The Haiku Menace

When the evil Dr. Haiku arrives in town, Sophie Swanson, Titular Heroine, suspects that he might be up to some villainous schemes, and sets about investigating, against the orders of the editor-in-chief.

This is the first of four Sophie Swanson shorts, if you visit www.SophieSwanson.com you can subscribe to the pod cast to keep up on the latest episode. If you like the show and would like to support it you could visit the website a buy a high quality version of this episode for $1.50. If things go well we may making another set of episodes once we are done with this set.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• clay
• mation
• stop
• motion
• stopmotion
• claymation
• poatry
• haiku
• reporter
• diner
• funny

[sidmjam]

sorry for another question, but how did you animate the paper?

because that wouldnt stay in its origanal position?

did you use rigging or something, then edit it out?

[SlothPaladin]

it's computer paper which is really quite thick when you realize how small the pages are, so I took it from her hand, pre-bent it a bit put it back in her hand and made sure it was the same angle with my frame grabber each frame. No rigging required.

[sidmjam]

you know their legs are so thin?

how do you keep them standing while animating?

[SlothPaladin]

I have some thicker aluminum wire (1/8 inch I think), thick enough so I don't need a twisted pair, keeping them standing is easer then to keep the clay sticking to the legs.

[sidmjam]

yea but even if they have small feet but strong legs, won't they still topple over?

[SlothPaladin]

90% of the time you don't even see the feet, however the feet are somewhat large, and are just part of the wire that makes up the leg, if you look at the scenes where you can see the feet they are long but thin, much like Bugs Bunny's feet. But I usually avoid showing feet like the plague, a great trick is not showing what you don't have to.

[technochook]

wow this is awesome

[Pivotmaster582]

松雄芭蕉

[sidmjam]

thanks

[bridouth]

Loved this! One of the best vids I've seen on here.