Animation competition claymation

I have been busy preparing characters for this short advert decided on a simple white back drop and soft lighting created from Some white canvas and basic desk lamps and home made tracing paper (shops were closed !) There is a not much time to do this Animation as the deadline is 15/ Nov/ 11 

Here are some images of my pre-production work.

                                         Here  is my humble Studio ( Summer House\Shed)

I'm using a Nikon D500 camera

I have added a third light for back lighting, which is not shown here. And tracing paper as defuseses for the bright lights. 

I made the eyes out of plastic beads sprayed white and then painted  a Black pupil on. The hole is great for turning eyes in different directions using a cocktail stick when Animating.

These little characters are set up to look like they are sitting in Petri dishes in a lab (they are in fact up turned muffin case packaging lids) the original plan was to green screen these guys and place a Lab back drop image in seen later but i like the clear white back ground and am on a short deadline
enjou and will post clip when production is complete.









Have just purchased Stop Motion Pro HD Action So that i Can use the live view software and also do without the Water mark you find with the trail version. will post more shortly.