Fluffy Mugs!

Ok so since my last post we've progressed pretty far since. We've almost finished the final cut...then there's just a bit of flapping about on After Effects.
We aren't at that stage yet and anyway I was planning to talk a bit about the fluffy mugs I had to make for the animation.

You get the idea...

I made these for the animation as after all it is about the DADA movement and one of the artists at the time like to make fluffy cutlery so tadaah! They are made out of pieces of Tropicana juice boxes, fake fur, thread, glue and staples. Oh and they were sprayed with hair spray so that when they were handeled in the animation prosses the fur would not shift. If I had not done that the fur would just appear to flinch and twitch randomly as if on their own accord. Ya see? I thinks about these things.

I should maybe try talking a little more about how we've been working. Well this stop motion animation works on four tears. The bottom is a sheet of rotating newspaper which, as we can rotate in a loop, easily gives the illusion of an endless stream of newspaper. The next three tears consist of glass. We then place the props on the glass an animate them accordingly. Above that is the camera stand.
Usually when we get round to the actual animation one person is in charge of the camera, another animating the props and the third person rotates the newspaper. We then swap round every so often. And that dudes is our method.