Hero lights torch - stop motion exercise

More of my beginning stop motion work. The limit of the armature is helping me to determine my story more clearly. The hero has to escape a relentlessly inhuman city, and return to nature to save his soul. If not his sanity. I'll see how many hurdles I can throw in his way to make a good film.

Please check out the video here -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPzNOXURp8M&feature=youtu.be

Stop Motion Armature

Here is my most successful armature to date, still working on fleshing out the body.

Bad pun.

I'm starting out with a basic armature made from aluminum wire. Not ready for a ball and socket armature yet. I still test the movements of the armature the way I would test a Maya rig.

Here are some of the improvements I have made today:

I added more wire to reinforce the upper legs, but it's not working the way I planned. I also added a basic head made from Sculpy, but it seems a bit too large now.

Here's a clip of my first test with the armature -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nePR5yBfWuc&feature=youtu.be