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Wallace and Gromit is a series based around a man and his dog. The movies are all claymation, which is a form of stop motion. These movies encapsulate how long the process of forming characters and movement truly takes. They said that this movie took 5 years. Which is five years of planning, photos, and puppets to create a movie. The art of stop motion is inspiring to me. Compared to most movie products, it takes time and every movement and frame matters. I prefer it too regular illustrated animation. Something that I did during my process like they had done in Wallace and Gromit, and most animations, was map out a story plan. Luckily my story was already created from the Bible, but planning what it was going to look like to bring these words to life was the first step in my process.  I also understand where they talk about how some things need to be get shot the first time around because of money or time constraints. My animation was only able to be shot in a three or four window ...

  Tiny Chef was one of the reasons I had decided to felted stop motion. He is a beloved social media icon currently. Known for his humor, and cooking shows.  Something that always sticks out to me is the use of audio in these small animation shorts. The foley created and the little voice makes the animation more fun and humorous. I've put foley and small voices to my characters as well, because I've seen in the process that it's the small things that make animation more enjoyable to watch.  In a lot of his videos, he's singing along to music and having fun. The music truly does effect the tone of the animation, and that's why I'm using a small background audio to guide the emotions felt through the video. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=788865750432437

Miniature cooking felted animations are starting to become more and more popular. Tiny characters being made that have grown many fans, or artists like Andrea Love create small cooking videos from a human hand perspective. Something I've noticed in a lot of these videos is that they still keep the hand doing the work instead of having some type of figure doing them. I think that for my animation I prefer to not have my hands in the shot whatsoever. Just because this makes things a little more difficult and making sure your hand along with the shot has a fluid motion in the sequence.  During my process I've switched to felt sheets like in this animation. I did this to help my backgrounds and props look more cohesive with the figure in action. Having the fridge, stove, and everything made of some type of fabric is something I hope to do more of in the future, but as of right now I'm using a lot of felted objects and also found objects. Just because fabric and felt is VERY exp...

  Paranorman was a childhood movie I watched during halloween. Movies like this, and most older animations were made of clay. They are stop-motion and allowed each scene to be carefully crafted by facial movement, body, and the environment.  During the process of creating the stop-motion, they create different clay versions of the character's face to show a sequence that looks like it's real! That's something I have always found very exciting as a child, that each and every motion and movement has taken time and the attention to detail is incredible.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4CrlpTO9VU In their puppet making process, they create every little detail down to the hair follicles. This level of detail is what makes an okay film, an incredible film! During my process of creating my animation, I wanted to encapsulate a level of detail to push it to be better!