Study Task 2 - #2

Almax is an advertisement for a mannequin company. It uses a mix of live action film with stop motion, to give the illusion that the mannequins come to life when the sculptor has finished making them and has left the room.
I re-watched this looking at the detail of the shots, looking into how they transitioned from a sculpture life-size mannequin in the live action to  the silicone puppets with armatures in them to animate with.
I quickly realised that the puppets were green screened and the animation of their dance was layered over the live action shots. It was through the illusion of the live action character touching the mannequins with close ups of him sculpting with clay, that tricks the eye into thinking they are life-sized.

A fault I noticed in this technique was that their feet do not touch the ground, although the rig is well edited out I could almost imagine it still there holding them up. This is something I should be very aware of if I am to create stop motion animation with puppets as the rig holding them up must be edited out well and when using a green screen I must create the same atmosphere with similar lighting to the set it will be edited onto.