Director Marc Lougee explains some of the intricacies of the design and construction of the puppet used in the stop motion animated adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's classic tale, The Pit and the Pendulum.
For more info on the film, visit the official site!
http://www.thepitandthependulumshortfilm.com
thanks for posting this. i'm ambitiously and a bit blindly trying to build a three foot steel armature (scrap metal monster) in my welding class to use for a stop motion, and i'm going to use the same ball joint principles here. i've come to the conclusion that i have to custom make the joints and i think my best bet is to find the right sized ball screws and construct the rest of it from scratch... but how big should the joint be? much to discover.
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