Dying Over Dice ~ Box-on-Carpet Claymation Short (#qStopMotion)

Dying Over Dice ~ Box-on-Carpet Claymation Short (#qStopMotion)

Two human people props are knocking each other out over a block of dice they've encountered.

This was animated inside of a plastered box on top of the carpet flooring inside of my Claymation "studio" (A.K.A. my room). The lighting was done with a desk lantern from atop my PC's table and shone into the box from above. The 2nd Georgia Placid model and original Kim Possible prop had been used in this short. The webcam was mounted on the side of the box and tilted up and down for scaling effects.

This video is almost as long as Red Sped Dread, which doesn't surprise me since each of the two take at least an hour or two in the entirety of their filming. I do hope to be able to animate more efficiently both in faster production and more smooth sculpting and/or fluid animation but so far I'm just glad I got to experiment with the different stages to animate onto as of late (even if unexpected). For this one, its more about the closeups and airborne animation and I like that I wasn't cheated out of the fact that the modeling clay got wearier over time and got harder to shift properly, I found some illusions around that in this, but later on I may need better clay's.

Special thanks to the Newtubers community (at least on Discord, I have yet to try out their subreddit even though that's how I found the Discord server at first lol) for giving me advice and support on my stopmotion films and overall content creation progress.

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Twitter: Otto Crosswind @nodetact
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