Poppinz

This is Poppinz. He came into my mind when I was itching to do some animation.

Admittedly, cell animation is much more my forte. But someone slipped some plasticine into my drink late one evening and I decided stop motion was something I had to try.

I began building Robotville out of cardboard boxes and dollhouse furniture from the dollar store. I built two sets, one being the main road in Robotville and the second being Poppinz's bedroom:





In the meantime, my super duper brother got down and dirty with some fimo and started creating our background actors [featured above].

Poppinz himself was built by first making a wire armature [the things you never thought you could do with a coat hanger], and baking layers of fimo on top. We filmed across three crazy deadline making days.

Thanks to Redbull, cigarettes, my brother's apartment, my brother, learning Avid the day of, and an unexplainable childhood dream to be an animator, Poppinz came to life.

I will never forget holding up a plastic ruler at 3 AM to try and remember how far we moved Poppinz... The insanity is still in our eyes.

POPPINZ UPLOAD IS COMING SOON.