Coming next in the end of March - April first - Dragon Ball episode 2

2013 Most Wanted stop motion Survey!!

2013 Most Wanted Stop Motion video survey, vote your favorite anime in the left side vote area of the page, this will help me decide what videos to make first in this year, thanks for the huge support and wish you all have a great day.

Dragon Ball stop motion - Piccolo VS Trunks

Hello guys, finally, Dragon ball Z stop motion!, I am really excited making this video, as I am always a big fan of dragon ball since I was a child, and thanks to SHF nice Dragon ball figures, I can finally make my dream comes true. Please check first the video as below :

In the below pictures, I will show some behind the scenes and tricks.

The entire video was filmed on my bedrooms floor

Then the action figure from SHF, Trunks was really a nice figure with a lot of accesories

to change the face expressions and hand pose

Piccolo is a little less in accessories, so sometimes I need to draw by my self the 

facial expressions on Photoshop. 

Tools I use are very easy to find in the market. 

Large tools to hold camera or the toy itself

The flying at the start is green screen  

Some of the scenes I use my hand to hold them and then erase in photoshop

Facial expressions, if there is no enough face to match the figure head, 

I will cut them in another head and combined them in software. 

Below are some of the scenes for the next episode, 

the fight will be more faster and closer. 

Here is all for today, I will be finalizing the second part soon, and hope you guys enjoy the show. 

Thanks for watching :D

Regards

John H.

Armored Core stop motion

Hello everyone, this is a new video I made to participate The LA machinima interactive festival,
this time I use Armored Core figures for the video, this video took me around 30 days of production
and 2500 pictures combined.

Please check the video as below:

The battle field, in my room's floor, I use toy boxes to be the walls. 

There are 4 Armored core figures in this video,

each is around USD$35

The boss of this stage :D

Some modifications I make for the main character, 

I use black model pen to paint and draw the lines of the hero.

The articulation and joints of Armored core models is very 

fragile, I need to glue them to prevent falling parts

Some explosion scenes I use LED light, this makes explosions looks more 

real when you apply computer effects to it

Some robot flying scenes I use my hand to hold it and 

then erase it with photoshop. 

Heres is all the secrets in this video, as for the next, 

Dragon Ball Z!!, thank you for watching and see you next time 

on next video. 

Best regards

John H.

Lego Stop motion - Superman and Wonder woman

This is my new video with Lego, its a fight between Superman and his enemy Lex Luthor, the entire video took me 1 month of production and around 3000 pictures. Lets see the below now:

Below are some of the behind the scenes pictures

The entire fighting stage is on top of wooden bed, 

this is how the street looks like

Back of the building, some fake trees and rocks

The cloud is actually blue wall papers

Wonder woman and her weapon, the rope, 

its actually a telephone wire

Some of the Superman flying scenes are just like below, 

holding it with some support and erase with software. 

Another solution for flying objects is of course 

the green screen skill.

And here is it, all the secrets of the video, as you can see, 

its not anything difficult, those skill I am sure you can find a lot of 

tutorials in the internet for the above skills. 

Hope you guys enjoy the video, and see you next time on next video. 

Regards

John H.

Gundam stop motion dance - Gundam Style !!

New video cooperate with Animeme.

around 10 days of production and 600 pictures.

The dancing field is in my rooms floor

All gundams was posed by tape

Problems during the filming, broken joints.

Spider-man VS Green Goblin stop motion

Hello everyone, it has been a while since my last video, this video just finished was a video 

I partner up with NAGOO TV in Taiwan, and this time I use 12 inch doll from Hot toys, 

very expensive toys but very cool and detailed. 

Please check the video first as below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWqaXw0Vb48

Next comes the behind the scenes pictures 

first of all the picture of the two characters

Now Spiderman, it has many replacement hand

The Green Goblin does not have too many replacement hands but it has

many small parts and devices.

The fighting stage is below my working desk

The web, actually there comes some plastic web sticks in the Spiderman box, 

but there are not visible and well handle to make video, so I put another plastic 

bag in the surface of the web to make it more easier to use and hold.

Some of the scene that Spiderman hold the web and swing is actually holding the web, 

I position the web in a high location and this location will be the center of the entire swing movement. 

its like a holding point to stable the whole movement. 

As usual, many of the scenes I grab the toy with my hand and then 

erase it on photoshop.

Spideman in the sky and the skateboard on top of a bottle

If the movement is too difficult, I will choose to use green screen. 

The whole video took me around 2 weeks or production time and 

nearly 1000 pictures. 

The skills of my videos are very simple, just need some time for practice and 

everyone can do it. 

Well, this is all for today, thanks for watching and see you guys next time on next video. 

Best regards

John H.