Meticulous? Yes.
Time consuming? Of course!
Going to look awesome when it's done? You bet you ass it's going to look awesome...I hope.
I admire animation in any form it's presented, one way of animating in particular has always captured my attention and that's Stop Motion Animation! As I was gathering all my supplies for this venture I kept having to explain to people at Lowe's, Home Depot, and Michael's what the heck Stop Motion was. They still looked completely confused until I listed all the movies using this method. "You know you've seen em', The Nightmare Before Christmas, Chicken Run, Wallace and Gromit, Box Trolls, and...Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer!!! for Pete sake you see that every Christmas. It's all Stop Motion Animation!"
Picture by picture, moving the characters slowly across the stage, what seems like magic when you see it all done on screen is a boat load of work!!!
So it is time to hunker down, lock myself in my apartment and go absolutely bonkers playing with these clay puppets I created.
The story, I think I will title "Slots", the plot goes like this, two old folk sit down at the slot machines both feeling lucky. One wins a little here and there and is happy with her winnings, while the other has no luck and goes down to his last coin. He pushes his last coin in, the reel spins and spins as if to never stop and reveal the result. Cherry, cherry, click, click, click, ever so slowing coming to a stop and BOOM, three cherries, JACKPOT! lights, noise, the old man grips his chest and collapses as the his winnings are spitting out of the machine covering his incapacitated body on the ground. The old lady is clam and looks over the pile of coins, she slowly reaches over and grabs one from the top, places it in her machine and continues to play....She really has a gambling problem. Any who, that's how I plan for it to go.
I've gotten quite a bit done already. So below is an on-slot of photos I have to share. Also, a small note, I've named them; Blanche and Morty.
Sketches....
Building their base structure/rig/armature....
Next, flesh i.e. Plasticine...
I gave each character an additional head so I can have a different emotion on their face.
Time to animate!
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