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.