• Robot Chicken- How Do They Do It?
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Alright, I'm pretty sure a LOT of people on here have seen Robot Chicken or shows like it. I was wondering how the hell they made that show, do they have to go through it like a claymation? (Move, take picture, move again, repeat) I don't see how they get the figures to stand up and stuff, I mean I know they have an entire group of people who are trained in making this stuff work. But how do they do it? Also, how do they do the little mouths moving and stuff? I have all of the Adobe programs, could I technically be able to make my own mini episode similar to RBC if I have all of this? Sorry if this is a stupid question, but there are a lot of things I just don't get when it comes to making productions such as this and cartoons. (Don't even get me started on cartoons, lol).
Pretty sure much of it is frame by frame, all you need is a good tripod, a table/set area and patience. In vid tech we made a 5 minute mini movie with legos and a camera, took about 3 weeks for a group of 4 people working around an hour a day. 15-20 frames per second is good 30 looks smooth and no jerking, 60 will take nearly forever. Also take multiple pictures per frame, and choose the ones which fit together best. About the moving mouths, that is more work than i would want to think of on small scale.
all the puppets have either string or metallic skeletons. this allows them to stay up. mouths are simply paper pasted on, and i guess everything else is computer animation.
Frame by frame. They slightly move them then take a picture. They have teams that consist of animators that are trained to do this. They also have a selection of pre-drawn mouths that they stick on. [editline]04:38AM[/editline] In other words, stop-motion animation.
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