Birth of a Puppet

An exoskeleton, heads baking in the oven, and the always popular under-the-skirt shot.
I've been considering doing my personal film next year in stop motion, so no time like the present to start messing around with building puppets! I figure getting started with that now will give me a rough idea of how improbable an idea this is for me. So, I'm giving birth! It's almost like I'm a woman or something.

Make the people laugh

Yet another one of these walk things.
Just think! Next week I'll have honest to goodness real 2D animation to show off.

Baby Steps

I'm a touch embarrassed to say it's my first ever puppet walk. I did play around with a bit of a step last week and also a bit of a clay... thing. It can only get better from here?

More Puppet Work

Another timed test, following general parameters for action and movement.


We were instructed to do a simple MS arm wave to study successive breaking of joints in detail. This was my second attempt at the exercise. I followed it up with a more complex variation of the blahblah more stuffy language. If you watch it you will see!

Stop Motion Exercises

A timing test, following a specific path and other restrictions set by the instructor.


Learning how include bent legs in puppet animation and all that that implies.