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I liked the underwaer bit.

Glad you all liked it!!!
clayfighter you got specidic on me, hehe, so here are your answers

1. that is motion blur, to make it look like it is going fast.
2. That is actually a beaver joke, beavers keep an underwater food storage outside of their house incase they run out inside.
3. ooooooh..... the only way i can answer that is....... it is a cartoon.
4. not sure i will probably do i new one, no ideas yet.
5.yep my dad does all the voices, and the music
6. The snowman is a slight parody of the snowman in Rudolf the red nosed reindeer
7. that is a tricky one, i had a two foot slope, and when they got to the bottom i moved them back to the top, so yeah it is kinda looped

his favourite parts~
1.took a while to think of all those funny food puns
2.that was actually one of the hardest things to shoot in the whole episode
3. all i can say is, i cant believe you got the catiplliar thing!!!
4.that set was about 1' by 1' really small!

Nice!
Any chance of some behind the scenes pics??

sure! i got a good picture of the hill i used for the sledding scene. and some pictures of the rig that i used to make drake fly.

Awesome! I'd be very interested to see them, the sledge scene was done really well. How many times did you have to loop it??

i think i made them go down like 6 times, the slope was like 2 feet long.

Do you use magnets or die towns to keep Twigs standing?

sometimes i will use a little bit of handitak, the stuff that you use to hang posters and stuff, on his feet, but he is pretty well balanced

Oh! and i don't know if any of you noticed but i re-did the theme song, you can compare it to the one on the other episodes it is much better.

beaver creak ep.4 is wicked! But im sure i saw the animation jump at the beginning...

WOW that was great Iantimothy loved it

Read a few posts then skipped here. I'm with ajmole... what's Beaver Creek?

Here is a link to IanTimothy's channel on youtube. It has all of the Beaver Creek episodes so far: http://www.youtube.com/user/IBTimothy

P.S. Are you new? If so, welcome!

IT, do you have some behind the scenes pics ready to put up now?

The Beaver Creek Episodes are a stop motion, Clay animated series i have been working on for the past two years or so, the link that joshy just posted has all of them on it, I just finished the fourth one yesterday. and i am going to post the pictures right now

here is a picture of the rig that i used to make drake fly, it is actually an old microphone stand with fishing wire attached to it.

here

and here is the slope, it is a piece of plywood held up by some books with a white sheet over it

here it is

Wow really cool. So how did you go about tracking the camera down the slope. Did you just alter the height and position of the tripod?

thats exactly right.

Does Twigs have a ball and Socket armature?

he has a armaverse http://www.armaverse.com/

Awesome! How much do they cost for one? Can you buy one which is the shape of a dog?

the one i got was about $100 and i think they do make dog ones

wow,what a great armaverse...LUCKY TWIGS!
thanks for answering all my questions,i wasnt trying to nit pik,but those are things i was wondering/saw, and i thought you might enjoy answeriung them.
Ian you are a legendary animator,ive never told you but you were my inspiration too start animating,and even though i failed at first,i wanted too create a series like beaver creek...with scott!
do you have a behind the scenes shot at the leaves?if not thats fine,but i would like too see it set up,it looked complex!(little strings?)
also i did notice the opening theme song,but you did mention that you re-did it!
thanks again for answering my questions!

oh and on the site it has the dog armaverses aswell

it was amazing!
well done

Can you post a link?

to what?

To the dog armature

Its on the link that Ian gave you,just scroll down
there are three types of dog armaverses.Medium,Large and a 3 in 1 dog kit,heres a link to all three.
http://www.armaverse.com/phase-3.html#Dogs
they are the last few items on the page

It is on the creations contest now, so if you would like to rate and comment on the actual video, it is the third one on the page

"P.S. Are you new? If so, welcome!"

No, I posted that when I came on for the first time in ages.

naw wghtmf iantimothyhas been here for ages

no someone asked him that a while ago

666joshy666 Posted: Feb 21st 2010
Here is a link to IanTimothy's channel on youtube. It has all of the Beaver Creek episodes so far: http://www.youtube.com/user/IBTimothy

P.S. Are you new? If so, welcome!