Stop Motion Character Animation

For my stop motion character animation, I first had to find a subject for my animation. This was a little bit difficult for me, because living away form home, I don't have a lot of posable action figures or stuffed animals. Of the few ones I brought up with me, I selected the stuffed animal that was the most posable. To make it easier on myself, I decided to keep the story of my animation simple: a dog waking up and looking for a bone. I was able to pose the dog beyond sitting and laying down by using embrodery thread, turning the stuffed animal into more along the lines of a puppet. Once I shot everything, I took all of the photos into Photoshop to edit myself out of the pictures (doing this also helped me keep the shot even, because I sometimes had problems keeping the same camera angle from picture to picture.) Once all of the photos were edited and turned into .gifs, I combined all of the scenes together in Premiere Pro.