Adventures of Ena Monstar

[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

[purple-buddha-project]

[conop-8888]

[tiffanarchy]

if there was a 6 and a 9 there would be 69 and that’s the sex number

[moistnugget]

[princessesfanarts]

By Ross Tran

[lezmazikeen-blog]

[feckyeslife-archive-deactivated]

THEY JUST KEEP JUMPING ON THE COUNTER. AND CRAWLING UP HER LEG. THIS IS THE GREATEST PROBLEM YOU COULD EVER HAVE

[ricca-raccoon]

This is both adorable and stressful to watch. Damn it, kittens, be good! Food’s coming!

[erisiana]

OH MY GOD SHE NAMED ONE OF HER CATS OBAMA

[fenrir-kin]

I love that kittens are gently placed on the ground… whereas adult cats, because they should know better (and are undoubtedly better at landing on their feet) are just… flung.

[shelbyandvali-deactivated201810]

Oh my god I love this

[ignescent]

I love that the kittens continue climbing her even after she steps away from the food - the goal is no longer ‘get to food’ it is ‘climb the human’!

[lynati]

UNDER SEIGE!!

[catreadmymind]

Goals. Somewhat.

[sixpenceee]

This is a blue glacier. The top fresh ice has scuffed off of the top, likely from wind, creating a wave like appearance.

[thetrippytrip]

My girl spoke nothing but fucking TRUTH. Now that’s this kind of Women we need our girls to look up too.

[ladygreytea76]

Who is she?

[enigmazing-blog]

Sarah Kendzior.

She’s an expert in authoritarianism and has accurately predicted almost everything that is happening - her unflinching insight and analysis is terrifying but invaluable right now. Well worth following on twitter.

[anosci]

fucking

why did i never see this until now

[thessalian]

You know what saddens me?

How fast she has to talk.

If a man were saying that, he’d be going slowly to emphasise points. He’d be indulging in the occasional ‘you know’ or other filler words. He’d be able to stop for breath. Notice that she didn’t do that. She had the whole thing memorised and she got it out with barely a pause to breathe.

Why?

Because she expected to be interrupted.

What she said was awesome and is absolutely true, and is frankly underlined by the fact that she had to say the whole thing all at once for fear that she wouldn’t be able to say it at all if she so much as stopped to breathe because one of those older white men sitting around her would interrupt and roll right over her.

[adamthegirl]

what i notice is the guys in the audience sitting motionless, declining to applaud, though every word she spoke was truth and she spoke it with fire. it’s not the content, it’s a powerful, intelligent woman speaking truth with fire that they choose not to support.

[lekkerish-deactivated20121128]

[joshpeckofficial-deactivated201]

this is my favorite image on the internet

[spacefaring-kissboi]

[mrandmrskarev]

❥ Alex & Jo + “I love you” through the seasons // 9x24 to 14x24.

[ebonyeyes1984]

Rick James @ the 2004 BET Awards

[awwww-cute]

Dormammu, I’ve come to bargain (Source: https://ift.tt/2mgeTjm)

[bevioletskies]

badass women of the MCU → valkyrie

“I don’t plan to stop drinking. But…I don’t wanna forget. I can’t turn away anymore. So…if I’m gonna die, well…it might as well be driving my sword through the heart of that murderous hag.”

[harljordan]

Thor Odinson: God of Thunder and Feminist Icon

[anarchohellenism]

Thor really drinking his respect women juice

[pettycentral]

[neilnevins-deactivated20240617]

[beauzos]

when a character you hate dies

[excima]

I’m bubbie

[captioned-miscellaneous-videos]

Flapjack: “Bubbie.”

Bubbie: “Yeah, baby?”

Flapjack: [sadly] “I miss K’nuckles.”

Bubbie: [cheerfully] “I don’t!”

[crouchingtiger-hiddennegro]

Casual reminder

[disabled-dionysus]

{ID: tweet by Dallas Goldtooth. “Whose original tribal territories do you currently live upon? If you don’t know, you have some homework.”}

[madamspeaker]

[mamalazzer]

The new Star Wars trailer looks amazing

[finsngils-deactivated20210213]

Why is she holding it like a wand

[southernalchemy-deactivated2019]

Because she’s a fucking witch, Grant.

[gracestealingcastiel]

I don’t care what this is but I’d love some context

[stability]