Finished stop-motion animations

As previously stated there were two versions of the stop-motion element of my animation. here is the version that I decided to lose:

The picture in window was a place holder to experiment with the green screen keying to see how I would go about putting the original designs in there. The reason why I chose to lose this version was due to the lack of character that the sheep had, after losing their legs they started looking less like sheep and more like standard balls, as Barry Purves said there were some crucial elements that a character needed to bring it to life.  The sheep had to be always in contact with the floor due to not having a fully functional rig which is why I tested what it would be like if they didn't have legs, another issue was the black paint on the heads started cracking as they were manipulated, this was an inconvenience that I encountered through both primary and secondary research as many practitioners were faced with this issue and had to discover ways of working around it, for example in Aardman studios their sheep were made out of black and white plasticine but where possible they used hard elements for the puppets as the plasticine was hard to work with, and as stated in the theoretical part of this project one of the downfalls of stop-motion is the price of materials can cause very high budgets, so with Aardmans characters being very large this would increase the budget even further whereas CGI doesn't encounter this problem due to its virtual nature.

This is version two, the version in which I kept - I found the legs added that little bit of extra character to the sheep and created a more understandable animation.

To compare them both, they both are the same apart from the lack of legs in the first test, but as I researched into the uncanny this could very well still work as an animation as it doesn't cause any negative responses as there are many kids toys or decorative pieces that do embody the form of legless sheep or something similar, but if it was CGI then I think some negative responses would be created due to the nature of CGI and its renown to be able to do anything so it leaves the audience feeling like something was missing, so stop-motion would be the best method to use for a legless sheep animation for its tangibility, as the art of paranorman describes that its a certain aesthetic that is achieved through both methods and in terms of the first test then stop-motion would probably produce a better response.