Ok so this video is pretty jumpy. It's a test sketch of a new puppet I manufactured over the last couple weeks for school. It's also a little faded looking due to the experiment with a makeshift fabric "filter" I put over the camera, which I think may have an application for the other stuff I want to do.
I'm intending to animate the puppet coming out of a chrysalis. Kind of a predictable video perhaps, but I'm new at this and it's an easy set. the best thing I can do is make something simple the best I can, so I understand the nuance. Later I can do something more complicated.
The set was too small so I zoomed in too close to see the wings in all their glory, and the puppet is honestly too big, so the process of animating her takes some awkward support systems (I bought a microphone boom just for that purpose, and you can actually see the little thread on her left wing.)
All in all it was a great and informative test but as a video itself it's not much of a product... more part of the process!
I loved working with "breathing cycles" which I don't see much in 3 dimensional stop motion, but it's pretty much standard in 2-d analog animating.
