After unsuccessfully rigging the puppet using wire, some studio rigs were required. For the size and weight of the puppet, it has to be supported with two studio rigs. The clip above demonstrates roughly some of the poses the puppet will have to perform. The green screen background is essential because the fish's surroundings will be digitally animated.
The task of animating the fish showed me some of the issues I would face giving this inanimate object believable on screen. The expression of the mouth and eyes aid this but it was difficult moving the fish subtly enough to not make jolts in the animation. In production I will correct this by duplicating frames for timing purposes and taking more care with moving the puppet between frames.
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