PROJECT BLOG | Jon Hartman

Aug 20

ALSO! Keep Your Eyes Peeled for Pinocchio!

Ya boy may or may not have something to do with this project: https://deadline.com/2020/08/guillermo-del-toro-netflix-pinocchio-movie-cat...

Aug 20

Watch The Shivering Truth Season Two (if you want to)

I built sets and props for the second season of The Shivering Truth on Adult Swim. I can't take responsibility for the nature of the con...

Jan 15

Watch Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood!

In 2018, I worked on the Tom Hanks starring Mr. Rogers movie Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. It has now been released! I was a model ...

Jul 19, 2019

Forest Experiments

I've been sort of noodling around with this in the background for a while now. I'd like to keep working on it, I think, but I've stared ...

Dec 8, 2018

I've Been Away!

For the past few months, I've been working on a real large actual job for a real large actual production company. I can't talk too much ...

Jun 28, 2018

Building a Building (Updated)

I am not yet quite done with this, but it has been AGES since I posted an update. This took me a while. I usually enjoy tedious tasks, bu...

Mar 27, 2018

Sculptural Interlude

It's been a while since I sculpted something just for the heck of it. I had a hunk of clay that I didn't like, so I decided to use it up...

Mar 18, 2018

Frog Puppet

I made another puppet. Some more foam buildup. My visual goal was similar to the last one, but I think this method didn't serve this pup...

Mar 1, 2018

FAN

So, uh, it's a big day for my website. Here's my short. Don't show it to kids. Or the elderly.

Mar 1, 2018

Puppet Time

I made a puppet. It's built on an armature that is similar to the B&S one I just made, but I wanted to keep that bad boy open for tweaks.

Feb 12, 2018

Completed Armature

I made a head. For the final puppet, should I use this armature, I might add a bit of structure to give more support to other parts of t...

Feb 9, 2018

More Than Hands

This is most of the rest of this armature. Ignore the scary dungeon basement backdrop. I'm working on the head now, which I think is th...

Jan 25, 2018

HANDS!

This is my first pass on some fully-articulated hands for a new armature. If I'm being entirely honest, I'll probably end up using wire,...

Jan 4, 2018

Iron Maiden

I made an Iron Maiden for my new short film. I'm actually done with the whole thing. I sent it to my friend who does sound design. It ...

Jul 24, 2017

I Made Some Appliances

Hiya, pals! I'm back to share some more fabrication-y things from my long-in-gestation short film! When last we talked I showed a glimp...

Sep 16, 2016

Just A Little Something

When I wrote my last post, I had spent some time working on a from-scratch ball-and-socket armature. Surprisingly (for me), I had actual...

Jun 25, 2015

Hermes

During the summer of 2014, I was a fabrication intern at Hornet in New York City. As an intern, I filled many different roles across sev...

May 9, 2015

Bar

I'm not very good at naming things. My senior film Bar is, so far in my short career and relatively short life, my largest and most repre...

May 7, 2015

Space Guy

In my junior year at SCAD, I worked on a collaborative fabrication project called Space Guy. Due to sudden personnel changes over the co...

May 4, 2015

Welcome!

In an effort to provide further context to my work, I intend to convert what were essentially slideshows into blog posts that detail each...

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