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Meet Stickybones, a Highly-Articulated Puppet That Makes Animating a Whole Lot Easier1 min read

14 March 2016 < 1 min read

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Meet Stickybones, a Highly-Articulated Puppet That Makes Animating a Whole Lot Easier1 min read

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Working in animation has plenty of challenges, one of the bigger ones being that your subjects aren’t real and must be fabricated out of nothing.
If you’ve ever animated something, whether by illustrating by hand or crafting and adjusting puppets for stop-motion, you know how difficult it is to find a good model, one that can be put into virtually any pose you want and provide a reference for human gesticulations and movements in 3D.

That’s where Stickybones comes in. Co-created by character animator Erik Baker, this highly-articulated puppet allows artists, animators, and other creatives to easily manipulate it into precisely the pose they want, no tie-downs or rigs required. This means that animators can use Stickybones for stop-motion, artists can use it as a model, and people like me, who don’t animate or paint/draw/sculpt, can use it just to amuse themselves. And seeing as it raised nearly half a million dollars on Indiegogo, which was 557% more than their original goal, clearly there is quite the demand.

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via: No Film School

Image Credit: Stickybones

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