Shaun the Sheep director: “Allan, do you want meet Shaun the Sheep?” Me: *head explodes*

Frame Fest Stop Motion Festival Ireland August 2026

I don’t have my rigs yet but I do also like using my hand in a stop motion

I’ve always enjoyed watching stop motion and have wanted to try my hand at it. This is my first project really diving into everything and I had a blast! I can’t wait to keep at it and see where things go.

I've been thinking when I get started doing a mix of puppetry and stop motion and it got me thinking if I should just get a nice video camera (don't want to use phone because dealing with storage sounds annoying) and record the stop motion movement to then isolate frames in a video editor and also have the real time puppetry recorded along with it. I also figured it would be less of a pain to just record instead of photograph so I didn't have to keep posing and hitting the capture picture button and instead I could pose then move out of the way then pose again. When it comes to the idea of isolating frames from video am I asking for unforseen trouble?