Is this stop motion?

vimeo.com/35761197

At around 22 seconds and 50 seconds it looks like he's combining stop motion and "real life".
The horse is moving in normal speed, but the sugar-boy is also. Same goes when the trailer is arriving.

How did he do that?

Great spot! But nope, not stop-motion. Ingenious puppetry. According to the credits: Puppeteer: Claire Rabant

Great concept, brilliant execution.

Still can't figure how how they did that. Any clue?

My guess is mostly concealed rods, possibly also some wires/fishline that would have been rotoscoped out in post.

Have a bit of familiarity with puppets, having produced a number of videos like this for Merck Animal Health:

Ahh, perhaps the wire were green, like green screen?

Neguah wrote: …  How did he do that?

… there's one scene which indicates imho a 100% how they did: when sugar-man opens his umbrella 00:22! By no means, you animate that 'drop' at the grip by stop-motion!

So, this is a stick-puppet, like a marionette, but steered by sticks.

You stumble into a few problems: sticks have to be 'vanished', but, as mentioned before, there's a sort of 'reverse green screen' technique, I demoed here:


plus, due to natural light, you have to be very precise to avoid shadows.

That scene with the horse in the bg is perfectly 'composited' - I dare to say: a 'simple' live-recording of that scene; tons of post-production to get rid of the sticks.


here's another example, animating a puppet with sticks, not strings
ffw to 6:37min



Master Stan Winston and the Terminator
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@Neguah: wonderful find - THANK YOU for sharing! … heard-warming story, aside all that 'eye candy' (pun pah!)

Karsten: loved the reverse green sample. Simple=perfect.

Karsten Schlüter wrote:

Neguah wrote: …  How did he do that?

@Neguah: wonderful find - THANK YOU for sharing! … heard-warming story, aside all that 'eye candy' (pun pah!)

No need to thank me. I'm just searching for inspiration. My goal now is to get a 'Staff Pick'. Have made 2 vacation footages, but they are apparently not convincing enough

screendor wrote: Karsten: loved the reverse green sample. Simple=perfect.

less simple, but effectful: