Animation Crab Shot

In this shot they are walking along the beach and Sophie spots a shell and picks it up to her surprise the Sand Troll turns it in to a crab.

I used one of the shells I found on the beach and glued wire for the legs and paper mached them.

I also did a bit of research in to crabs.

This is what it looked like in the end when I painted it.

I was really worried about how I was going to animate it because it is so small. I went online to see if I could research how they walked.

In the end it worked out really well. They way I animated walking was by squishing together and squishing it flat, making the legs stretch out and close in.