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Big Trucks


The Long Truck




This one started as short, more like city delivery truck. But I started to temper with the design. I've honestly thought that this truck is going to have more screen time, or, at least, be more distant from the camera and therefore more of it been visible in the effect. That's just one more victim of editing. It could be vorse, I guess. It could be completely out...




	At this point I still wasn't sure if it's going to be a short vehicle. I based the design loosely upon Ford's COE 1941, but this one has more prominent nose and as a result doesn't look much like COE truck. This impression made it more suitable for a long trailer.















	Now it's easy to see I didn't need that truck so completed as it was. Top portion is out of the view, but, as I said, it should have been quite different. If I was smarter, I'd know better and I'd make just some facade-of-a-sort trailer, and much simpler cab. Eventually, I did that too, but the thing is, I could probably pull it off just with that another - short one. From the start, I've been inspired by some plastic parts for it's cab. It was only a matter of putting them togeter. So, have a look:
The Short Truck





And, finally, I used the cab of this Short Truck as a set decoration, a parked vehicle. That way, this simple assembly fullfiled it's purpose to the maximum. Many things I did for this film was usefull like this, but some, like the one below, were a different story.
The Garbage Truck































Unfortunately, I wasn't able to use the Garbage Truck to it's full purpose. I made it to the highest standards among all vehicles, as the firmest of them all, and the only one with complicated, animable (for stop-motion) mechanism for feeding it with garbage containers. It was also capable of supporting at least one walkable puppet. I was even poundering about mechanism for acheiving shock-absorbers effect on breaking, when gabage workers jump off, when lifting and emptying the garbage container. But at the end, I've dropped that shot as unneccessary. It made it's way into animatic, as the very last shot, actually after the end, as the end-title shot. I shot the background, though. And I've left the truck and garbage workers for the last shot to do, in front of green or blue screen. But, as I said, I gave up on it. So it was lots of work for nothing. It'd be good if that's the sole example, but there's lot of such mishaps in this film.
The Unfinished Truck




This truck, actually cab-alone, didn't get much screen-time, and even that's just a decorative function as a minor element on the edge of a shot, or maybe two. However, the cab was already almost fully assembled by the time I figured out I'm going to need something different for that perticular spot. I had a choice: I could re-paint in different color some of the cabs I already used, or - I could simply fresh paint that cab?