Character Designing with Visual Approach for Puppet Animation in A Hybrid Short Animation “Ihan”

Abstract

Every animation media has their own uniqueness in terms of physical features in character designs. In stop motion animation, every character was produced by hand, resulting in some limitations in character creations that creates a unique physical features that differs them to digital animation. On the other hand, the animation process in stop motion animation takes a lot of time because every movement has to be captured frame by frame. This paper aims to explain the process of designing characters for digital animation with stop motion animation as the visual approach, so that the designed 3D digital characters will have a unique physical features like characters in puppet animations, but the production time can be cut down for efficiency because the process was done digitally. The output of the design will hopefully ease the character model and rig process in the next step.