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Stop Motion: Craft Skills for Model Animation, 3rd Edition
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Stop Motion: Craft Skills for Model Animation, 3rd Edition

by Susannah Shaw
January 2017
Intermediate to advanced
248 pages
6h 34m
English
Routledge
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5 Coat Hangers for Armatures

Making Your Own Model

DOI: 10.1201/9781315771366-5

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 Action/Animation movie—but it never came off.

Nick Park

Practice and experience lead you to your own favorite materials. I hope to give the beginner a ...

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