More Clay Animation: Pyscho Bunnies

So for my Stop Motion class final we are doing a Lip Synch Ultimate Fighter Challenge. This entails animating a 15 second performance to a provided audio clip. I decided that I wanted to use clay because I wanted to stretch the mouths on inbetweens and also, despite it's drawbacks, I think it's actually the most fun to make characters with.

The audio clip I chose is very dramatic and violent sounding, so I created clay bunnies to play out the scene.

Velvetine, the snooty know-it-all. You know the type.

Manny, the meek flip-flopsy one

Captain Garrett "The Carrot" Widowmaker

As their mission becomes more perilous, tensions in the group are revealed. 

Hope you enjoy. 

Animating a Calder-inspired Wire Sculpture

As simple as it is, I think that animating this puppet was my favorite. It was fun to figure out how to make it expressive with limited and abstracted features, and it was definitely the most challenging use of the fishline flying rig.

I did some lighting tests on the Zemeckis stage at USC where I had lots of space to see how to best light the wire for green screen.

Then I mimicked that lighting setup as closely as possible on the Stop Motion shooting stage. 

Against my water footage, she's looking pretty nice.