Making the mutocope reel

All 400-odd frames of the animation printed and bound into a snaking strip, then attached to a pipe cyclinder. I built a box to house it, and also a couple of cogs to gear-down the turning action. It's almost done! Just needs a pacer to make the pages 'flick', a lid and a lick of paint.





Here are some tiny little hands from another project I've been working on.



Little hands for little ghosts!

More models

Body for clay head from the previous post to sit on:



Dusty old sideshow tent:




Stills from the animation - I might put up a link to the video if I can.

Mutoscope and models

I've been model-making for a short animation animation to be made into a mutocope. I experimented with making heads with posable features before hitting on the idea of using projection. In this way, I could film all the movement and expressions beforehand using a real actor, and then project the images frame-by-frame while filming the stop-motion. I'm sure it must have been done before, but it was a huge learning curve for me and looks much more sophisticated than the other techniques I had tried. It reminds me of pixellation animation such as Angry Kid and Tom Thumb.




Face-paint to help define features more strongly.




Contact sheet on the OHP.










The head is made from clay and has a nose, ears and depressions around the eye areas, but otherwise it is blank.

Doritos competition entry