I am following the book Stop Motion Filmmaking by Christopher Walsh on puppet construction. Overall it's clear and well-written, but in one area I'm confused. After the clay head model to be used for the mould has been baked, the book contains the following instructions:

• "Use the rotary tool to cut out the hole in the head [where the neck will go]." [stuff about cutting the hole which isn't relevant]

• "Cut a piece of 3mm armature approx. 4cm in length. Push the wire into the hole, making sure it's nicely centered."

• "Slide a 3cm long piece of 4mm square brass stock over this wire, and again ensure that it's nicely centered. This creates a registration for the soon-to-be created mould."

• [a bunch of stuff about making the mould which isn't relevant]

• "Carefully prise the two parts of the mould apart and remove the head sculpture."

• "Pop out and discard the piece of armature wire from the neck area of the head. Ensure that the piece of registration brass stock is squarely seated in the mould, with a few mm sticking out into the mould area. The mould is now ready for casting."

I get the point of all this (you later slide a large brass stock onto the registration stock and cast the head around it). What I don't understand is what's keeping the wire in the head?

I am just trying to create a birthday wish stop motion video for my girlfriend
Can I use iPad and pictures inside them to use as a prop for the videos - like I am thinking about creating motion with moving pictures and some other designs inside the iPad and capturing it . I know it sounds silly , but I am very bad in drawing props and as iPad already has tons of our photos in am thinking about using them . And also it will be easy to create virtual props inside the iPad.
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So i recently got started with stop motion studio, and i usually use my phone for taking the pictures. i recently finished a little project and uploaded the clip into the computer version of stop motion studio, but when it imports it cuts off a few phots and makes the animation look so choppy, is there a fix for this?

So just getting into stop motion, and I was wondering what are someone of the more experienced stop motion animator's opinion on Adobe Character Animate. Does one have an advantage over the other?

ACA does seem make things a whole lot easier, thats for sure.

So I want to work on a stop motion video of my puppet interviewing a celebrity. Now the celebrity interview I am using is from a 60 fps video. And the stop motion animation is in 12 fps. I am rotoscoping the celebrity's head from the interview video into my stop animation video, on top of a puppet's body. How exactly do I go about this?

I hope that made sense.

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