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Visual FX for stopmotion- Featured artist: Tony Booth a.k.a Flash Flanker

Visual FX for stopmotion- Featured artist: Tony Booth a.k.a Flash Flanker

Visual FX for stopmotion This short called ‘Dark Soul’ is from newcomer Tony Booth a.k.a Flash Flanker. What I love about Tony’s approach here is that he instantly starts out creating a feeling that the world is off-kilter. The flashing imagery and severe lighting make the scenes fell more creepy even though they are well […]

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Green screen animation technique- Featured artist: Mauricio Lozano

Green screen animation technique This clip below from Mauricio Lozano features several higher-level animation techniques. The first is filming against a green screen. This compositing technique allows you to crop out the background and replace the it with a photograph or 3d modeled scene. As you can see from the final composite, this technique is […]

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Green screen animation technique- Featured artist: Mauricio Lozano

Green screen animation technique- Featured artist: Mauricio Lozano

How to use ModiBot with green screen for visual effects animation.

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Make a DIY figure stand for animation and aerial posing

Make a DIY figure stand for animation and aerial posing

How to make your own figure stand for ultimate ModiBot posing and stopmotion animation!

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ModiBot at Maker Faire New York: Flash back to year 1

ModiBot at Maker Faire New York in 2013- Featuring a rare shot of the 16 inch ModiBot Mo on display as we were starting to set up the booth. This was the first event that we sold Mo kits to the public and was about 2 weeks before we started shipping the first batch of figures. […]

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ModiBot Mod Shop revamp at Shapeways

2017 is on the horizon and we’re putting some long-overdue time into the ModiBot Custom Shop.  Its where to buy essential upgrades and accessories for your standard Mo figures, as well as some alternate body styles like a full Moli (female) figure, Myke (minifig), ModiRaptor, or Mo Blanco (no hex holes) figure. If you haven’t […]

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ModiBot Custom Shop revamp at Shapeways

2017 is on the horizon and we're putting some long-overdue time into the ModiBot Custom Shop.  Its where to buy essential upgrades and accessories for your standard Mo figures, as well as some alternate body styles like a full Moli (female) figure, Myke (minifig), ModiRaptor, or Mo Blanco (no hex holes) figure.

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ModiBot Mo figure as simple stopmotion animation puppet

How to use ModiBot Mo figure kit as a stopmotion animation armature for designing custom puppets.

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Rhode Island Mini Maker Faire | Celebrate New England DIY

Rhode Island Mini Maker Faire | Celebrate New England DIY Come check out ModiBot this Saturday at RI mini Maker Faire at Foo Fest! We’ll have a demo table for tinkering with the parts and ModiBot Myke 3d printed mini figures for kids to build and decorate. Drop by and say “Hey!”

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Help bring ModiBot Mo to life at Kickstarter!

Help us raise the money for our first production run of Mo figure chassis’ and get some great swag! Click above or go to our Kickstarter page to check it out. (Source: http://www.kickstarter.com/)

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