And welcome! Sit down, sit down!! Here, by the fire... Stay as long as you like!! We have,um... Pizza, or, uh, marshmallows, if that's more your thing...
Here you'll find stop motion with fuzzy little characters, and drawings/sketches, animations and art.... of the same characters, hehe
Mostly Undertale/Deltarune, and some Aus based on them!! All (or some) in 3D felt form!!!
I'm planning to make something for Undertale's 10th anniversary, so if you want to stick around and see some of the process, feel free!
Hopefully you enjoy your stay, and if you're just passing through then happy travels!
Advice question! I was thinking of getting some kind of poseable masculine figure for art reference and wondered if you had any advice on that? A lot of the ones I've seen have such big distorted joints (for example just a big orb where the elbow should be or a big gap in the torso). If half the anatomy isn't there, it feels kinda pointless to get, but I also know it would probably improve my figure-drawing skills to have at least something. Your advice would be really helpful!
Hey there! Thank you so much for asking!
I usually alternate between these two:
Figure Body Zero from VToys (left) and figma Male Archetype from Good Smile (right).
(The figma was a gift and I owned it for several years but they were both purchased on AmiAmi).
Both have their strengths and weaknesses. The Figure Body Zero figure shows more detail but poses stiffly.
The figma Male Archetype has more simplified details but poses more fluidly, (a notorious feature of many figma line figures in general).
They each come with additional parts like extra hands (but I misplaced the figma ones)
I also know from personal experience that it’s difficult to find the perfect posing figure. Figures like these tend to be limited, sell out quickly and may or may not have rereleases so they may be worth more than MSRP or difficult to find altogether after a while.
I settled on a combination I liked for a decent price (plus they’re portable) but I still supplement with resources from places such as Quickposes and Posemaniacs among others.
if you don't mind, could you go through your creative process? how you make your puppets, how you animate them and such?
Sure thing anon! I'll try my best..
First of all though don't expect anything AMAZING because this is super unprofessional and I basically improvise most of it, so uh, yeah.
I was making Frisk so we'll use them as an example I guess.
I make a base for the character first thing, using polystyrene ( DO NOT USE CHESTNUTS, your welcome) and pipe cleaners. (You can see I put Frisk's colours there too, cuz I think it's cool but it also serves an actual purpose... You can probably guess too ;))
Then I just make the rest of the character, typically I start from down, up. I try to keep as close to the original sprites as possible, don't add anything and make sure it's simple. So with the hair only those slight details you can see and the clothes have just the stripes. Unfortunately I couldn't make a real onesie for Frisk :(
(I added the stripes on the sleeves too, for Frisk it's because of that one sprite - you know the one! - and Chara weeellll, they're actually based on TS!UNDERSWAP Chara and they have the stripe there, also it just looks better...imo)
Don't really know how to explain this ... So I'll just jot down some things I do or I've learnt from working on them.
Whenever there's something on a character's clothes (eg. Frisk's stripes), I do that first before closing off the shirt, it saves an awkward hassle later.
If there's supposed to be a joint (e.g. knees, elbows) I separate the felt there. So I know where the joint is when I'm animating and it's easier to bend without restrictions. (You can most probably see this on Chara and Frisk)
The hands are my favourite to do! I make a skeleton hand (basically) out of wire and then stitch two hand shaped felts around it so that the wire is inside and you have posable fingers!!
The head is usually the trickiest part, (I never know how to do the hair!!) for me it's just trial and error, there's no point in planning it out on paper because I wouldn't even know where to BEGIN!! That's just me though!
The eyes and mouth need to be changeable, so no glue or anything, I just stick em on and they... Stay there. Sometimes.
WARNING! The amount of needles and felt pieces you will lose is catastrophic. You have been warned...
I used Chara as a reference here, copying what I'd done to get another fallen human...
And.... You got yourself a puppet!! :D
For a Chara sized puppet it takes 2-3 days, Flowey was done in one. Sometimes I come back and fix something up, or replace it, if I don't like it. I'll most probably do that to everyone at some point :'(
I'll make another one of these to show how I animate these guys, cuz I don't want this to be too long.
Also if anyone understood any of that and if you DO make a puppet based on this, I'd really love to see it! :D
