Final bit of stop motion...

Today I'm generating the last piece of stop motion, after today I will have all the raw animations completed, these last scenes will need the sea adding over the next couple of days and and there are a few post productions tweaks needed on the rest of the animation, but it's all coming together it seems.

I've added in some rigging that can be seen as the ship spins around, this was from a photograph I took in Hartlepool a few months ago. (Forward panning at it's very best!)

The next scene set up mid animation with cat fur cannon smoke!

How things look at the moment with the sky and rigging dropped into the background.

And then:

The next couple of scenes relied on an armada of ships in bottles sailing across the screen:

Tediously edging each ship along why rocking at the same time, they're raised up on boxes to get a nice low angle from the camera.

I'm now working on dropping them into the classic old animated sea scene, something I've wanted to have a go at ever seeing The Tale of How at the beginning of the course.