Stop motion puppet armature building process 

"man, $150 IS A LOT for an armature" ** Watches Video ** "huh, $150 seems pretty cheap for an armature"

My friend, your work is amazing. Such care and devotion to the most minute scale, BRAVO!! Your talent for both designing, creating, assembling, and animating is an asset to the stop motion animation community

He looks very tired but also he keep smiling,,,,

Considering the time designing and making the armature . . . minimum $2500. Now let’s add your skills and experience . . . Priceless! 🙀👏👍👍👍👍

loving this! In my country it will cost you less than $40 but I think its totally worth it. This guy is amazing. It really makes you realize how delicate and well planned a stop-motion is. Many people do not understand the animation industry and think that it is child's play. In a way it is, just with many technicalities involved. I am studying this, just on a much broader level. We need to conceptualize and realize everything as animators and with this I mean the narrative, the designs, the materialization of the designs as well as being active in the production as directors and animators straight through to post where we dictate and direct the post components within very short periods of time, such as 3 weeks for a 10 minute production (Production and post-production included) . Coming back to this video, it really gives insight into the international standard of production and I absolutely adore it. Thank you Edu for sharing your trade! Much appreciated.

this video is so fun to watch. i love all the tools and skills needed to build the puppets and watching the entire process. then seeing it animated makes all the time and hard work even more enjoyable

I watched the video and I don't have any tools.

Mr Puertas you are an amazing dude!!!! 🤓

I end up seeing this video again n again. It's a great pleasure watching it. Such a beauty in making.

That's some beautiful work. Amazing, even with the machine shop, you still have a lot of hand work involved. Thank you for sharing the process! As others have posted, the price seems like a lot, until you realize how much work it takes. Wish you much success!

Edu, that was awesome!

I enjoy your videos very much. Your personality shines.

Wow, you must be so proud of all this puppets, they are amazing, good work !

awesome job man! It makes me love "stop motion animation" much more than before!!

I really enjoyed watching this. Thank you!

Awesome! And it was super great meeting you in Annecy!

Sei FANTASTICO !!! many thanks for your video ... you are a good genius

Wow that's amazing, man

beautiful work

That's so good job you did

Thanks for your help!!

You really deserve more views man.

Not Fair,,, you got all the tools, and machines,,, awesome work!!

I love it man))) you and your hobby is so nice... wish you good luck))

Nice video

That's a lot of machining, Nice work

El mejor video que he visto!

Well done sir.

Nice work man!

wow this is so cool

For the spine, it'd be interesting if it was made similarly to how a Bicycle chain is made. Only that a bike chain can only move two directions. So instead of a rod joining each part of the chain, if it was a washer (ball) then you'd be able to get tons of motion out of the spine.

You are very talented person. I will order one of your armature soon :)

great job !

So dang cool. Thanks for upload

Wonderful!

Tuz videos son muy útiles para las personas a las que nos gusta hacer Stop Motion 📸

excellent really excellent

Thank you!!!!

I love you, Edu :)

You are an amazing talent. Wonderful work! Thanks for sharing.

Very good job i know how its hard to create in real life and animate frames per frames. I don't know why there are 10 dislikes "At this moment" i liked. You just need to be more popular to get more likes. You anwser, you show, you replay, you teach, you create. When i looked at the comments of this video, there are only respectful and good messages. Continue, and you will get more suscribers. Im rooting for you ! And i subscribe. I hope that you enjoyed that comment.

fantanstic! why do you heat and drop the metal pieces into oil? (newbe question :D)

great videos!!

How much do you charge per armature for a humanoid build with all the standard articulation points? Also, do you only accept orders for multiple builds to make it worth your time? Or can individuals commission one-offs from you? Thanks!

Thanks

good work

Beautiful thanks!

Mucho trabajo!!!!

Impresionante!!! personalmente siempre me dieron ganas de crear una animación en stopmotion para agregarla a mi portafolio de trabajos, ver todo tu procedimiento me pareció increíble y bello, aunque también me dio un poco de miedo todas las herramientas que usas xD por ahora creo que me iré por lo básico, alambres con palitos y unicel :'v gracias por compartir este video, va a favoritos!

Do you have any tips for getting the leg and arm pieces to hold on the ball joints without unscrewing? Thanks!

Hi there.... Love your videos and all the content you release...... Big fan of what you show here... But curious.... What screws and nuts do you use to clamp each ball joint piece together (the brass parts that are compressed together to put pressure on ball joints). Or do you tap and die them? Or maybe.... Something else entirely. Thanks so much and I'm always looking forward to your next video!

+ edu puertas_ Ok, that's right !!Now i need how you'll build the next biggest armature for showing us in other videos

Yo tambien hago stop motion,buen videos

This is amazing!!! I'm getting into stop animation and i need to buy one of these from you!!! when will they be in stalk again?

I really admire your work as well as the dedication involved and I probably will be purchasing one. I prefer these armatures to wire ones because you can reuse them again without wire fatigue. How long would it take you to construct a 1:12 scale(6 inches) armature from start to finish?

What kind of metal alloy should I use for the joints?

Gracias por hacer videos de stop motion, eres genial.

wow, it's alive!!... How many frames did you take?

Hi Edu , can you tell me please what is the common size of square tube is used on armature puppets and what size you using for yours for hands , for head ? Thanks

cool

How do you make / get the parts for the hinged feet?

all very well, but what if you do not have access or the skill to use a lathe?

"Gaaaaaa!" ~woosh!~ Love these puppet armatures :D I'm always reminded of Steve French's "Woody". Check out Clickspring if you want a beautiful blue on those parts prior to oil quenching :) He makes a Bluing tray, filled with brass shavings for even heat dissipation.

Here I was wondering, "Where do they buy the pieces to build those armatures? Maybe a hobby lobby? Maybe a Home depot?" NOPE. Each of those pieces is painstakingly made by a guy like this who has all the equipment. Now I need to bulk up on my heavy duty machinery. lol. I'm, like, "I got a dremel kit! That's a start!" lol

Hi edu! I Wonder why your armetures don’t have fingers?

Thanks for sharing your process, it's being very useful! I have one question tho, when you are doing the joints, you al ready have the rectangles cut and then you do the holes? Or yo do the holes and then cut the metal plate? Also whats that material? Thanks a lot, you are a real pro!

Great video Edu :). I have a question for you. What kind/brand of oil do you use when heating/strengthening the machined parts? Thanks in advance.

What a great job!!so..are u selling those armatures?price?

Wow this is great, and I love all your videos, thanks! I still feel stuck, right now. maybe I’ll wait until I have better tools. I only have hand tools, and drills. I got through making balls, limbs cutting thread, almost there. But I can’t find brass or copper strips thick enough anywhere. The “K&S metals” here apparently don’t ever carry the thick stuff at hobby shops and I can’t actually tell what minimum thickness should be to look it up with online. Everything I’ve used bends with tightening.. any suggestions of the actual thickness the ball joint metal should be or a source for it? I don’t have a good enough metal shop to just cut up bigger slabs. God, it’s slow going without a proper lathe or drill press too, but rewarding if you can’t order $400 ones (before shipping) that only seem to be sold in Europe.

Im que piensa de comenzar a hacer animaciones del movimiento de la parada y usted es una ayuda masiva. ¡Gracias hombre!

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Amazing :D

Just came across your channel today and you have a new fan! I studied stop motion back in college a bit and was always interested in creating armatures like this. I'm doing research into different tools that would be handy to have...what is the name of the tool that you're using at 4:55 of the video to shape your pieces? Truly inspiring work that is reigniting my desire to pursue this interest of mine! Thank you so much for being out there!

aluminum or steel?

Gran trabajo, una pregunta: el buril que utilizas en el torno ya tiene la forma y el tamaño de la bola? ; asi lo compras o tu lo haces?. Saludos desde México

Is that a custom carbide bit you use for making the balls on the rod?

can u make the armature from wood

Nice job, why do you have all this machines? Was weren't they very expensive?

very nice :) please tell me ?! how did you remove rigg in your video when background moving ??? I hope you understand me ;) I really need answer

Me encanta lo que haces. Es una pasada. pero por que no hablas en español? tengo un nivel aceptable de inglés y te entiendo pero no hay nadie que haga este tipo de tu tutoriales o procesos de creación en nuestro idioma. Es una simple sugerencia. un cordial saludo y sigue con la magia ;)

I want to do it but I do not have the matirials and the machines 😭😭

A cuanto venderias esto.?

De que material son las bisagras y q es el spray o liquido q usas antes de cortar. Saludos desde Machu Picchu - Perú

HI, do You still build armatures on order?

hooogo tequedo chingon

prquen lo calienta la estructura esqueletica

que tal pana me gustaria obtener una armaura, como podemos hacer para que me envies uno

Would you consider trading armature work for custom dioramas?

*Me:* foolish man, he has show me his secrets. Now I will make the puppet myself!!! *Me 9 minutes and 43 seconds later:* .......................I'm gonna have to pay him to do this for me, amn't I?

Hello I would like to get a slicon hands for a character I made. like Kubo hands and in their size would you like to work with me in this case. i need theme to start my short movie in morocco i didn t found how to do them ther is no latex or silicon . would you like to contacte me pleaze/

Also if you’re looking for video subjects I would give you my leg for a video about tie-downs generally. Every animation related tutorial glosses over it so it’s baffling once you get to shooting. How to hide the holes? Only shoot in profile? What about frames where no feet are flat? Are there ways without tie downs or is that stupid? Everyones’ animation tutorial ends with “so that’s how you put holes in the feet!... now here’s a finished animation of walking...”. Whaaaatt!! Wait! Go back! Why not show me how to actually shoot with tie downs? I’m not finding it that easy to hide. Can’t find any resources for that, about jumping, types of tie downs, etc. pleeeease more! Thanks for all you do already, though.

where is your e-mail to send you a couple of design to make an armature. I'm interested in buying about 4, 3 people and 1 quadruped

If I bought one from you, how much would it be? O.o

nice video !, existen versiones mas simpler ???

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Thank you for showing us the process. But please, don't wear gloves around rotating machines. If anything catches it will pull your entire hand in. Seriously. I know the oil is icky, but it's not worth it.

Damn no ordinary person has this equipment😦😵‍💫 No use to me, sad😪

basically step 1: get a full metal workshop to tailor custom pieces..