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BRAn act of three parts, breaking down the Masked Magician's first reveal in our stop-motion short film, Brain Space.
Here's Josh of @sculptdouble performing in a LAV (live action video) to use as reference while animating. LAVs are a great way to figure out timings and what poses work for a character. The Magician is very theatrical and elegant here, his motions are mysterious, precise and practiced and we wanted to exaggerate his swift sleight of hand. Having a character with no body opened up a lot of opportunities for us to be creative with the characters performance, however the animation rigging used to support the "floating" head and hands had to be removed from the raw footage in post production.
The real magician is @zuhairmehrali who made all of the rigging disappear for the final shots.
I've always loved finding out how magic is done and seeing behind the scenes at how films are made. It's too interesting to be kept secret. 🪄✨️
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