Stop Motion Animation of Falling

 

  I decided to do my own stop-motion animated version of the original story of Humpty Dumpty, a nursery rhyme first heard in 1870 through James William Elliott's National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs. The way I created this stop motion animation turned out to be a way more complicated process then it should have been. Since the animation involved an egg, I was not able to use a string since it was not strong enough. Therefore, I had to use clear Ducktape in order to keep the uncooked egg suspended in the air and in the poses that I wanted it to be in. I used my camera on a tripod and timer on each photo. Since you could clearly see the duck tape and my hands in all of the photos, I had to then go into Photoshop and use the clone tool and brushes to realistically blend it with the background (kitchen) as best as I could. Finally, in Photoshop, I ended up drawing a face and arms digitally in order to give life to the poor egg.  After I had all the shots that I wanted, I brought all of my photos into iMovie and played around with the timing of each frame. It was a complicated, but overall fun process!