Back in the day, my mom worked at Fisher Price. Part of her
work involved the production of Little People videos, which were moral-heavy
videos featuring your favorite Little People characters and created in
stop-motion. My mom worked mostly as an editor during preproduction, where she
would go through the storyboards and animatics checking for continuity. A lot
of times, she would bring her work home, where my brother and I would
participate in continuity-hunting. We would go through the animatics and point
out anything that confused us or didn’t make sense to us, offering a kid’s
point of view for a video geared to kids. My mom would take pages and pages of
notes on these episodes that rarely hit 10 minutes. I remember it being really
cool to see the final product a few weeks later—the transition from animatics
to full animation was pretty impressive.
These two YouTube videos are a culmination of a few episodes
found on one VHS. Upon watching them as a not-child, I recognize they’re a bit
silly, but still enjoyable:
Also upon watching these videos again, I was impressed by
some of the “up in the air” shots—flying, jumping, etc. I didn’t really know
how those types of shots were done, as we obviously cannot see a rig of sorts.
I then found a video on Motiongrapher called Plasticine Rhythm by Andy Martin that features a
making of video that briefly explains how these shots can be attained. Once
explained, it gives me hope for doing stop motion in the future:
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