Stop Motion Tutorial: Animating a Walk
A real-life walk is a complex orchestration of balance, momentum, and circular patterns of movement that can be tricky to reproduce convincingly in animation. But perhaps this tutorial can get you started. I cover supplies needed, suggested hardware and software, animation principles, and step-by-step (pun intended) animation instructions.
In this tutorial I talk about using a camcorder. Times have changed. A phone with a stop motion app like Stop Motion Studio will work fine.
Please see my other tutorials on how to make a puppet, as well as other stop motion subjects.
Shopping:
Clay (Van Aken, Sculpy), armature wire, cotton batting to build up puppet: Arts/craft store or amazon.com
Armature kit: stopmotionstore.com
Puppet clothes (Barbie/Ken clothes: Toy store, ebay, amazon.com
Surface gauges: ZORO tools, ebay
Tie-down hardware, epoxy putty: Hardware store
Animation Clips:
Uncredited walks are sample assignments I did for classes I taught, or my own projects. Sources for other clips are noted.
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