Channel: Jim McKenzie

Category: Film & Animation

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Description: FAQ I’ve gotten a lot of questions regarding how this piece was made so I put together a quick making-of video to address them: 1. What kind of clay did you use for this character? This little guy was made from a block of $2.00 plasticine clay I found in the kid section at Michael’s. 2. What app program do you use to animate stop motion? For this particular piece I used Dragonframe, which is the standard for animating in stop motion. 3. Do you use reference videos for your animation? Yes! The cool part about Dragonframe is that you can animate over reference videos frame by frame. I shot a ridiculous clip of myself pretending to be a happy squid monster that I used as reference. 4. How do you get the logo to reveal? I started off with a sculpture of the logo and animated it backwards so that it slowly turned into a splash puddle. Then when I was animating the character splashing, I made sure his splash lined up with the logo splash and seemed them together. 5. What kind of Camera do you use? I’m using a Cannon 5D mark 3 for this. 6. How did you create the jump? Normally I would attach the character to a linear winder armature support which is essentially a small pole that supports your character. I didn’t have one at the moment so I used a small wire and my hand to lift it into the air. I then took my footage into After Effects and removed the wire and hand frame by frame, using a clean plate that was shot beforehand. 7. How do you make Sound Effects? All of the sound effects are just me making squish sounds with my mouth. I did a few gasps for the main character and just pitched it up a bit to give him a more cartoonish sound. Hope that helps you guys! -Jim #Sculpture #Stopmotion #animation #stopmotionanimation #clay #jimmckenzie #plasticine #makingof #process #film #logodesign #logo #howto #dragonframe #character #characterdesign #puppet #stopmotionpuppet