Music ready just the rest to do!

Started by Keith Adams in SOUND. Last reply by Simple Jack 9 hours ago. 4 Replies 0 Likes

This is the music for a new animation, 'scrubbed' through to get the relevant points sorted for a dance piece featuring the duck puppet. Animatic made to ensure it all works, just the animation to go then....don't hold your breath!http://youtu.be/ixPjzHt9bUUContinue

Multiplayer – 3D Ios Mobile Game Development

Started by GameYan Studio in ANIMATION TOOLS & EQUIPMENT. Last reply by Lerod Manji 11 hours ago. 3 Replies 0 Likes

This is Fighting 3D Multiplayer Game developed for iOS platform. All 3D Art Work, Animation – Motion Capture developed by GameYan – Game Development Company.Continue

Tags: Animation, Cartoon, Design, Rigging, Modeling

Bearings for moco camera head

Started by Tatu P in ANIMATION TOOLS & EQUIPMENT. Last reply by Richard Pender-Brookes 14 hours ago. 29 Replies 0 Likes

Hello wise board of SMA! I am planing to make simple moco unit with Arduino system. I got great help from previous post about the subject and from Simon Tytherleighs comments.Things have developped plesant ways since last time I looked to this subject. Seems that it is possible to do system with ~400€! One thing what puzzles me is bearings of pan and tilt head. I am planning to make U shaped one. Have you used some axial ball bearing for Pan? Maybe something like this:https://www.vxb.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=Kit7852Or do you have it without any bearings, just wax or something?How about Tilt?Thank you,-TatuContinue

[PODCAST] The story of how George Pal pumped out 1,000s of hand-carved wooden replacement puppets - some of the first stop mo commercial and narrative productions in the days of Disney & Fleisher.

Started by Mozen in CHAT BOARD yesterday. 0 Replies 0 Likes

Here's a great in-depth interview with Producer Arnold Leibovit on the history of George Pal and how he created a niche for Puppetoons in the days of Disney vs Fleischer.https://soundcloud.com/animation-podcast/episode-83-producer-arnie-leibovit-the-history-of-george-pals-puppetoons-puppetoon-movie-v2Continue

Canon eos R or RP?

Started by Tatu P in CAMERA & STAGE yesterday. 0 Replies 0 Likes

I am planing to bye new camera, and it seems that Canon EOS R or RP is way to go. Has enyone some experiences about those?Stopmotion Firmware is something that seems to be great for Dragon. But does it maes up the video shooting options? "The shooting screen cannot be displayed with resolution of 1920 x 1280 pixels and MF peaking will not show up even if [MF peaking settings] is set to [On] under the following conditions"Video options would be great for some video projects. For video R would be great, but with Stopmotion firmware HDMI out is disabled, and you can't use better video quality (10bit). So it seems that there isn't any reason to by R, and RP is way to go. (?)Does anyone have some experience about Canon eos R/RP?-TatuContinue

Tags: R, eos, Canon

Small puppet tips?

Started by Mark Francombe in GENERAL PUPPET MAKING. Last reply by StopmoNick yesterday. 4 Replies 0 Likes

Hi, I´m planning a film now that requires me to use VERY SMALL characters. The set/location is fixed and a character would need to be no higher than 8cm in height...  Therefore I'm not expecting super quality movement (No articulated finger joint LOL) And at this stage I can design characters around the best techniques. I was wondering what tips you guys can offer me? Things I am thinking about.Any pre-made kids toys can be stripped with some articulation possibilities?I have a plan to coat all walkable surfaces with metal (not sure what- suggestions - any magnetic paints?) and place 1mm magnets in feet. Good or bad idea?Cloth or not? Was thinking of pseudo japanese long kimono type clothing (Its sci fi can look like anything I want) to hide legs, but as small magnification wont almost all cloth appear stiff and unyielding. Better to paint latex?Heads, I will want simple "open and shut" mouths for speech (no phonemes) so 2 (maybe 3) replaceable heads. Again thinking a magnet, but will I be able to rotate 2 magnets against each other? (this I can test myself)o r is there a better way for head rotation/replacement at this scale.I realise the best advice might be "don't do it" but I'm dealing with a particular scale here, I'll reveal when Im more underway. Thanks in advance!Continue

Animation Plugin For Websites

Started by alanmathewdev in STOPMO NEWBIES. Last reply by StopmoNick on Wednesday. 1 Reply 0 Likes

Looking for popular, free, and userfriendly animation plugins for my WordPress website. Something like a builder animation plugin. Moreover, looking for a WordPress maintenance service provider to set up these plugins on my website without crashing anything.Continue

Tags: Plugin, Animation

Looking for an On-line Stop Motion Animation Course

Started by DoubleG in STOPMO NEWBIES. Last reply by James Krysa on Sunday. 4 Replies 0 Likes

Hello there,I found a lot of normal animation courses (3D) and so on on Aniamtion Mentor and Academy of art.After a lot of browsing I only found only one stop motion course at Animation ATeam.Does anyone know of any more on-line stopmotion courses?CheersGerardContinue

What's a good editing software that's free and worthy of trying?

Started by Oscar Weiner in ANIMATION TOOLS & EQUIPMENT. Last reply by StopmoNick on Sunday. 9 Replies 0 Likes

I really need a good editing software that is free and is good for making stop motion filmsContinue

Using Plastiline for a puppet ?

Started by Lutchia in STOPMO NEWBIES. Last reply by Lutchia Sep 12. 3 Replies 0 Likes

Hello,Lately I've been experiencing making a stop motion puppet for the first time !I only have to animate the arms and head of my puppet.As a first step, I made an aluminium wire and epoxy putty armature that seems okay.I was trying to get a very detailed appearence to the hands and the face of my character, so I chose sculpt them in plastiline. I chose ivory plastiline from Herbin, with a medium hardness:https://www.amazon.fr/Plastiline-duret%C3%A9-55-coloris-ivoire/dp/B004HE5P82/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_fr_FR=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&dchild=1&keywords=plastiline+ivoire+55&qid=1599837689&quartzVehicle=24-349&replacementKeywords=plastiline+ivoire&sr=8-1I thought of covering my armature with this clay too, as I've read in other forums that it was a good choice for a stop motion puppet because it woudn't dry or crack as other clays. Moreover my character has to be partially naked and I thought the plastiline's texture was nice to imitate skin.I colored my clay with a red pigment to get a pale flesh tone, and this step went fine too.Although when my I started putting clay on the armature and began moving the arm, the clay immediately cracked on the articulation. It clearly seems to come from the hardness of the clay that looks way too hard for me, but I've read that you should use hard plastiline when doing an animation puppet.I could re-heat my plastiline with a hair-dryer every time I have to move my character so this way it wouldn't crack, but I feel like this would be a loss of time...I also thought of softening my plastiline by adding some oil of vaseline to it, but I'm afraid it will be too soft to sculpt small details.I probably made some begginer's…Continue