Tested Builds: Stop-Motion Animation, Part 1
Time for a new week of building! We’re joined by special guests Frank Ippolito and Sean Charlesworth to experiment with stop-motion animation. Both Frank and Sean have experience working with stop-motion, and we try our hand at making a short animation with posable sixth-scale figures! Follow along with us by joining the Tested Premium Member Community!
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You guys are going to be the financial ruin of me. I was already looking up how much Dragonframe and that camera would cost. Great segment!
Sorry Sean, but Frank wins this t-shirt battle. Big Trouble in Little China trumps everything.
Sean, do you think you could have a go at 3D printing a set of faces and animating?
I was just about to mention using the Power Glove for animating Robot Chicken. That is so awesome he’s your buddy.
This brings me back to the Lego and claymation animations I used to make as a kid. Used a tool called MonkeyJam – looks like its still available. It was pretty basic compared to the likes of Dragonframe, but free and easy to use. Might be a good starting point for a beginner.
One of the things I learned from watching the “How it’s done” videos on the Looney Tunes videos is that the LT cartoons seldom had more than one character on-screen at once! There might be an establishing shot with 2 (seldom more) characters, but then it was medium/close-ups that only had one character to animate. One exception was the Duck-Rabbit-Duck trilogy, where you had Elmer-Daffy-Bugs on-screen and interacting.
Seems that you need to do the same kind of planning for stop-motion as well.
–Paul E Musselman