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

chapter 7

four walls and a sky – sets and props

chaptersummary

•   research the look •   design and building of sets •   interior sets •   exterior sets •   forced perspective •   making props •   rigging •   glossary of materials for sets

research the look

Most of the artistic concepts – the character design and look of your set – are decided before you reach the storyboarding stage, and you will have already thought through the camera angles and lighting scheme. You have probably decided where there will be windows in an interior scene and what appears outside those windows. This chapter will help nail down some of those decisions.

If your setting is an important part of the story, you will want to create the right atmosphere. For your ...