Stop Motion: Craft Skills for Model Animation, 2nd Edition

chapter 5

coat-hangers for armatures – making your own model

chaptersummary

•   character design •   working with modelling clays •   making your own puppet –  simple wire and plasticine puppet –  durable clothed puppet

I really admire all Ray Harryhausen's work. I did try to emulate him when I started with my own home movies. In the attic, I remember making a model dinosaur, which was bendable – wire coat-hangers as armatures – I didn't know anything about the right wire or the right rubber, materials or anything. I used foam rubber on the body, but I didn't know what to cover it with – what would make leathery skin – so I used my mum's old nylon tights and spray painted it. I never got to make that movie – I had big plans for it: Live ...