Post-Production Person Project- Gobi and Babi
- Marie-Therese Philson
- May 20, 2021
- 3 min read
Post-ProductionThe last part of production was the most fun for me and although I enjoyed developing the story, creating my characters and making them into moving puppets. It was excited to finally be able to see my animation come to life and start filming the movements and frames. It has been a while since I had filmed a stop motion piece and although I have been keeping up with my research, I found a helpful video by ‘Inuit Future’ that had given me some information on how to successfully prepare and make my paper puppets, so that they move smoothy as well as a recommendation of a stop motion filming app on the apple store called ‘Stop Motion Studio’.
(Inuit Futures)
This app had all the settings and helpful features like ‘onion skinning’ to help keep you in line when filming your stop motion piece, and to make sure each frame runs smoothly together and there are no repeats or a jumpy timeline.
(Concept Art- Marie)
I had set out all my different components of puppets, expressions, ears and background to make them easy enough to grab and know what part of the storyline I was about to film next. I was able to make the main character ‘Gobi’ the troll and ‘Babi’ the baby sheep and the two other adult sheep with moveable limbs that were free enough to be manipulated into any walk or run.
(Concept Art- Marie)
Every way that I had made my puppets and set up them each for filming at worked out effectively and stayed intact during each scene. The puppets if the original plan of ring binders would have been successful, they may have been able to withstand more use and been more durable, as well as maybe with more preparation I could have laminated each part of the puppet before assembling, as the thin card and sharp edges of the paper clips provided the paper puppets to have some immediate wear and tear.
In future projects I had learnt during the filming of this assignment, the effectiveness of attaching the characters emotions between each shot. I had both made a range of sad, happy, angry emotions and also separate stages of blinking to swap out with my characters and these where not attached. I had attached the main head but as for the other heads/emotions I had left them separate and when filming, I had noticed the jumpiness between each shot were the character changed emotions and how you were able to see a double outline of the characters head.
(Concept Art- Marie)
This allowed me to understand that for further stop motion work, to take more time to make my puppets more durable in filming, in case my filming needed to be longer than scheduled timing and also to perhaps detach the heads all together or create a smoother and cleaner process in swapping out the emotions for the characters.
(Concept Art- Marie)
This image was an filming setup I had made with my iPhone tripod, some lens and a camera clicker. This was really helpful during the filming process as I could move the characters, click the button and not worry about my hand showing in the screen, moving the camera or creating a shadow. I made the stand using a metal tripod, chest of drawers to prop up the tripod to a horizontal angle and had my printed background for the base of my shot. This set up although not too professional, had worked efficiently for my purpose.
(Film Setting, First Hand Photo)
This is were from here on the research I had made sure I done up until this point was in depth and available to use, in order to make my filming process as smooth and accurate as possible.
(Gobi and Babi- Marie)
My favourite shot from the entire animation would have to be within the beginning scene of the three sheep making their first appearance and crossing the bridge I enjoyed this entire project as stop motion is something I am passionate about and was interesting seeing my beginning references of lambs jumping across the field on an afternoon walk, to my three paper puppet sheep bouncing along in my short animation.
An enjoyable project to say the least and my first ever paper puppet animation, I hope to keep improving on stop motion, encourage my learning and branch out with different materials.
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