 all right welcome back it's time for another review and today I'm gonna take a look at sticky bones all right so I got actually two of these they're supposed to be different colors I haven't opened them yet they also came with flight rigs obviously two of them and this is supposed to be a metallic base to put the character on once they're assembled and they have magnets in the shoes or the feet so they can stick so I'm very very curious how this is going to turn out I haven't animated some motions in school so this is not going to be a review from a point of view of a master stop motion artist but sticky bones has released a new clip with a really really good examples I'm gonna link that in the description the animation is absolutely fantastic I am unable to do this but this is going to be part one so part one is going to be the unboxing showing you what the package contains how the assembly is going to be I will fast forward through the assembly again there's a link in description sticky bones has a step-by-step clip of how to assemble this properly so I'm not gonna parrot their clips so go on their website it's fantastic it shows exactly what to do but part one is going to be kind of a look at what is this package again two of them with flight rigs and the metal base and then part two is going to be me animating and trying not to be absolutely horrible but then it's going to be a perspective of if you are a beginner like I am and you want to start stop motion how is this going to be for you now given the fantastic example it's a great piece of armature so I'm sure it's gonna be great it's gonna be limited by my horrible attempts at stop motion but I think it might be an interesting point of view of if you haven't done stop motion in a while or not at all how is this going to be for you all right so let's get the big package out of the way first let me see oh this is nicely taped I might need a tool there you go and let's be very careful not to cut onto the surface another cut doctor I'm watching a lot of ER so I know how to do this all right this is the surface there are holes on the corners interesting maybe potentially to nail this into the surface or whatever working table you have for a better stability I think that's pretty cool actually all right there you go this I have dirty fingers there you go that is the surface nice and sturdy good way to it I'm saying this as if it was a specialist and how this works I'm just saying these are my impressions I know I'm a child let's put this to the side next up we have these guys so I'm gonna actually just unbox one but I'm open both to see which colors they are because I thought I had different colors now they did come with probably that's what I have on my fingers you know your shipping might be different so this came with specific coding of something on there let me see I don't want to completely ruin this package look at that beautiful and and okay that's number one you got your instructions here you have what is this a sticker and you have a base as well you can see the hole there all right and this is the blue version sticky bone number two then same thing instructions with a more neutral gray cool face well I'm gonna go with this one for no reason so that is the content here so you got your pieces you got your instruction you got the base a sticker I don't know what this is what is this looks like more weight we'll see what that is got your body your arms and your legs that is it inside here it's nicely protected mating California it's all we have on the packaging got your sticker well I'm gonna use this right away all right so these are the pieces and we have here the instruction booklet pamphlet whatever you call this step one layout parts are shown in diagram on the left to watch our follow along video snap parts together start posing these are the steps look at that nice detailed very cool I'm gonna try to follow this there is also the back that's the fly rig very cool also in a very convenient green with your green screen purposes to key that out or paint it out so let's do a time lapse of me assembling this wish me good luck okay that was it so what I did was I assembled this just using that I had to peek every now and then to see what piece is what I did not watch the instructional clip why because I wanted to see if I have no idea what's going on how easy is this to assemble without any instructions besides this and I have to say it's very easy it was great it looked someone intimidating having all the little pieces and there I say take this actually it takes pretty well I'm not sure if I assembled the thumbs correctly I think it's okay not sure if that's what it's supposed to be so I'm definitely going to check on that but it's super cool how this happens every now and then the fingers come off I was gonna say it's super cool how you can pose the fingers and it is super cool but because I am not used to this and I'm not good at this I'm popping off the fingers also your fingers are not bending this way only they are bending in all directions so you can rotate them in any direction which obviously gives you a lot more freedom in terms of posing but just be mindful of that but if you go too far they will pop off which makes sense I mean that's the construction it's not going to just stay on but it has a magnet which is cool here again they're easily foldable so I'm very curious to see how bad I'm going to be at this the cool thing is this that the head can do this right you have two sets of rotation so you can actually do this so your head can be like this right and at the same time you can really bring that head forward it's really cool you can get a really interesting hunch over position with the head like that that's a massive range of motion there it's very cool it's definitely on the delusor side so because you have those tiny little movements that you can make you probably get a lot of subtle movement out of the head it's very cool right as the upper body like this the torso aspect again this is speaking from someone was zero idea this is really hard to move at the same time I'm assuming everything needs kind of like a break in phase just kind of get this a bit looser on the hip aspect and this is cool then you have the legs feet I'm expecting the ankles to be hard which they are since you want to hold a pose like this you can see how easily can hold that pose which is very cool put this on here look at that no problem holding all the way back look at this it doesn't bend at all it just stays put that's fantastic but this is what happens when you don't know how to do any of this the fingers turn into that so for me that's gonna be interesting how I'm gonna be able to control the finger poses like that there's definitely a big range of motion in your shoulders also bit hard whoops and then it come off but again that's all normal you know you go beyond a certain point it's gonna come off but the range of motion in theory is really good is there hard to turn gotta say the upper chest so this area of bending and the shoulders are a bit hard but again it's probably all purpose term in terms of what the hand is supposed to do holding weights because they also have magnets here do you have magnets there and you got magnets there so if your character is doing I don't like a cartwheel or something and I'm gonna put these guys down here and that's the pose see that that joint is very loose there so it's not gonna be holding just on the hand alone but as pretend it's it's really holding tightly on your wrist however you want to do this you can see that it does bend down so it's not super hard and not super loose so it all depends what you want to do motion wise again this is speaking from someone who has zero idea this is just my current impressions it's very cool though I really can't wait to see how bad I am at this but yeah you got full-on bendy poses on the feet again you can I mean the posing I mean obviously if you've watched the professionally made clip you can get so much out of this armature came off again this is just me I don't fault the product just got to be very very careful how you move things but you know I can't wait to see and to practice was I always wanted to get into stop motion on some you know very superficial level because I think the art form is just bananas the quality that people get out of stop motion the fluidity and the acting on something that you have to you know tweak like this frame by frame and if you bump the table everything goes wrong crazy now the other one that seemed a bit softer than I thought was the fly rig so the fly rig you can see here you got all kinds of options cool get your magnets there and then I can lift this whole thing can't here on the edge I can strong enough now if I put this up here and I put the guy so he has a little backside so you can put this in here and you can put this you know as strong as you want it's gonna be looser or not depending on your motion you want to get this quickly in and out of it but holds pretty well you go forward and let's say I'm gonna do kind of a bendy flying pose it's not too bad it's definitely wiggly so that's gonna be interesting too if you do something that has a you know a midair jump or something you're gonna be I'm gonna cheer up be at this if I had something where you have to use this and then bring your character over and again I don't know how to use this I'm just you know you probably pose like this and then you want to bring it into another flying pose but then it bends down it's just all about you know experience in practice so looking at the professional clip that's the level okay well you can do this so if I can't do it it's not the fault of the armature it's just I'm not good at it so I think the build quality is great I'm very curious about the fingers I gotta be very careful to not snap these off again I think that holds also pretty well the magnets are great the magnets on this cool you know I mean you can see how well this holds look at this it's very very cool I'm massively intimidated by this by the way but yeah I'm I really is I know not that you want to do all your poses like that I really really like this so much range it's if you bring that at the shoulders up see I already feel like the shoulders are getting looser it's great it's really cool so that look at that straight pose holds holds on this it holds really well yeah I'm very very impressed I do take the head off all the time but again you want to be just very careful because you want little subtle head moves and everything it's cool so cool sorry I'm just now playing around with zero purpose I'm just fascinated by this now I had two more of these it also has an extra set of feet and palms so these are my impressions now this is not a critique this is full on just a wish list because this is really cool and again I'm very concerned about my stop motion abilities but I really can't wait to get into this now if there was a wish list if you know if this gets millions and millions of dollars and they have so much money and they can go and do more what would I love to see well the interesting thing is that again I don't know if that's a because of production issues and time and or maybe just a stylization and simplification but as you can see you got three fingers in a thumb so it'd be cool to get potentially different hands five fingers it would be cool obviously to get a woman so you have male and female and it'd be cool to get me a potentially different packs of maybe there's something you can clip on on the head for hair that could be a cool interesting maybe something with a magnet as well and then you get flowy hair that might get assembled kind of like the fingers so you get flowy hair potentially and you can almost go into props with ties and coats or something which sounds very complicated that could be cool it would be interesting too as you can see this is one one head so it'd be cool to potentially have a jaw so you could do kind of a basic jaw lip sync pantomime muppet style animation as well you can extrapolate that into also having creatures again that they're probably busy just getting this and sending it out to the last backers and then seeing where you can just buy this in general this is just me thinking a lot in terms of wish list kids creatures different hands different feet get a different shoes hair y'all can do props I know I think the possibilities are obviously fairly endless so yeah that's it if you are interested I have all the links in the description with the sticky bones website their instructional video of how to assemble this properly not like me the professional clip that they did with a fantastic animation and overall again as a summary I'm really impressed and again take this with a grain of salt since I have you know zero experience but just as someone goes well I would like to dabble and see you know what I could do with this this is very encouraging and I'm just a big fan of how you can pose the fingers I think that would say that's it for part one look out for part two where I'm actually gonna animate this and see how it goes if you've got this as well and you got any comments in terms of hey JD you did something wrong or hey you can do this with that whatever experience that you have with it I'm curious to know if there's anything that I overlooked or if you've started animating with this what your experiences are if there's anything I need to pay attention to I hope this was helpful in terms of just a general unboxing and a general impression of if you have no idea what's going on you take this out how quickly can you assemble this and is it easy to do and it is can I say as a complete layman I thought this was really really easy to assemble as always if you like this like and subscribe bell button would be awesome I would love it and this is a longer-ish clip so as always if you watch this till the very end thank you very much and to everybody who is involved with this construction with the sanding the marketing the builds the Kickstarter as a whole I would say Sticky Bones team congratulations this is super cool