Because the puppet is made up of the original designs, there is no need to worry about staying on model. Your character is designed as separate body parts and joined together as seamlessly as possible. Rigged animation is an extension of cutout animation. Instead of limiting the character’s movement, we can maintain its fluidity by switching to rigged puppet animation. You can see this approach being used extensively in cel-animated series like Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? So, what can you do? One solution has been to limit the character’s movement, animating only certain body parts while others remain static. And you might find that it requires a larger budget or a longer schedule than is possible on every project. Then you remember the schedule and the budget.Īnimating is a production paradox because, artistically, the world is your oyster – but getting the pearl out of that oyster takes ages. When you’re animating a character frame-by-frame, hand-drawing each frame, it feels like the only limit is your imagination.
