Virtual and Actual material handling and animation Process in Practice

The experimental working process in craft practice for stop-motion model making is as follows:

Observation of the real
Drawing practice
Direct photographic reference
Deconstruction (if possible)
Template making in actual materials
Reconstruction to form a puppet
Add the function of mobility (if required)
Lighting and set
Camera positions, and motion
Stop-Motion/Puppetry/Time-lapse Animation
Post-Production


The experimental working process in CGI is as follows:

Observation of the real
Drawing practice
Direct Photographic Reference (from own library)
Construction of wireframe
Mapping development
Rendering virtual artefact
Lighting
Camera set-up
Animation


Each step in the process may be aligned or differentiated from the other and related back to the key research questions.