, naturally, in just hands. Well, actually, in hands plus some clothes, because I realized you couldn't tell them apart with just their...

Overhead: First night in the treehouse

After building a rough platform in their last episode, Fern and Olive are finishing off the floor of the treehouse. Well, maybe Fern is doing most of the work. When it's all done, they relax and admire their work. Then Willow puts on a record . . . . . . and everybody dances. All...

Dancing dolls

I take back everything I said about Olive's (my Iplehouse Amy doll's) posing ability in my previous post. Apparently, although she's not always able to resist the forces of gravity, she can totally dance. I think her dancing ability comes from the way her chest joint pivots. Unlike most of my ball-joint dolls, she can...