Tuesday 27 September 2011

Are We Nearly There Yet?

Here is the finished knitted aquarium, ready to be used in the animated film.  I had a terrible time trying to photograph it...indoors...
...outdoors......with flash......
...and without flash....
Anyway, I hope you can get the general idea of it from these pictures.  It is quite cunning within - under the (hinged) lid, there are three horizontal wires strung between the struts.  From these wires, the fish can be hung and will move from left to right.
Each fish has had a fine piece of wire inserted through their mouth right the whole length of their body and secured with a 'barb' at the end.  From the mouth come 'bubbles' which are beads threaded down the wire.  Each wire has enough leeway to be bent or straightened, thus making the fish go up or down, and at the top of the wire is a little hook so the fish can be facing either way depending on how hung. 
Someone suggested adding a little light...which if I had access to one of those tiny LED's found in Christmas novelties I might well have done, but on the other hand, I am not sure the animator would have approved!

Now people, any ideas on how to knit a 3 inch high working cuckoo clock?

3 comments:

Sue Doran said...

It looks superb! After the aquarium, I'm sure the cuckoo clock will be done in no time ... (groan! did you see what I did there ...do they want a joke writer for the film ... probably not what I'm best at!) :-)

Magpie Magic said...

LOL It looks fab! Can't wait to see the next one... however, a cuckoo clock should be easy after this... :-) xoxo

WendyCarole said...

It looks great