A warm cup of milk & honey.

[animatingforfun]

Stop-Motion Moana

“We can rebuild her… We have the technology… We know the way!”

A few months ago I ripped apart a Moana doll and made it into a stop-motion puppet using a kinetic armature kit.  

The walk cycle above was the first thing I animated with this puppet, and was just a throw-away practice test with no green screen. I had never done a walk cycle in stop-motion before and soon discovered how difficult animating a straight-ahead cycle within a localized space with no retakes could be.

I showed the cycle to my dad while he was holding my Moana puppet in his hand and he seemed more impressed with this crappy test than the actual animation I did on the movie! I think the combination of him holding the puppet, and then seeing it come to life on the video before him was what blew him away. I guess that’s the appeal and magic of stop-motion. :)

Here’s a second test I animated for fun:

I read that it’s best to have the foot joints nice and tight to hold the weight of the puppet, and have the arms looser.  It’s amazing how much weight those toe and foot ball-joints could hold for the falling poses:

[mindfulwrath]

reblog if u support ROBOMOANA

[knusprig-titten-hitler]

[33v0]

Wqhat the fuck

[miscbones]

ITS JUST FLUFF. THERES NO DOG ITS JUST FLUFF OMG

[user483748483]

No that dog has super speed and is vibrating so fast that it is able to move its molecules through that fence.

[niggazinmoscow]

This shows humor is criminally underrated

[tastefullyoffensive]

A father’s love. (via Kieeraaa)

[em-pocket]

[psych2go]

The utopian life

[gifyourass]

[la-laborista-republiko]

[sbrown82]

[hangrypapi-deactivated20210411]

[weloveshortvideos]

[bellaxiao]

[tideartist-deactivated20171102]

Needed this to cheer up–

[disgustinganimals]

please watch with sound on

[gojiberrydraws]

oh this is… this is good

[domino-doodles]

Why does this make me laugh so hard

[skyqueen21fire-deactivated20180]

I love this

[eponniia-deactivated20190521]

A human heart has only so much room for love and affection. When a baby moves in, the dog moves out.

[chriisevanss]

Disney Movie Couples Concept Art  ( x )

[quotemadness]

“Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made.”

— Tyler Kent White

[localstarboy]

[curvas-peligr0sas-deactivated20]

I️ lost it at the meat slap

[lanadelcuntflap]

Tears 😭

[zenpage18]

@needsthetea I’m crying 😂😂😂😂😂

[ampervadasz]

[garbage-empress]

she who controls the frogs controls it all

[jtated-deactivated20180729]

At first I was like hmmmmmm but THEN

[fullcravings]

Lucky Charms Frosted Flakes Cookies

[killmongerthiskoochie]

michael b. jordan featured on a sip with issa rae 

“what sort of things did your family and friends do to support you and, to y’know, re-enforce that your are the talented person that you are?”