Stop-Motion Character Animation

I started with planning the story and picked a few dolls I had as my characters. In the end I went with a simple story and started to do some test tries. Setting up the "tripod" was the hardest part since I don't have one so I had to pile up boxes upon boxes to get the height I wanted and then set my phone leaning on a wooden block before I can start animating. It was difficult using dolls since you can't pose their arms or legs well. So what I did instead was use tape especially when the blue penguin or (Piplup) raises his arms. The falling and tumbling motion was hard too. I had originally planned to photoshop myself out of that frame, but one thing led to another and I didn't have the time to do the final edit. I had a great time doing stop motion character animation in the end.