Animating food or organic stuff is hard, sometimes is insane to keep all in place or replace without letting audience know, but this is the stop motion magic and my job.
Best materials, tips and tricks for stop motion animation filmmakers. I use this techniques everyday.
Isle of Dogs key animator reveals some of most used tricks to move accurately a stop motion puppet in a set using a Dob Stick or spike.
Making moulds for a stop motion puppets hands and boots. Time consuming and lovely process at same time.
You could imagine I don't make to much wire armatures as I always show my ball and socket making... but, trust me, most of our stop motion shorts and commercials use to have simple armatures as they are quick to make and work perfect. Yes they are something you must know how to make if you want to make a stop motion movie so I want to share with you the way I make them.
All the features and behind a stop motion puppet and how we made it. Hollow head, moving eyes, hair, eyebrows, eyelids, replacement mouths, etc. Puppets must perform a wide range of movements and emotions, so at the end it is a piece of technology, craft and art to enable animators make them alive.
Animation is all about Timing and Spacing. It will tell us what is doing our puppet on screen and how to analyse if we are doing a good job. This video covers TIMING & SPACING, and how to set a cheap studio set to make little animations at home with standard domestic items. Also I share some tricks I used during the animation of this video.
Resume of the 12 principles of animation made by Disney animators Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston in the book The Illusion of Life adapted to stopmotion animation technique, and showing examples made by Citoplasmas studio.
Achieving more precision when animating in stop motion is not only practice but using some techniques and being super focused when you are in the set moving your puppet. Knowing where is the center of mass, resting your hand, using tools like the Mahl stick or pushing always specific spots on you puppet could help your animation be smoother.
Frames are the unit of Stopmotion animation. This is the first video of a serie about Stop motion animation basics. I will try to make an introduction to learn specific things, that I don't see online. Could be less fun, but more informative... let's see. This one covers FRAMERATE ( FPS ), and how to set Dragonframe to animate in ONES, TWOS, THREES, FOURS