Matchbox: mixed media animation of all the little boxes inside my brain (someone hire me to animate a music video pls)
more of my work here and process ramblings under the cut
So yeah this was a ridiculous project about "identity" and so I made my life incredibly complicated by shooting the entire thing in stop motion on a green screen w/ each individual matchbox as a green screen as well. Then animated a million little boxes by hand. Then Added in some 3d stuff bec presumably i'm doing this master's in 3d motion design.
the major success was finishing this without hating the song bec of how many times i had to listen to it while syncing everything up.
im serious tho someone hire me to make silly music videos PLEASE
gettin ready to watch wendell & wild, was checkin to see if it was Actually Stop Motion Animated (it is), found this nifty lil bit of info, & honestly Good!!! in this modern day & age where i have to google "is thus-&-such stop motion" cause i don't want to watch a fucken cgi film posing as my beloved stop motion, i Want to see the little tiny things that remind me Yess!!! This Movie Was Made The Old Fashioned Way!!!!! i wanna see the fingerprints in the clay god damn it!!!
Watch one of my plush grow from uncut fabric to final photos.
Video description: stop-motion animation of a fox plush being made. Faux fur pieces in black, silver and bright ginger orange get cut, move into a fox shape, attach bit by bit, get turned inside-out for final sewing, turn right-side out and get stuffed, eyes, shaved ears, painted, closed up, and then set up in front of a white board, finished. Music: Lifestream. Musician: Dream Machine. URL: https://icons8.com/music/
101 pieces from 19 different fabrics (17 faux furs and 2 vinyl) went until this fox. It took me twenty-some hours to complete over a month's time, possibly longer to account for all the camera angle fiddling.
This was my first stop-motion video so I definitely learned some things! This is my usual order of assembly for plush, though not every step was captured, in part because I wasn't sure how to do so or it would have been awkward. For example you can see I redid the neck, but didn't show the replacement of the piece between the shoulders. But I hope to try this again and get even more of the process!