Character Puppets
February 12, 2016
In our case, animation comes down to making puppets and moving them in After Effects. To create the puppets I used references and mostly traced the outlines of the figures. Part of these figures we photographed while in London shooting on location while others come from stock pictures.
The puppets are part of the environment in that some of them came out of the backgrounds we are using in the video. The colour scheme of the puppets also came from the real world, with the exception of the caterpillar, whose colour was described in 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.' There are very few words that describe the characters visually, which makes the story interesting to adapt and to give a creators own twist to what the characters look like.
While making the puppets I've learned a lot about how to use Photoshop more efficiently. The shortcut keys are now part of my way of working, as is the adding of textures to otherwise plain shapes. The adding of textures can clearly be seen in the picture of the queen beside this text. My artistry is not the greatest, but I feel the puppets we are using to animate are sufficient for the amount of time and the experience I had when we started this project. My main goal was never to create the perfect puppet, but to create puppet that was usable and looked good. In total, 27 puppets are created to make the characters move and to add some extra interesting things to the background.
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