Stop Motion: Craft Skills for Model Animation, 2nd Edition

chapter 6

model makers – the professionals

chaptersummary

•   the maquette •   ball-and-socket armature •   mould making – hard and soft moulds •   casting •   coloring •   costumes/dressing •   model-making masterclass – ScaryCat Studio and the Duracell bunny •   glossary of model-making materials

For professional animation, a model-making company like the UK's Mackinnon & Saunders work from the animator's sketches and then make a 3D maquette, a blueprint from which they make moulds to make the models. Mackinnon & Saunders started working with Cosgrove Hall Films in Manchester in the 1970s. At Cosgrove Hall, they learned their trade as the company developed and grew. Many techniques we all use today were developed at Cosgrove Hall, and ...