As the age of stop-frame begins the first thing we have to master is replacement animation, this is where you don't actually move the model but you have a different one for each movement the character makes and you just swop them out. This technique was used to create our frosty friend 'Pingu', one of the biggest pimps of our time.
Firstly we were working in groups and had to create a walk cycle out of five different models, one of the biggest challenges of this project was to actually do it and not just keep putting them in various sexual positions however around 5 hours later, once that novelty had worn off, we got to work.
Heres the first attempt
We weren't too pleased with the legs and his head moves like something out of 'Jacob's Ladder'. We kept focused on keeping the head straight but also using the rules we had learnt by looking at all out walks such as one leg is always straight and obviously the arms must do the opposite action to the legs.
Checks the nexts
We all agreed that this was an improvement but it looked like he was limping quite a lot, we came to the conclusion that because we were using five frames to do two steps one was always gunna hang for longer than the other, we went back and tweaked the feet a little and only used four models
This was definitely the second best we came up with, i say second best coz after this one we made a few more adjustments, filmed it again and it looked slightly better however once we had packed up left the room and decided to reflect on our work we found out the last video had corrupted. I just wanna be honest with ya.
I really enjoyed this exercise because of the nature of the beast i guess, the fact that we could keep going back and changing little things to try and improve it, something that would be a pain in the arse for drawn animation and probably impossible for normal stop-frame. G-night everybody!
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