Animation Walk Test with Armabenders Armature

[FreelancerSamJCaboos]

Man, I wish Bionicles had tie downs. That'd make my life a heck of a lot easier. I have to freakin stickytack the feet down, and even that doesn't always work...

[HubBAbubBAgrrrl]

Just looked at "The Animator's Survival Kit" which I found from your recommendation. Great book! And I keep re-watching this test. I love how he moves! Thanks for all your helpful videos!!

[AxcelKaru]

Why does this remind me of candle cove so much DX

But superb job man, it looked really good.

[finktube]

That's terrific.

[cronosmty]

smooth and great rhytm congratulations!

[terrymation]

ooooh! nice and fluid!

[TiniNormi]

Man that's smooth.

[captainkimmmm]

you're animation is very good! i love the way he just saunters along :)

[picklemnstr11]

how do you keep your puppets balanced? i just can't keep mine balanced and they fall over then you probably know how it makes the stopmotion...

[animateclay]

Under the set is a screw that holds his feet down called a tie down. You can use a screw from above or use a tie down from below. Tie downs are basically long thin bolts with a wing nut, and the feet have a tapped hole with the same threads as the bolt.

[Duraganthelion]

That is amazing! So very fluid and smooth :)

[StepbyStepTutorials]

Nice, you really have created emotion in this character.

[jobiwonkinosi]

does he lift his feet off the ground? thats the only thin i can see wrong, and its a bit draggy

[Brickytamland]

clearly thats the intention

[vap4149]

Good sense of mass.

[idothing]

Guess, this would be one of the zombie-pirates - the skull but especially the walk; like dragging something. A little bit stiff in his joints, but NOT in cause of bad animation, rather in cause of good animation, like, ahm yes, a zombie pirate, maybe walking over slowly shaking ground...

[clabbergirl70]

That movement is beautiful, it just confirmed the need for a professional armature kit!

[MoneyShotMike23]

very very nice. very smooth.

[darkhole777]

awesome

[stuartstudios]

hey, what tie downs did you use for this, because if i use the nut and bolt type ones then i have to make holes in the floor of my set.

also really nice smooth movement

[animateclay]

Holes drilled in set floors are the best way to tie your puppet down. You just need to cover the holes with pieces of tape painted to match the floor.

[Walkerion]

you bought a $320 ArmaBenders Armature Kit. No rwason it was so good.!!!

[Walkerion]

really, really, really, really, realistic movement. very nice!:D 5*

[cowwer6]

do you know any good free software cuz windows moviemaker dont work out to well for me

[animateclay]

I would start out with a simple film - most people think of making features and give up when they see how involved it is. My second piece of advice is dont give up and always try to make it fun.

[animateclay]

stop motion pro

[chewnacker]

Hi, i'm fairly new to this medium, planning to start getting to work on a movie of my own, can you tell me what the armature for this model is made up from, cheers.

[animateclay]

Hi chew, they are made from bronze balls with brass sandwich joints - and aluminum blocks.

[chewnacker]

Cheers, i'll get to work on that ASAP and let you know the progress being made!

[animateclay]

Hey pram, its tie downs. Magnets wont work for feet that tiny.

[Blutacandmusic]

Awesome stop motion!

[Necrypt]

WOW, that thing walks just like Jack Skellington does on Nightmare Before Christmas!!! Congratulations!!!

[CalJennings]

Good stuff! IIIIiiiiii LIKE IT!!!

Love, Hope, Peace, & Christ Be With You,

Cal-el

[manineedadate]

Yousa is da man! Mesa a subscriber to yousa!(insert Jar-Jar) I love ur animations, keep up the Hollywood GREATNESS, man! yuo probably worked on Chicken run or something to get that good!

[monnie110]

Great character and backround mark.

-monnie101 from the stopmotionanimation forum.

[StopMoColorado]

Nice walk, Marc. I love the "jive" in the shoulders...

[Shangoze94]

awesome! I never knew that website was yours! I always looked at it but I had noc lue you owned it!

[Vicious516]

that looked great

[mamshmam]

Awesome job, I want some armatures like that :)

[virtualwenrog]

That's really smooth! You're a good animator!

[rayscreations]

That looked GREAT!!!

[chibizumi]

Ah!! :)! Great

[Smaco]

awesome!