r/stopmotion

Stop motion started out as my pandemic hobby though I never really quite. While I try to have it to be somewhat realistic I also have some fictional elements in it like street cars on dirt.

very fun to animate the smoke!

Chispamigos (En inglés, Sparkfriends) está iniciando sus primeros fotogramas de producción que formarán parte de un cortometraje, se espera que para fines de año se estrene en YouTube gratis.

I joined reddit today for the first time. I've been working on this stop motion for months! I hope you all enjoyed. Ifff you did please subscribe!

Hello there! Last week I posted about my short film and received some lovely reactions. Thank you for that ❤️

I thought it could be interesting to share a little bit of the making-of process for the puppets.

When designing the look of the film, I knew I wanted the characters to have very expressive silhouettes. The puppets are all made from wood, which obviously isn’t very flexible! So instead of making each character as one solid puppet, I created a set of replaceable body parts that could be swapped out while animating. This gives the animation a nice, snappy look!

The pieces are connected with wire, which can be bent and animated to add anticipation and extra movement. The combs, beaks and tails are also replaceable. These parts are a little less complex, so I could create more variations of them, allowing for a smoother and more expressive animation.

Let me know if you’d like to see more of the making-of process of this film 👀

My first ever stop motion, as a gif. Made for my boyfriend as a gift for our anniversary! I feel like I learned so much, and can't wait to work on another/longer project. This took me 17 hours total (creating the puppet, set, shooting and minimal editing).

I had so much fun with this and really loved the process. Would be so fun to offer something like this (gif-length project) as commissionable for folks to use for marketing or to see their OC or something etc if I ever got to a more refined point with practice. What a dream that would be!!

I really want to experiment with a different medium for the puppet next time. This one was made from Plastalina. What's your favorite way to make puppets??

Thanks for looking!!

finalized the first version. a bit rough and its a minute long but I'm pretty satisfied with it. enjoy!

First time attempting to do stop motion...

Here is a short cut from where I tried transforming the kozmonavt from "liquid" back into character. The sound is obviously not there yet, but enough to give you the vibe.