Monday, 21 May 2018

3D Stop Motion Puppet

You make the wire armature out of various pieces of sharp, pointy metal and you twist them
together in the rough form of your puppet.
You then put Milliput on the joints so that they don’t move and they are locked in place; you do this for the shoulders and the hips. Then you get foam and you glue the foam where there would be a part of the body that would not necessarily move, your joints move but your bones don’t: rib cage, thighs, lower leg, head, upper arm and lower arm.
Then you wrap the entire thing in wadding and bandages so it looks a bit like a mummy, then you put the Plasticine on top.



However upon further research, there appears to be multiple ways of doing this that
don't require the use of foam, bandages and wadding. There are people who use a dowel and they will tape it to the leg and where the joint is. They will break it so the joint is flexible but you cannot move the leg part.There is a way of making them in America that uses a material called ProPoxy all over and they don’t use foam. You can also use silicone, which is used in Ardman animations.
Once you have created your masterpiece, you then need to bolt it down to the floor so that when you
do the walk cycle it looks like a walk cycle instead of her shuffling across the floor. You bolt it down so that the planted foot does not move while the opposite foot in motion can move.

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