I think these can be perfectly applied to more complex puppets. Especially the one about trying to push always in the same spot. When I'm animating a clothed character, I try to always apply pressure in the same spots to avoid clothes from boiling. Also, I try to manipulate them from the back, the part that is hidden to the camera. That usually helps a lot too. To animate the limbs, I find myself pushing the elbow to move the arm, and pushing the wrist to move the forearm. I rarely grab the arm from any other point, as that would deform the clothes.
@@edupuertasfruns Yes! Usually the bigger parts are the more difficult, like torso and hips. That's why I fell in love with a simple little tool at Laika that I use all the time; the "T-bar". It's a t-shaped square bar that goes in the torso or hips rig points, and allows you to precisely move those parts without touching the puppet at all. It also gives you more leverage. Then you just remove it and take the frame. Wonderful!
Both of you are super professionals. Please make us a video specifically on how to move an armature/puppet during a complex movement. I am just a beginner who is going to make my puppet do yoga which is really complex. Help me out!
Hi guys, im new in stop motion and i love what im doing. Pls check out some of my videos. Hehhehe. Guys if you have some spare armature , rig or any stop motion equipment you can just donate it to me and i would be really happy. Thanks guys and have fun
This is a super helpful video! I will definitely remember to stabilize my hand while animating. It looks like it makes a huge difference.Actually all these tips look like they would help me improve 10 fold. Thanks so much!
¡Genial! ¡Muchísimas gracias por los tips Edu! (En realidad vi este video hace tiempo pero faltaba el comentario) Algunas de las técnicas yo ya las practicaba instintivamente, pero encontré nuevas que me encantaron.
thanks, I didn't thought on the importance of it till I started applying force in a consistent way across all the scene in specific points. It helps reducing non desired shiftings on the puppet
It's defi. going to help me animate my project, and I would like to thank you for giving me great tips through your video, I would like to show my stop motion work as I finish it, I surely got some tips that helped me genuinely and is going to help me later on too.🙏🙏🙏
truly this good man is appreciated for his effort and dedication to show us excellent content and his profession in which he works seems very interesting to me and shows us how he is doing his best to get ahead and leave a trace in the history of cinematography keep it up my friend you will make it :)
Just use a colored ruler that already has the markers placed, clamp/tape the ruler down, slide the block/figure every MM or CM along the edges of the ruler to keep it in line and each move even in space and then color key the ruler out with Davinci Resolve (FREE).
Hola; gracias; aunque todos esos puntos los tengo asimilados de antes por otras cosas; pero si lo que me resulta imposible casi, ,es como lograr hacer que un muñeco que sea por ejemplo carpintero, lograr que salga polvo, viruta etc de la herramienta "eléctrica" que estuviera trabajando. Quizás puedas hacer un video con posibles efectos pero no de software. Gracias
Thanks this really helped me because i started making these kind of videos(stop motion vids) But how many frames i can use to have more smoother animation
Resting my hand never really thought of I mean making stop motion animation is made by using your hand I’m going to try that the next time I make an animation
Hi, please can someone help me. I was going to do a Lego brick film tomorrow and I was wondering how I would do it, for example what effects etc etc: however I quickly tested out my Lego starwars obi-wan kenobi out with my green screen and I noticed my blue light saber bit (the actual saber piece) what’s somehow working on the green screen, and I don’t want that to happen. So if anyone could be so kind and please tell me how to animate my Lego light saber (blue) piece with a green screen without it like being a kind of “green screen” if you know what I mean. That would be Mitch appreciated. Thanks 🙏 thank you
Hi Edu, I have a question about working with dragon frame: after I masked out all of the frames where there is some type of support for example to hold up a puppet in the air. I exchange the masked out frames with the frames where the support is still visible (I use GIMP). After I did that my stop motion is finished. When I then play the full masked out animation in dragon frame everything is fine, that means that every support that I masked out is gone, what's great, but then when I export the animation, and I look at the end result, the support is still there... So what I mean is that in Dragon frame I can see the animation without the support so with every frame masked out. Off dragon frame, so when I look at it as an exported video the support is still there... Can you please help me with this problem because I have been trying to fix this for months... I would be so great full if you could help me! Kind regards Wars4Bricks. PS: sorry for the broken English, I'm from Belgium.
Hi, dragonframe is not meant to do that. The masks you are doing are purely for reference purpose during animation. You have to do that in after effects
Hi, my name is Abbas, I love your designs, but I want to do a moving animation of clay, but I don't have the things that pertain to the doll's structure. Please read my comment
He makes his own :) kineticarmatures.com/ as for other things, I think if you watch his other vids he's extremly practical and mostly uses what he has lying around or makes it on his own. Just start low budget with whatever you have or search on ebay or etsy for some cheap parts and your local craft store. Good luck!
