“We can rebuild her… We have the technology… We know the way!”
A few months ago I ripped apart a Moana doll and made it into a stop-motion puppet using a kinetic armature kit.
The walk cycle above was the first thing I animated with this puppet, and was just a throw-away practice test with no green screen. I had never done a walk cycle in stop-motion before and soon discovered how difficult animating a straight-ahead cycle within a localized space with no retakes could be.
I showed the cycle to my dad while he was holding my Moana puppet in his hand and he seemed more impressed with this crappy test than the actual animation I did on the movie! I think the combination of him holding the puppet, and then seeing it come to life on the video before him was what blew him away. I guess that’s the appeal and magic of stop-motion. 🙂
Here’s a second test I animated for fun:
I read that it’s best to have the foot joints nice and tight to hold the weight of the puppet, and have the arms looser. It’s amazing how much weight those toe and foot ball-joints could hold for the falling poses:
Do you ever think about like the absolute level of fuckery that happened through this countries history with black people and you just can’t breath?
I feel like it comes on in waves sometimes and I sit and like dry heave and cry because I was so fortunate to be alive 150 years later than those who were not lucky at all
And my heart just it fucks feels like it’s tearing to think of how living in the south as a black man was almost a death sentence and how common it was for black bodies to swing from trees for a song to be written about it
How my great grand uncle was caught looking at a white woman and was dragged by his feet with a car until his head almost exploded
And I think about that scene from the movie where the guy went around preaching to make slaves more compliant and they knocked out their teeth to make them eat and I feel violentally sick
I won’t lie, the first time I watched that movie I didn’t let my husband touch me for the rest of the day and I sat and cried my eyes out while he watched looking absolutely helpless
Up to 200 children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico
border are being held in this tent city outside Tornillo, Texas:
just in case anyone doesn’t already know what it looked like, this is the aerial view of auschwitz I:
feel free to compare that to the pictures above.
oh hey guys remember that time i and almost every other jewish person i know was like “trump is literally going to make concentration camps” and all the white christian people were like
“it’ll be fine”
“That’s what Checks and Balances™️ are for :))))”
“It can’t happen here this is AMERICA”
”We just need to survive the four years until Kamala Harris”
Like….not to be r u d e but 1) you were wrong and 2) there are mass protests on June 30th and if you actually care about this country your ass had better be there.
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