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Vimeo videos

2009-03-20T17:48:00.000-07:00

To see higher quality videos since today on Im gonna put them on Vimeo which is a better quality site in which you can upload at the best resolution ever, this is a link for the description of my set on my stop-motion. have a look and comment here then, thanks i would appreciate it a lot. and from that page you can also see more of my videos:
http://www.vimeo.com/3633054

I m back with more motivation than before

2009-03-20T17:26:00.000-07:00

Hello Guys, it's been ages since last time I posted something, I had time I thought I would thrown everything away and I was so up-set about stop-motion and everything that I would make a fire with it. But after all that, i came up with new ideas and characters to keep animating my own thing. I did a lot of progress also reading that book i had as a present from my lovely girlfriend, I m dreaming to work in stop-motion animation and all about it. I find "Pingu" the english stop-motion animation for children very nice and clever the way it's done and very stylish, I would like to do something like that as job, a nice and clever series even though my genre would be a nice dark horror but not so scary.

Hello i m getting some muscle now

2008-08-17T04:07:00.000-07:00

Hello...i m trying now to put some coverture to the armature but the most difficult part will be to find clothing for him, i have been looking in many shops in Cork but seems very impossible to find man dolls to get it from. I also tried to see how the lighting will look like and i m posting some picture to show it.thanks
Cristian Paradiso

HERE I AM...COMPLETED

2008-08-16T09:54:00.000-07:00

Hello guys finally one small part of all is complete. have a look to the entire armature before i ll start to dress it up. I love it!! : )

2008-08-15T14:48:00.001-07:00

If somebody are interested these are my Armature's suppliers: http://www.animationsupplies.net/

Some more picture

2008-08-15T14:00:00.000-07:00

Hello friends the Armature is growing step by step, and soon the character will take shape. there you are some picture of rOBBi. thanks to read it!! In one of the picture is shown the lightining in my small set in another its shown the making of the armature starting from an Autocad sketch i made myself seeing that the instructions were for a bigger character. And another picture shows the armature almost complete. I hope you all enjoy byee
Cristian Paradiso

its moving!

2008-08-11T06:58:00.000-07:00

Hi there have a look to MOMA trying to move. its just 2 second but have a look

"A big Surprise"

2008-08-02T05:10:00.000-07:00

Hi stop-fellas....How is getting on with stop motion? did you make any stop-motion movie yet? I had a big surprise fro my wonderful girlfriend yesterday for my birthday, i got a beautiful ARMATURE! I could'nt believe what i was seeing a real an good quality armature....SO If I had an excuse to dont keep working on my stop-motion...now i have no reason to dont start to work on it. I want post some pictures of my not-built armature. Sorry i forgot that i also had a great book about stop-motion and i can't wait to read it and get started. Thanks stop-fellas i will keep you informed about my stop-motion movie, now we have also a Writer and great help from "Maciek".

WELCOME ON BOARD MACIEK

2008-07-30T05:41:00.000-07:00

Hi there stop-motion friends, I finally found a friend that probably will help me in the developing of my stop-motion animation, "Hello Maciek" welcome on board and I hope you will enjoy very much in what we will be doing.
Cristian Paradiso

2008-06-29T07:55:00.000-07:00

These are few objects, two of them are made by FIMO the rest are again things found on markets

2008-06-29T07:45:00.001-07:00

This is a couch which i bought in a seondhand shop for few cents and then i covered with a tissue bought it in a artistic shop. thanks
Cristian Paradiso

"This is a nice CHAIR"

2008-06-29T05:37:00.000-07:00

Hi stop-friend this is a chair of my set that i wanted to show you, is perfectly fit to my animation and i found it in LIDL shop in Cork the past year, it is very good have a look everywhere for pieces that can sui to your project, sometime in secondhand market you can find very old stuff but very stylish. Thanks
Cristian Paraddiso

Just say HELLO

2008-06-28T13:31:00.000-07:00

Hi stop-fellas, how are things?? i haven't post since ages and i just wanted to say that i m still here and i will post many things on Monday, i m planning to put lots of pictures of my set and make a plan about my future movie. So stay in touch dont miss it! bye

I need help to make up the story...

2008-06-25T17:05:00.000-07:00

Hello stop-fellas where are you? I need you this time cause I have an idea about my future movie but I would like to develop it with someone of you, I will finish my three characters and the room where the scenes will be made. So I just need some help to develop the story, it should be a kind of horror story. Moma is the mother Bibo is the 3 years old child and Robert is the husband. The story is about Bibo immagination...Moma on dinner time send Bibo to take a wine bottle from the cellar downstair and he refuse because he knows there will be his imaginary monster...So that's the overall story. So let's help me please I m looking a friend that can help me since ages....thanks
Cristian Paradiso

HOW TO MAKE A CHEAP PUPPET ARMATURE

2008-06-25T03:57:00.001-07:00

Hi stop-motion friends, how are you? Did you think to make some movie? any idea? ok let's start with a really important piece of the Stop-motion. The first thing we need to make, unless you are using only plastiline (wich is great) is the "armature". A good armature makes the things easier and the movie smoother. So let's start to understand wich armature suits to our animation. If you have enough money I suggest to buy a ready made armature. there is plenty of armatures out there on the web, they are beautiful, perfect, smooth but also very expensive. I would like to buy a good armature, but being a hand maker lover I also like to make it on my own. The tools we need are: wire cable, 1 cm screws, their bold, a small spring (you can take from the biro the one you press to open and close) and some immediate power glue (as the Attack) then you need some FIMO, that is that kind of polymeric clay that once cooked in the oven become a strong and light plastic. Then you need a small grab to blend the wires and that's it. In the armature i have made in the picture above you will see more or less how it works. I've tried to reproduce all the movements making almost all the real articulations of the human body to make the puppet moving very well. To reproduce the musculature i put a stripe of a light sponge sheet because now the problem is not to make the armature heavy so it is good to find the lightest materials possible. The spring helps to keep the articulations tight and fluid, allowing the bolt to a little movement without loosening up. With a biro's spring you ca make about 6/7 small springs for the joints. the picture abobe shows a detail of a joint.
Thanks for the attention
Cristian Paradiso

my first character "moma"

2008-06-25T03:05:00.000-07:00

Hi stop-fellas. Today i m introducing my first and main character of my future animation, she is the mum and and a wife of a strange 3 members family. This character was very complicated to built it, the idea for this puppet was avoiding the walking process let her sliding instead. I have made a base very heavy(it is a toilet paper roll filled with screws and filled with wax to make it very heavy) in order to avoiding big movement when you need to move it for the scenes, the torso is made with the armature shown before and finally the most difficult part was the face: it is made by a great material that you can model and after dryed is extremely light perfect for the purpose. sometime i ll put a sketch how is made inside. the eyes are made with FIMO and they have a hole in the black part which allow me to move and rotate by a small toothpick. The hair have been attached afterward because the back part of the face needed to have holes for the eyes and for the hole that control the neck.
thanks for reading and watching.if this was usefull please let me know, comments are appreciated. :)
Cristian Paradiso

More pictures of my "Poor man armature"

2008-06-23T15:55:00.000-07:00

here it is so more picture of my Poor Man Armature, i hope you like it.
please leave comment and make me question if you want. Soon i will post pictures of my stop-motion set. bye
Cristian Paradiso

Stop Motion suggestions and tips

2008-06-22T04:07:00.000-07:00

Hello, when i started to be interested in stop-motion i was wondering wich tecnique the masters were using to make their movies, and a question i asked to myself was: How many picture they use per second? So the first thing came in my mind was to watch part of the movie just forwarding the scene frame by frame and i start to understand the tricks of the stop-motion makers. One of my favourite animations is from "Aardman studios in England" called "Wallace and Grommit" two funny characters with a great style.
I have been watching part of a movie called "A grand day out" and i cought some of the way they make the scenes, they use put the same picture in 3 frames and put a transition between the third and the fourth picture and the same for the sixth and the seventh one and so on, that generates a pleasent and stylish looking. That what they did with that movie cause one of the first, in their new movie the tecnique is changed, have a look frame by frame if you want.thanks for the attention
Cristian Paradiso

Talking about Stop-motion animation

2008-06-21T04:43:00.000-07:00

Even if i know that nowaday more or less everyone know about stop motion, I want to give a simple explanation what all is about. Stop-motion as the word suggest is a movie that is made by taking picture at a scene that is moved at any picture is taken, so: (picture- then stop, move the scene- then picture again- then stop and.......) this generates the movement of the caracters and of the scene,
Cristian Paradiso

How to....Stop motion project

2008-06-21T03:45:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone, since today on (first always sorry for my English, than....) i m starting this blog for all the people interested on stop motion and on easy way to develop it. My goal on this website is collect any kind of infos about the process of making stop-motion animation and the tools needed. I m a big lover since the best ever stop-motion movie has been made ( Nightmare before Christmas. who is interested I suggest "Harvey Crumpet" a amazing state of the art Polish animation that you ll enjoy it very much.
Cristian Paradiso