Designing the Stop-Motion Sets of Aardman Animation's Early Man! 

Artwork themselves.

Was he initially trained as an architect?

Yes!

I’m actually surprised they do it by hand and don’t use CAD!

I found that even with years of daily CAD use I can do design work more easily on paper or a whiteboard, then I use cad finalize designs and make sure different parts fit together as expected. But i would certainly distribute designs to the model makers with CAD.

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You can download a free app on your phone called Stop motion and animate from there.You take something to animate and move the character a bit take a pic and repate the process.Than you go in to a movie editor if you have one and edit the movie until you have the final film.Maybe ask a friend of yours for help.

ey Laika stuff is really cool

Oh that's so cool, I love Frankenweenie 😄

Cool! Loved the movie. Were you a set designer too?

It was one of the highlights of my career so far to have been a part of it :)

It was right at the start of my career. I helped on sets for a couple of days to gain experience... but I was mainly in the puppet hospital and the test animation bay where I made character blinks and tested that they animated properly on the characters :)

Matt trained as an architect

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I too was disappointed in the story...And the football...But, I had to appreciate the artwork and the great animation work. After accepting that it wasn't a movie for me, I spent my time paying attention to the animation and the artwork. I don't know about you, but the character of the queen was a real issue for me; she just didn't make sense. When we're first aware of the queen she's sending angry pigeon-messages to Nooth, saying how he'd be the fall of their great empire should they lose the game against the stone-age men, the pigeon even assaults Nooth so I had assumed she'd be an aggressive character. As the game commences she's still aggressive to Nooth, getting more and more angry as the Bronze start to lose to the stone. The whole reasons for Nooth putting in so much effort to cheat the game and win the match was for the queen, and so that their mighty empire wouldn't fall - and yet suddenly at the end of the film she ousts Nooth and kindly rewards the stone-age people with such grace as if she's this well balanced and lovely character. It just didn't play right. You'd have thought she'd have wanted Nooth to cheat, that at whatever cost she'd want the Bronze to win the match - That's her whole reason for being there, that's her whole reason for attacking Nooth in her pigeon messages, and yet she completely changes suddenly.

Lol so do I

Nailsea Phil cool!

In the film there's a nod to the new wembley arch too!

Because that wouldn't be stop motion? Why not just make a digital model

yep!