Stop-motion: examples of the animation

Here are the original puppets/models used for the Stop-Motion Animation of OOD for my Foundation Diploma. Each was fabricated out of plasticine.

• For the first part of the construction, Gardening wire was used the make the skeleton of the body.



• Plasticine was added next to form muscle areas, less for skinny areas while more plasticine was added for bolder or thicker areas of the puppet.



• More plasticine was added such as balance and details: eyes, fingers and mouth.



• I had the initial idea to paint over the skin with acrylic paint only to realize later that it cased the plasticine to crack.



• Clothing was added last.

The Villains:

Here we have the two Hexoright, minions of HEX and represent the greed and corruption of human society. They are portrayed in this thin, dark form to resemble cunning and devious villains. The long arms and fingers prompted up together while the main body is almost "hunch" looking. Their skin is usually a yellowish green. For this animation, according to my story board, I had intended to have more than two of these puppets I ran out of time due to the sudden change in the date of when we had to hand in our Final Major Project. Nevertheless, the two puppets were worth the 3 to 4 minutes of my ever first animation.

Hex is the main director or "boss" of his enterprise; Hex Industreis. He is a ruthless businessmen who takes pleasure in the harsh conditions of others. He is usually a calm character not a cold, brutal sort. made him a slight bit bigger but the Hexoright have the exact height. The only difficulty was straightening the legs. If i had the proper equipment, such as a stronger wire, my models would stop falling over. It was difficult to get them to stand up so I placed the black, hooded clothing on them to cover their legs, also to give a secretive atmosphere to the scene they would play in. The Hexoright are in a scene in which it is held secretly and only the high ranking employers may attend. I portray them as nasty but not brutal and tough for those skinny arms would not win a fight therefore they would rely on others to do the "dirty work".

The Hero:

OOd is the hero of my story. He is personified as small and cute with no vi sable "villain" parts on him. He is a "C" shaped body with his arms at the back of his body and four large eyes. He does not look menacing and is the main character of the story board and as well as my future projects of "Arta".

I used gardening wire for his armature and wrapped it with tin foil. The plasticine came afterwards, I also used acrylic paint for the skin only to realize it gave cracks in the body so there was a lot of patching up. He is not the best looking character for a hero but I find him interesting. If I had more time and proper equipment, he would not appear so basic and primitive looking. Originally he was supposed to have just two legs but because of his form, I had to add two extra legs for balance. It was very difficult making him walk and hold objects. The rubber glove was the solution to hold the broom or mop, this time not painting on the arms and hands.

In conclusion, as though I had no experience for my stop motion and doing animation for the first time I am still pleased of accomplishing something. I want to continue with this but with a different style of animation during my years at Falmouth. OOD and ARTA will live on.

Here is a breif sample of one scene(s) in the stop motion. The whole 3 to 4 minute animation is still in Bournemouth and Poole College in the Art and Design section. I used my camera to take pictures of each individual scene and action of the puppets since I did not have a stop-motion software of my own.