So me and Anna both bought an armature from animation toolkit, I had a go at putting it together, it took me an evening, but then I realised I'd glue the wrong bits. The instructions weren't very clear, and I glued the pins in the joints instead of the sticks to the joints. I had to get Anna's help to fix it and we had to get leon to undo several of them.
I got this far before realising it was wrong. I also thought the sticks they gave me for the legs were either too long or too short so I took them down to leon to get shortened.
Then I stitched stuffing round his limbs to fatten him out, I made his butt cheeks and belly and moobs all swirly so they flexed easily in case the clothes were tight.
I also asked Anna to do my fingers because we had so many tasks to do I knew she could do them faster than I could.
I think next time I make a character, I'll leave a lot more time for it and try and make a silcone mould for the hands and feet instead of using tape (although it was a quick solution in this instance) (like in the paranorman video above). I really really enjoyed sewing the clothes, I think it would have been easier if he had been a skinny character. I love this video. I just love Laika. <3
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