Someone on stopmotionanimation.com message board posted the URL of a music video by Bowerbirds a while ago. There is an amazing crow puppet here. He said that he made the armature for the wings. I asked him if he could send me some photos of the puppet before it was foamed and feathered -which he offered in the first place- but he could never get back to me. I love the puppets, animation, effects, music… just everything here.
Thanks to that person who showed me this video and kudos to him & every other people who worked on this music video!
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There’s a lot of undiscovered stuff out there that is full of talent. The animation in this is so powerful! I remember watching this the first time (from the post you mentioned) and not appreciating it as it should be. Thanks for posting this again… really cool stuff
Yeah Tony, they have great use of stop motion animation techniques and puppet making. Thanks for the comment!
Yes, I had missed this video too….thanks for the link!
very cool and directly relatable to your film……excited as always to follow your progress.
jriggity
Justin, when I was working on Kush, I could not find a bird puppet animation as good as this one. You know, I am doing all these for the first time and seeing good samples help a lot. I will be referring back here when I am animating the bird for the film. Thank you for the comment and following my progress.
thanks for sharing this!