Gunpla VS Mystery Box - A Stop Motion Animation Short

I asked the owner of my main hobby shop what this little metal dog was, and he said it was a highly articulate high detail dog, and then he found the Shiba Inu that he handed me and said it had spider legs... and that it would be awesome to see an animation. It was an easy sell at that point and I got it home and started thinking about what to do!

Core gundam is always a fun helper, fun to animate, Moon Gundam was just freshly built, and I have been wanting to see what I can get away with for articulation, fighting and given I have limited camera angles, I used this as an opportunity for a scuffle, and to reveal the main attraction.

Gunpla are unquestionably fun to build and animate the build. But where they have the downside of being fragile this dog is literally made of metal for 60% of him and the plastic joints are pretty tight and move real nice, and even though I'm not an engineer I can't imagine designing the shiba to be packed with as many weapons as I have trouble showing off, even if they are all visual.

I have had this half done for more than a month, but just got around to finishing this today. There is a new master grade that I opened to start building and it's going to be a beast.

If you're new, welcome! This currently remains a hobby, it's not sponsored and it's not a commercial. I'm just an enthusiastic animator and aside from the 2D effects its really nice to get away from a computer and incorporate hobbies into my animation : )

Music is loops from garage band I squished together.

2D effects are hand drawn in Clip Studio.

I use Stop Motion on an iphone to capture the animation itself.