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My name is Lionel Ivan Orozco and I live in the
San Francisco Bay Area. In my y![]() After Gumby, stop motion animation jobs were few. I decided to try a "behind the doors entry" approach, thinking this would give me an advantage in getting animation jobs. I started teaching myself how to build animation armatures. There were no books on how to make these mysterious articulated metal devices. I studied the few published pictures of armatures available at that time and taught myself just the basic machining skills necessary to fabricate them. It took much practice and lots of mistakes. I do not consider myself a specialist "Machinist" and I do not make a living as one. Sometimes one can get too technically involved with only armatures and not see the "big picture". Eventually I did some freelance jobs exclusively making armatures and other puppet fabrication work and small effects jobs. Like Anthony, I also very much appreciate Stop Motion. In my visits to his stop motion website-message board, I am very pleased that there still seems to be a worldwide interest in this fantastic art of Stop Motion. Sometimes, one feels "alone" in this avocation. Currently, regular work in Stop Motion Animation seems to be sporadic; however, it does seem to make these cyclical comebacks with renewed popularity to new audiences. Hopefully, all this interest & activity on the internet will in some small way, contribute in keeping Classic Stop Motion Animation alive & more viable in the marketplace, alongside Cel animation & CG animation. Some work I have done.....Next >> an -->g |
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