My idea is we could have the smarties tube rolling along the floor like a bit of rubbish. When it stops we see it raise up with legs that grow out of it (A bit of photoshopping a single image to make several and sequencing them.) Then we see the tube move along a bit like a caterpillar. We could even give it eyes..
Here is the start of a constructed smarties tube, with just the one leg:
Materials needed will be some red wire or wire and red paint - the legs will need to stand out. Drawing pins to make the initial holes to poke the wire legs through. Pliers, scissors, blue tack, see through tape, gaffa tape - to secure the legs inside and double sided tape to close up the smarties tube again.
I did an experiment on flash to see the different positions needed:
Ok - so not mega realistic but not bad for 4 simple poses. Here is a breakdown of the 4 different poses + the starting pose:
So what I would like to do is make 5 different smarties tube creatures with legs all in the different positions, then stop motion them either on a green surface to allow for it to go on any backdrop or somewhere for real. I guess the other option is just to make one smarties creature with strong and flexible legs but this may be harder to pull off and more fiddly...time will tell.
Now I must go and buy lots of smarties :)
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