So, to get started, here’s a video showing how to make a simple puppet, and what you will need. I will look briefly at ball and socket armatures (but will look at these in more detail in another post), and finally I will look at the articulated toys. I use affiliate links as one of the ways to pay for the running of this site, and I always review and offer products that I think would be genuinely interesting for my readers). I’ll start with what you need to make a simple puppet with wire and clay, then I’ll look at some kits available (These are affiliate links, I haven’t been asked to review them, some I recommend, some I don’t. StickBot puppets, which often come as an animation kit, and Lego figures which are not made for animation but there is a Lego Film craze which is a great way to use Lego™ (or Mega Construx™which have more parts to animate). However, there are some toys that are often used for animating with. But a word of warning, they don’t often hold their position, and so it can be hard to create convincing movement, but it can be done to a degree and if that’s what you have to hand, then just give it a go. Lots of toys articulate, such as Action Men, Bionicles and so on. There is one more option here and that is to use ready-made articulated toys. But, you can still use them and it might make an amazing gift for a child to animate with, especially if they are a fan of the show.
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However they are very expensive, and have had a fair bit of use so they are likely to break at some point as they have been used in production and are often sold as they are no longer fit for professional animating.
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It is also possible to buy puppets that have been used in famous kids TV shows, they are sometimes for sale on Ebay, if you search for ‘stop motion animation puppets’ there, they sometimes come up. Right! So in this post you will find a list of what you’ll need and some videos to help you make them. It’s actually really easy, and fun, besides the point of making animation with kids and beginners is to create things. The best approach for this is to make your own. As you can imagine there is an art to stop motion puppet making, but for a beginner, you want something easy, quick and cheap. They need to be able to stand on their own, either by pinning the feet or using magnets to hold them in place. Stop motion animation puppets have some special characteristics, they need to be flexible and easy to bend, but they also need to hold their positions exactly as you left them until you reposition them for the next frame, which could be seconds, or even a day later. You have a smart phone or tablet with a stop motion app on it, you have a tripod and holder, lights, set or stage, or maybe a stop motion animation kit, and now you are looking for something to animate. So you want to give stop motion a try (you may have seen my beginners guide).
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