Bubo III: FINISHED!!!!

Finally the third and final (for now) Bubo from 1981's Clash of the Titans is finished and off my plate!!! Now I can more fully focus on the PBY, traditional animation, violin and stopmotion!

Stopmotion: room upgrade!

A before and after shot of the closet. I built new tables right into the walls so that table shake is impossible! I figure I can have two scenes going on at once here. Since everything is wood, I'll also be able to drill right into the table no problem! Tomorrow I start building the test Forest Spirit head. But I've also been mulling around a quick Rankin Bass christmas parody as well. The possibilities are literally endless!!!!

Stopmotion: First Test!!!!!

I got my cord in today and set everything up!!!! I found my shuttle Tydirium and thought the movable wings would work as a good test! Sadly, one wing didn't have friction all the way through and just fell early on. The movement away looks like a Gumby animation. But HEY! EVERYTING WORKS!!!!!!

Stopmotion: The right gear.

  Over the weekend I bought a dedicated laptop for stopmotion and just today I got Dragonframe 4 in the mail! The laptop is a Samsung 15" Touchscreen from Best buy for $649.00. Dragonframe was about $325. I accidentally ordered a separate blutooth controller for it for another $65 (GRRRR!). I thought I could digitally download just the software so I ordered the nicer controller first. Then I found out that you can't purchase a full version of the software for download. You HAVE to get it with a USB controller... oh well.

My old Canon Rebel T1i will work with Dragonframe 4, I just checked the website. I went on Amazon and ordered the camera's USB cord. So, in theory, on Wednesday I will be able to plug everything in and start animating!!! Now I just need to build the armatures. I'm going to start with the larger close up head first. I can do tests with it and such.