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Akira 101 Blank head is now on sale! Our Akira 101 range is now available for purchase! Akira 101 Blank head comes with replacement face (single piece or split at eye level), independent movement of eyes and eyelids, ear replacement and hidden magnets to support mouth, eyebrows and hair pieces. You can also purchase extra faces […]
Ben Stop Motion Armature Kit Speed Build Video Here’s a high speed video on how our Stop Motion Ben Armature Kit can be built. If you want to know more about the different humanoids you can build with this armature kit, check our blog post UPuno Ben Armature Kit, Male or Female? Visit our online store […]
Ok, so you’ve done your puppet drawing, you’ve nailed down your story board and perhaps even your animatic and you can’t wait to start animating! Apart from getting all those props for your stop motion set, you need to get the armature for your character but where do you start? Wire armature? Ball and socket […]
Stop motion tutorial: How to make a ball and socket tail In this tutorial we’ll try to explain how to make a ball and socket tail for your stop motion armature to give that “feline” effect. Materials needed Threaded lollies Single joints Dremel tool with metal cutting disk and grinder (or metal saw) Threadlocker glue high strength […]
Tim: Stop motion armature kit We’d like to talk a little about our stop motion armature kit Tim, offering outstanding value for money as it’s packed with many incredible features such as 4 tie down points and 8 rigging points no less and being a stop motion armature kit, you can assemble and customise it to your own […]
Stop motion tutorial: How to make wire hands If you’d like to learn how to make wire hands for your next stop motion armature and puppet, you’ve arrived to the right place. The stop motion hands we’ll show you are wire hands, which are simple and cost effective to make. We’ll also show how to attach these hands […]
Stop motion armatures summer sale! The summer is finally here and it’s time to work on all those stop motion animation projects you’ve been preparing. To help you with your characters, here’s our stop motion armatures big summer sale. Yes, you read it right! We have THE summer sale on all our stop motion ball and socket […]
Stop Motion Tutorial: Eyes Blink Today it’s time for a quick stop motion tutorial about eye blinking. The animation of the eyes is very important when animating a character. The eyes give your character soul, make your character alive even when is not moving. Eye blinking is something we, humans and animals, do regularly to […]
Stop motion video: The Pillow Fight We are pleased to show you a quick stop motion video “The Pillow Fight” we’ve been working on for the last couple of days. We had the afternoon off and decided to have some fun with our armatures and rigs. The whole week news and social media have been overloaded by the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight: […]
Stop motion: Rigs now available at UPuno store In this post we want to announce the launch on our store of a couple of new products: our stop motion rigs. These rigs are a big help when animating your character. With them you can achieve postures otherwise impossible. A rig will aid you to animate […]