Plans growed

[bugshaw]

The trouble with my brilliant plan to use the tiny clip-on koalas to perform a ceilidh dance using stop-motion animation is that the cat might try to help, and attack the koalas. Which could scatter in stop-motion, and run away climbing up curtains and stuff! I wonder if I can get the cat to pose still enough for the series of photos? Maybe I should use a toy cat instead, or maybe a dinosaur...

Comments

[angoel.livejournal.com]

I think this is known as 'feature creep'.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Is the Feature Creep a dance, like the Monster Mash?

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

PLAN FOR WORLD CEILIDH DOMINATION

Step 3: Find caller
Step 4: Find dances
...
Step 517: Find giant motionless cat to menace koala dancers
...
Step 118,498: Shave Yak
...
Step 3,001,720: Profit!

[alex-holden.livejournal.com]

Is there going to be a stop-motion band and caller too? Which dance are they going to do?

[techiebabe.livejournal.com]

I might have known you'd be here :)

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

> Which dance are they going to do?

Oh dear, it's going to have to involve stripping the eucalyptus, isn't it?

[alex-holden.livejournal.com]

*Groan*

[techiebabe.livejournal.com]

Sorry, what? Clip on koalas performing a ceilidh dance?

What have I missed?!

[saare-snowqueen.livejournal.com]

Have you explained the problem to the cats?

[alexmc.livejournal.com]

You know my cat Simba. Well I wanted to do a monster movie in Lego stop motion where he comes along and walks through the town.

[frandowdsofa.livejournal.com]

If you tie garden canes to the cat's legs with bonsai wire, and then attach it to a piece of furniture, you can pose it and advance the motion quite successfully. Or if you are doing a period piece, dressing it in something stiff with lots of whalebone works too.

[ms-cataclysm.livejournal.com]

Miaow ! Slap ! Kill !

[maryread.livejournal.com]

LOL! LOL! LOL!

Don't they just fall over when you wrap them up tight?

[frandowdsofa.livejournal.com]

If you give them a big conical costume (like a wedding dress or a priest's cassock) you can dangle the back legs inside, and fix the upper body in place with the corset part. A ramrod up the back stops them wiggling about.