TOOLS AND ANIMATION

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 Some useful tools for stop motion. 

Polymer clay. 



Silicone putty for moulds



Sculpting tools. 


Oven for polymer clay. 


Aluminium foil is a hundred times cheaper than clay so use it as a filler. It is still much stronger than plastic mould injection. I have hit this piece with a hammer many times.

 
Random number generators.


Get 2D slices with a laser level and measure distance to camera with laser range finder.
 

STOP MOTION



Learn from the masters Ray Harryhausen and Phil Tippett. 

 
Youtube has a plethora of stop motion videos. I am going to mention five videos that inspire me.

Transformers:RotF Forest Battle by CredFilms. 
( Has an incredible dynamic camera.) 

Action Man stop motion movie by FcoJavierFerra. 
( Realistic human movement.) 

Stop motion tanjiro giyu vs akaza by KokezoTV. 
( WOW! Just WOW! ) 

Stop motion chainsaw man vs bat by KokezoTV. 
(This is their best one.)

Stop motion A series of moving Dragon Ball figures by Animist. 
(Best stop motion I have seen. ) 


ANIMATION


For those interested in animation I can recommend all Studio Ghibli films. Obviously Akira and Megazone 23, Memories:Stink Bomb, Short Peace:Farewell to Weapons, and the Gundam series. Do You Remember Love? is a must see. I am also going to mention Robotech:Macross as Carl Macek's prodution; Naration, music, story and editing is a good lesson for aspiring producers. 





Quick animation test made on mobile phone. It is an experiment that uses two frames of animations and two rotations to give the appearence of four frames of animation. 



An alternative animation technique is ROTOSCOPING. A good example is EXORDIUM by Morgan King on YouTube. Extremely impressive.
Then there is "Guided Rotoscope", this technique uses video like rotoscoping but an artist draws his characters over say a skeleton so there is no "wavy effect" that AI generated rotoscoping has. Examples are Cowboy Bebop, The God of High School, and Attack on Titan. 

I will be using an Ennascope with models to create 3D Rotoscoping. 



A bit rusty. 




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