Stop-Motion Character Animation

I partnered with Hong-Ly Nguyen to create this stop-motion assignment.  The idea of a video of Harlem Shake sounded entertaining and fun, so we ended up going with that.

We used various stuffed animals and planned out the positioning and type of dance pattern for each character.  The first half of the video with the one character, it was sort of like a sliding walk (or a moonwalk-esque type dance).  Hong-Ly would pose the characters for each different frame (by moving some one-by-one or using string for others) while I took each picture with a camera on a tripod.

After shooting, we had to edit some visible parts out (hand and forearm) in the first half of the video in Photoshop, then we put the photos together and added the music in Adobe Premiere.