Introduction to Puppet Making for Stop Motion
Character Design
A course by Adeena Grubb , Puppet Maker and Animation Director
About the video: Character Design
Overview
“Now that we're set with the tools, I will show you how to use an inspiration board to help you design your character. I will be working on a mini-me puppet, but you can design any type of character you like.”
In this video lesson Adeena Grubb addresses the topic: Character Design, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Puppet Making for Stop Motion. Discover the charming world of stop-motion puppet design and learn to build your own characters, from the initial design to the finished figurine.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Character Design Now, I'll start thinking about character design and what my puppet will look like. I'll use Pinterest to find parts of puppets that I like and find out what makes for an interesting character design. I love this puppet from "The Little Prince." I love how the clothes are fabric and I love his little bead eyes. Even though he has tiny bead eyes, you can still get some expression from them with just simple paper eyelids and bits like that. He is great. I always like to make up a backstory for my character. If my character was a sailor, I would give him some stripes and a li...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Puppet Making for Stop Motion
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Category
3D & Animation, Craft -
Areas
Art Toys, Arts & Crafts, Stop Motion
Adeena Grubb
A course by Adeena Grubb
Adeena Grubb is a puppet maker and animation director from London. She’s been passionate about all things miniature since she was a child, building accessories for her toys from materials she found in the Scottish highlands where she grew up. She later went on to study a motion graphics degree and put both her passion and studies into practice to create puppets. After watching the character she created for a Skittles advert come to life, she knew it was a specialty she wanted to pursue full-time.
Since then, Adeena has created content for Samsung, the BBC, Channel 4, Burger King, Greenpeace, Oxfam, Childline, Metcalfes Popcorn, Quickbooks, Puffin, and Mars. She also shares her creations with over 50K followers on Instagram.
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