Model Making

We take great care in planning out the scale of each model character in relation to its environments. This helps us to achieve an immersive world that we can explore with the help of stop motion animation. Our aim is such that once the camera points at something, you should feel like you’re looking into another world.

Model making is an integral part of what we do at Second Home Animation Studios. If you’re reading this page, then below you’ll find any blog posts that talk about model making. We hope you enjoy them…

The RTS Midlands 2022 Logo
2D Animation

RTS Midlands Award Nominations 2022

In 2021, The Royal Television Society held their annual RTS Midlands award ceremony online. (Where we watched the celebration of creativity unfold – in our PJ’s). This year, the 2022 Midlands awards will be held

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Still from a stop motion animation showing a water aid technician repairing a tap
Animation

The Drum Roses Awards Win

We’re proud to announce Second Home Studios won a bronze award in the Illustration/Animation category of the The Drum Roses Awards. We were shortlisted for our recent stop-motion work, The Girls Who Turned To Water,

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2D Animation

Behind The Scenes On Penny

After racking up millions of hits worldwide, we thought it was time to reveal some nuts and bolts footage of Penny ‘Arctic’ coming together complete with staplers, glue guns and little grey balls. Below are

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Animation

European Co-Production for Penny

In September and October this year, we were commissioned by VFX house Glassworks, Amsterdam to shoot miniature sets for the Christmas campaign for German store, Penny Market. The models were designed and built by Andy

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Meet the 'Bone Gang'
Miniature Sets

Trick or Treat!

Our Halloween Homage to Harryhausen This summer we made a brilliant new creative friendship in the form of Ian Davies, photographer par excellence. Ian is in the process of collating a 100 strong collection of

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Diet Coke - Love it Light - Puppetry
Miniature Sets

Puppets Galore

Just for laughs we’ve compiled a clip reel of our projects where we’ve worked with traditional puppetry, featuring marionettes and/or rod-controlled and hand-controlled puppets. It makes a great change when we can shoot with these,

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