Stop-Motion Character Animation

I originally set out to animate a "Space Opera" with this character, but he was stubborn. Basically, all he wanted to do was lay there. As Professor Garcia has said before, you win some, you lose some. He kept crumbling and falling apart, so I had to quickly devise an alternate plan.

For this animation, I made graduated notches on the "ground" paper. Those notches followed a line that was parallel to the horizon. This combination of line an notches created a path that the objects were going to follow. The rocket in the back had notches that were closer together, whereas the object in front has wider spacing. This difference in spacing gives the appearance of depth, since objects in the foreground seem to move faster than those in the background. The character was supported with a dowel, which was covered by the tail of his rocket. There are 48 individual frames.