The Crows of Pearblossom is a stop-motion animatoin adapted from Aldous Huxley's only children's book of the same title. Characters and the sets they interact with were sculpturally constructed, green screened, and placed on backgrounds created in Adobe Photoshop. All characters have hand-made ball-and-socket armatures inside and were formed with cast and cured foam latex in plaster-cast molds. The characters' eyes and mouths were made from resin cast in silicone molds. Magnets were attached to the back of each mouth and eye piece as well as embedded into the foam latex body for the mouths and eyes to attach to. This allowed the various mouth shapes, eye blinks, and reactions to be placed and replaced on the face for animation purposes.

Medium:characters were made with foam latex, ribbon, brass, steel, and resin; backgrounds created in Photoshop using scanned images of fabric and other photographed items; tangible sets were created with plaster, plywood, spackle, yarn, and paint

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