DX9 D-10 Hanzo Transformation Sequence

Stop-Motion Transformation of DX9 D-10 Hanzo. It's a fun figure. The legs and the hands are a bit tricky.

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Normal Runs
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Wolf to Spaceship: 0:09
Spaceship to Truck: 0:52
Truck to Tank: 1:18
Tank to Gun: 1:58
Gun to Robot: 2:24
Robot to Gun: 3:01
Gun to Tank: 3:43
Tank to Truck: 4:06
Truck to Spaceship: 4:47
Spaceship to Wolf: 5:13

Speed Runs
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Wolf to Spaceship: 5:53
Spaceship to Truck: 6:07
Truck to Tank: 6:15
Tank to Gun: 6:27
Gun to Robot: 6:34
Robot to Gun: 6:44
Gun to Tank: 6:56
Tank to Truck: 7:03
Truck to Spaceship: 7:14
Spaceship to Wolf: 7:22

2x Run: 7:35
End credits: 8:25

Production Note: I had pictured doing this the same way as the triple-changers, but it turns out I can’t. Like I mathematically can’t.

You see, if there are two modes, then every part has a distinct destination. So I just film that starting in one mode and going all the way to the other mode with turns at each end.

With a triple-changer, every part has from 1 to 2 destinations. Two modes might share a destination for a part, but there will always be the third mode that has that other destination for that part. So I set the figure up so that every part is where it would be in a *majority* of modes (so 2 out of 3). I call this a “primordial” form. It looks half-transformed So I shoot that by going from the primordial to one of the three modes. Some parts won’t have to move going between the two modes that have the majority. So you avoid having any parts that do absurd things like unfold and then immediately refold when moving between the particular two modes that share the position. This primordial position is, as far as I can tell, *always* possible for triple changers.
(And then I very carefully reset back to the primordial for each of the three sequences and I stitch it together in post in the pattern 1231321 to cover all six possible transiti..