Ok everyone for the month of October let's try this challenge for our animation exercise:

"turn your puppet 180 degrees"

I hope to see all of you submit something. Please upload it anywhere you wish but place a link to the video under this topic. Thanks and enjoy.

I've just finished making the set for 'puppet uses a lever' so I'm going a bit overtime with it. I still need to make the puppet too! I'll post a pic of the set soon

Take your time Nofby, these are meant to help and to give you ideas on something to animate. I look forward to seeing your project.

here is my entry for October....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyeySfCVdKc

I'm really impressed Castle, I love that crazy puppet!

(^  a lever that  forces something to flip 180 might be  a nice way to  dbble up and hit deadline.

(^ i cheated on the lever bit and  found resource material.

(^ for the 180 degrees of seperation?  i decided to make my sister inlaw into a camera puppet.

(^ again. I'm testing the waters. 

to me, humane human manipulation is almost HARDER yet more fullfilling in ways I can't explain.

when I first saw october's challenge, all I kept seeing was spin the bottleneck.

(^ i mean SPIN. but flip is harder.takes less shaky hands.

(^ FLAPJACKS!  pancakes!

 wrist action tossing using the panhandle as a lever but perhaps that's mixing it up a bit too much.

(^ real hard that.flipping burgers.

Hi everybody,

I've submitted my October challenge: my puppet turned 180 degrees (well, 360 actually).

Thanks for the challenge Castle, it got me going again!

http://www.stopmotionmagic.com/videos/id_444/

(^ does spinning a pumpkin count? (joke)

(^ or can we make it a MENTAL turn of 180 degrees?

(^ like  all of a sudden the puppet realises  they need backtrack for some reason.

 lost keys... child running wrong dirrection..  paranoid  look over shoulder

(^ GASP! is someone following me?!

(^ kNOwPE?  : .. shigh slump shuffle off kicking can.

any interpretation of the assignment is fine with me....

OK.

my two cents.

http://www.stopmotionmagic.com/videos/id_449/title_october-challenge/