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Puppets & Armatures

Everything in the school that teaches Puppets & Armatures, across one department.

23 lessons · 6h 33m · Stop Motion

Lessons on Puppets & Armatures

Adam Savage Learns How Modern Stop-Motion Puppets Are Made — Adam Savage’s Tested · 14m · Advanced
How to Make Wire Armatures for Stop Motion Puppets — Animateclay · 53m · Intermediate
How Animators Created Oscar-Winning Stop Motion In Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio | Vanity Fair — Vanity Fair · 13m · Advanced
Andy Gent on Crafting 1,100 Puppets for Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs | D&AD Festival 2024 — D&AD - Creative Advertising, Design and Digital · 10m · Advanced
Behind the Scenes of ParaNorman: Hand-Making Characters | LAIKA Studios — LAIKA Studios · 6m · Advanced
Inside the Stop-Motion Technology of Laika's Coraline — Adam Savage’s Tested · 18m · Advanced
Behind the Scenes: Rebuilding the Coraline Puppet | LAIKA Studios — LAIKA Studios · 12m · Intermediate
Stop Motion Tutorial: Making an Armature — Michael Parks · 13m · Beginner
The Stop-Motion Puppets of Laika Animation Studio! — Adam Savage’s Tested · 6m · Beginner
Adam Savage Meets the Original ED-209 From RoboCop! — Adam Savage’s Tested · 23m · Intermediate
Behind the scenes of how Aardman animated Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget | BAFTA On Set — BAFTA · 13m · Intermediate
Cranbersher's Guide to Stop Motion | Felt Puppets: The Armature — Cranbersher · 8m · Beginner
Deb Cook Revisits the Costumes of Coraline's Other Mother | LAIKA Archives — LAIKA Studios · 11m · Intermediate
What Shaun The Sheep Is Actually Made Of! Behind the Scenes on The Beast of Mossy Bottom | BAFTA — BAFTA · 26m · Intermediate
How to make wire armatures for stop motion — edu puertas · 8m · Beginner
Inside Puppetry: LAIKA Stop-Motion & Project Hail Mary’s Rocky — LAIKA Studios · 50m · Intermediate
Stop motion puppet armature building process — edu puertas · 10m · Intermediate
Cheap and Easy Armature! | Stop Motion Tutorial — DofWorksAnimation · 26m · Beginner
Crafting Pinocchio—Guillermo del Toro's Stop-Motion Masterpiece! — Adam Savage’s Tested · 20m · Intermediate
Where are the Rudolph Stop-Motion Puppets? — LSuperSonicQ · 21m · Beginner
[Stop motion] How to make a Puppet | Wire Armature & Wool felt Body — JoWingStudio · 9m · Beginner
Isle of dogs - Puppet & set makers interview — edu puertas · 17m · Intermediate
ROBOCOP Featurette - "Animating ED-209" (1987) — JoBlo Behind-the-Scenes + Bloopers · 6m · Intermediate

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Stop Motion

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