behind the scenes from "Honey, I'm Home!" (Patreon)

Throwback to January 2020! Came across these photos on my desktop just now and thought I might as well share them with ya'll. This animation was a big milestone in my stop motion journey - learned so much about animation, specifically what NOT to do. 

One such lesson was to keep the characters small! As you can see, these solid clay models are very big (almost a foot tall), and extremely heavy. This is no good in stop motion, since a heavy puppet is unable to support its own weight, and therefore won't be able to stay in place as you take your photos. This resulted in many frustrating moments where a character would fall over, move in unintended ways, etc. In the end, I had to keep most of the character's movements to a minimum to combat this issue. This worked to the advantage of the animation overall though, made it more eerie and unnerving at important moments where I probably would have over-animated otherwise. 

Some of ya'll might not have seen this one since it's going on 3 years old, you can check it out here if you'd like :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4gYrsyuRjM