Stopmotion Freud from luciano do amaral on Vimeo.

Brazilian Animator Luciano Do Amaral has made a brilliant and hilarious character animation piece in ‘Stop Motion Freud’. Scenery and props from the studio of animator Cesar Coelho of Campo 4, for the Miniseries “So what do women want?”.

The gestural expressions are subtle, complex (no pun intended), fluid and eccentric- just like their subject.

He used replacement mouths-but just the lips. The teeth and the beard remain constant with a kind of coil system that he’s created for himself. The video shows some his rigging setups. The piece was shot with Dragon Stop Motion, on ones at 24 frames per second to bring the character to life. With his keen observation of flamboyant quirks and passionate machinations – the animation of a complex mind, Luciano might be deserving of an honorary doctorate in Psychoanalysis himself. Hopefully his ‘ego’ doesn’t get carried away like it does at the end of the film.