by abstractgrant | 3 Apr 2013 | naomi robot
Naomi doesn’t just bob up and down when she walks. She also moves side to side with each step, moving her body in an arc but always keeping her head vertical. This is a style of puppet walking that Tim Gosley taught me; he called it “the Mokey...
by abstractgrant | 1 Mar 2013 | naomi robot
My Dad, pictured above, has been awesome about letting me come over and helping me work on the Naomi robot. The motor came with threaded holes for putting screws into, but none of the hardware stores I visited had screws that were small enough. But the gentleman...
by abstractgrant | 1 Feb 2013 | naomi robot
In one of the special features on the Corpse Bride DVD, the stop-motion animators describe the process of animating a character whose dress extends all the way to the floor. The character is built without legs; instead, she is supported by a rig underneath the...
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