For this weeks task, we had to move the puppets from one side of the stage to the other by making it walk. This was quite a challanging task in many ways. Tightening the joints on the puppet was essential at the start, although I still experienced some issued with falling over later on in the walk as the hips or ankle came loose. You can see where this happens as in some cases the clothes make large adjustments between frames.
For my first walk, while I followed all of the steps with the legs, I think I failed to recognise where the body moves up and down. I also didn't quite get the pacing right, so the puppet seems to jog across the screen before slowing and coming to a stop. In a couple of instances, the foot looks like it's slipping backwards as the puppet moves, which shouldn't be the case.
For the second walk, I moved the puppet in the opposite direction. I exaggerated the movements a bit more, although this did mean I wasn't able to get in as many paces across the stop motion stage. On the second step I can see that the foot flops a little too much, making the action more cartoon like than realistic. In this attempt however, I feel I managed to set the pace better and also get each movement in the correct position so that the head goes up and down as it is supposed to.
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