I’m shutting this down I’ve decided to shut down the Dropbear Emporium. It started as a place to house my illustrations of retro tech; old consoles, cameras, weird bits of nostalgic hardware, but I haven’t been able to give it the attention it deserves. So I’m closing it. Before I do, I wanted to give you a heads up. Shop the final run This is the final run of prints, once they’re gone, that’s it. Some of these won’t be reprinted again. If you’ve ever thought about grabbing one, now’s the...

Happy New Year! I hope you had a wonderful holiday season and are ready to dive into another exciting year of stop motion animation. As I look ahead to 2023, I can't help but feel a sense of renewed energy and inspiration for the art form I love. One of the things I'm most excited about for the upcoming year is the continued growth and evolution of stop motion animation technology. With new software and hardware tools becoming available all the time, the possibilities for what can be achieved...

Dropbear's Stop Motion Tips Greetings and welcome to the second broadcast from Dropbear! ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ Stop motion animation is just as much as a technical art form as it is creative and there are some really simple things you can do to immensely improve the quality of your animations. Tip #1 Use controlled, constant lighting One of the most common mistakes I see when people are starting out in stop motion, is animating without controlling the light. Any lighting changes from an external source such...