Stop Motion ~ "Road Kill Flowers"

This is a web version of the stop mo' short film experiment.

This time I converted the AVI file to an FLV and uploaded to Blip.tv.





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I think the most challenging part of making a stop motion film is animating the pauses (the 'mah'). There is such a compulsion to move the puppet on every frame when in the animating groove. This film could have used a pause, a moment of reflection, once the bird is buried. So the puppet doesn't die, an eye movement and maybe pushing some facial clay into a subtle expression change would have worked.