Introduction to Puppet Making for Stop Motion
Armature and Rigging Point 1
A course by Adeena Grubb , Puppet Maker and Animation Director
About the video: Armature and Rigging Point 1
Overview
“The first step will be to make a good, solid base for the character – the armature will be the skeleton of the puppet. I will start by cutting a piece of balsa wood and shaping it with a cutter to get the head. I will use a scalpel to refine the edges.”
In this video lesson Adeena Grubb addresses the topic: Armature and Rigging Point 1, 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
“In this lesson, I'll show you how to make an armature for your puppet and add a rigging point for potential animation. I'm gonna start with my chunk of balsa wood. And I'm going to mark it with my pencil just so I can match the drawing. So. It's about 3.5 by five. So starting with the head. And I'm actually gonna, cut this whole chunk out, so I'm going to do one vertical cut here and I'm going to be using this little clamp You can do it without, but this is just to make sure. Don't cut a finger. I take my little saw and I'm just gonna carefully cut along the sling. So with balsa wood as wel...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Puppet Making for Stop Motion
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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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