Stop-Motion Character Animation

The Mighty Duck and Lego Technic Show

 

     My brother John and I picked out two toys that have many torques as possible that can pose.  One is a toy of Check "Grin" Hardwing from Disney's Mighty Ducks.   The other is a LEGO Technic figurine of an ice skater possibly a snow native tribe character from the Bionicle series.

     John had to deal with some rotoscoping for Grin's walking since it was difficult to balance him in some movements since his legs are unsymmetrical.  The rotoscoping isn't perfect so it could be obvious to figure out which frames was edited.

     I worked on the ideas and snapping shots for the characters' movement.  John worked on moving the characters to pose the gestures according to my ideas, in a sense the two characters meet and begin their dance performance on the same stage like the theater play.   Afterwards, he compiled all the images in Adobe Photoshop and compiled them into clips in Adobe Premiere to make the music video.