{"id":2148,"date":"2015-10-16T07:20:29","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T12:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/blog\/?p=698"},"modified":"2020-07-07T12:13:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T17:13:17","slug":"suggestion-for-animation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/?p=2148","title":{"rendered":"Suggestion for Animation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/EVEcpjtg7og\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dummyshoppe\" src=\"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/wp_jetpup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/dummyshoppe.png\" width=\"450\" height=\"243\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have discussed in the past the importance of keeping<br \/>\nyour character animated to make it seem to be alive. This<br \/>\nis an important feature in holding your audiences attention<br \/>\nand keeping the audience focused on you the performer.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a suggestion that won&#8217;t cost more than about 5<br \/>\ncents. Watch this short video of one of our characters.<br \/>\nPay attention to the head movement and the corresponding<br \/>\nmovement of the characters hands.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EVEcpjtg7og\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is quite simply clear mono-filament fishing line<br \/>\ndoing all the movement of the characters hands. As the<br \/>\nhead moves, bobs, jerks or whatever, the hands also move.<\/p>\n<p>It is very easy to do. Start with about 30&#8243; of thin clear<br \/>\nfishing line. Most of us don&#8217;t have to buy any, just cut<br \/>\noff about that much from your fishing pole. (Make sure<br \/>\nthat you leave the hook with the pole.) Make a loop at one<br \/>\nend of the line that is big enough to slide easily over the<br \/>\npuppets hand. This way if you don&#8217;t want to use the<br \/>\nmovement for some reason, you can very quickly disconnect<br \/>\nthe line from the hand. When you slide the loop over the<br \/>\nhand, let it rest as close as practical to the hand, but<br \/>\nhave it on the puppets wrist.<\/p>\n<p>Then position the puppets hand in the middle of the range<br \/>\nyou want the hand to travel and hold it in that position.<br \/>\nHave someone hold the puppets head straight up and with<br \/>\nyour other hand take the line and hold it up next to the<br \/>\npuppets ear. This way you will be able to tell the<br \/>\napproximate length you need. Now tie a loop on the other<br \/>\nend of the line and loop it over the puppets ear. (You can<br \/>\nsew it into the puppets earlobe if you wish, but for now we<br \/>\nrecommend that you just hang it off the ear).<\/p>\n<p>With the line looped over both the wrist and the ear, put<br \/>\nyour hand in the puppet and have a little conversation with<br \/>\nthe puppet. You will see that as you move the head from<br \/>\nside to side that the puppets hand will also move with the<br \/>\nhead. Since your audience cannot see the line, they just<br \/>\nassume that the hand is moving by itself.<\/p>\n<p>If, for instance you are using a left armrod, then only<br \/>\nput the line on the right wrist\/ear so that you can<br \/>\ncontinue to use the left armrod for more specific<br \/>\nmovements. If you are not using an armrod, put the line on<br \/>\nboth wrists\/ears. Play around with the concept. You may<br \/>\njust find that we have given you an effective new tool for<br \/>\nanimation.<\/p>\n<p>Until next time,<\/p>\n<p>Steve &amp; JET<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have discussed in the past the importance of keeping your character animated to make it seem to be alive.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,60,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hints-and-tips","category-puppets","category-ventriloquism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3347,"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148\/revisions\/3347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}