@flanneldonut
The stop motion process is always fascinating to me.
ALOT goes into production: storyboarding, animatics, set design, character design, puppet fabrication, painting, modeling, lighting--it really pulls in every single art form and unites them all in production.
Here, for our launch of $STOPMO in partnership with @clanker a handful of months ago, Oscar winner Suzanne Twining (Coraline, ParaNorman, Wendell & Wild, etc) used a downshooter, which means the camera is suspended above her and everything is animated on its side using rigs and stands.
Below, I've included the animatic as well, which is essential to production. In stop motion, an entire days work yields roughly 3-5 seconds of useable footage, which is why its important to clearly map out whats happening in the scene so animators aren't wasting time animating something that will not get used, hereby eliminating "cutting room floor" waste so to speak.