Stop Motion bespoke puppet: The Rabbit With the client’s permission, we wanted to share with you some fabrication details of a stop motion bespoke puppet: The Rabbit. She will come to life under the wonderful hands of the stop motion animator. It all started with an email with a few sketches the client had in mind. […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
Stop Motion Armatures: 12″ & 11″ Armatures on Sale Now We are pleased to announce the lunch of a new standard Stop Motion Armature range now on sale at our Stop Motion Store. These new stop motion armatures are 12″ & 11″ tall and are called Milo L and Lisa L (L for large). These two […]
Stop Motion armatures: Hinge vs Ball & Socket Joint We’d like to talk about the hinge joint used in stop motion armatures and compare them with the ball and socket joint type for armature knees. Hinged knees Hinged joints are moulded to each other in such a manner as to permit motion only in one plane. Think […]
Stop Motion Tie-Down now available at UPuno Store We’ve launched a Stop Motion M3 Threaded Tie-Down and it’s now available on our stop motion store. All our armatures come with 2 tie-downs included but now you can buy them separately and at a competitive price. When animating your character, quite often you need to place your puppet at out-of-balance pose like […]