The Evolution of X

Building X has been an arduous labor of love. Hours upon hours and dollars upon dollars have been spent on the main character for this little short. I'm at about a midpoint with X currently, I have his basic skeleton done, but it still need some more tuned work on all his moving parts, puppetry, and all of his detail work done. Here are a few pictures when I was first gathering materials a few weeks back:






I then found this amazing trash bin at a Goodwill. It was the bottom half of a shredder, and it had this great "Iron Man" type of window which would work great as the chest piece. I then got these two matching desk lamps at Wal-Mart. The lamp heads fit snug into the crevices at the top edge of the bin, which worked perfectly as his arms.





And here is X as it looks currently, his full body is intact, and I can't wait for him to continue to develop into the star of this film: