I worked in a two man group with Kevin Truong to make this Stop-Motion animation. Both of us provided one figure each to play as the main leads in this short. Initially, we drew out some storyboards of what we would roughly like the short to look like. However, we made the common mistake of over complicating the scenes, and as a result many scenes had the characters in incredibly unbalanced/exaggerated poses that just weren't possible to maintain with the limited equipment we had (the flimsy stands that come with the toys that often moved out of place or dropped the character during posing). Therefore, we cut down or simplified many of the scenes and broke the short down into the key story ideas only.
I was in charge of posing the figures, and Kevin took care of the snapping the photos. After the shooting was completed, I compiled the images into a video in Quicktime and helped Kevin queue the audio to end at the same time the animation ends.
Overall, stop-motion is definitely the most challenging form of animation because there are so many factors that can go wrong (such as the figures falling over). However, there is a sense of accomplishment when one see's their toys come to life.
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