Animation Process

This is the first time I've animated on the floor, as I'm use to using big puppets on tables. So this caused some new challenges, which involved the characters, camera and my position.

The first challenge was the characters. They are very small and had habits of falling over. Because the characters didn't have bendable parts I decided to do a more comical walk, making the characters shuffle, which worked really well. This technique was used with the sheep as well.

The other challenge was working on the floor. I normally use a full size tripod, but had to use a tiny tripod or even just popping the camera on the floor.