DX9 D-10 Hanzo Transformation Sequence

Stop-Motion Transformation of DX9 D-10 Hanzo. It's a fun figure. The legs and the hands are a bit tricky.

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Normal Runs
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Wolf to Spaceship: 0:09
Spaceship to Truck: 0:52
Truck to Tank: 1:18
Tank to Gun: 1:58
Gun to Robot: 2:24
Robot to Gun: 3:01
Gun to Tank: 3:43
Tank to Truck: 4:06
Truck to Spaceship: 4:47
Spaceship to Wolf: 5:13

Speed Runs
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Wolf to Spaceship: 5:53
Spaceship to Truck: 6:07
Truck to Tank: 6:15
Tank to Gun: 6:27
Gun to Robot: 6:34
Robot to Gun: 6:44
Gun to Tank: 6:56
Tank to Truck: 7:03
Truck to Spaceship: 7:14
Spaceship to Wolf: 7:22

2x Run: 7:35
End credits: 8:25

Production Note: I had pictured doing this the same way as the triple-changers, but it turns out I can’t. Like I mathematically can’t.

You see, if there are two modes, then every part has a distinct destination. So I just film that starting in one mode and going all the way to the other mode with turns at each end.

With a triple-changer, every part has from 1 to 2 destinations. Two modes might share a destination for a part, but there will always be the third mode that has that other destination for that part. So I set the figure up so that every part is where it would be in a *majority* of modes (so 2 out of 3). I call this a “primordial” form. It looks half-transformed So I shoot that by going from the primordial to one of the three modes. Some parts won’t have to move going between the two modes that have the majority. So you avoid having any parts that do absurd things like unfold and then immediately refold when moving between the particular two modes that share the position. This primordial position is, as far as I can tell, *always* possible for triple changers.
(And then I very carefully reset back to the primordial for each of the three sequences and I stitch it together in post in the pattern 1231321 to cover all six possible transitions.)

Think of a 4-changer as being like two overlapping triple-changers. So two modes could share the position of one part, and the other two modes would share the other position. So instead of a 1 to 3 split (that is analogous to the 1 to 2 splits in triple-changers) you have a 2-2 split. So where does that part go in the primordial(p)? If you put it halfway between its two positions(A and B), then when you go from A to A you will do this superfluous A-p-A move. One 2-2 split could be managed with a bit more position alignment. So the superfluous ApA move could be edited out in post. But to have more than one 2-2 split becomes unmanageable. The problem is exponentially worse by the time you get to a 6-changer.

So I just split the modes between the three “legs stowed” modes and the three “legs out” modes and put them in the most logical sequence. Wolf ended up first because it has more unique positions for parts. Spaceship and Truck are pretty similar and Tank and Gun are pretty similar.

Viewing Note:
If you want to follow along, I recommend skipping to the speed run and using the Chrome plugin called "Frame by Frame for YouTube". It turns your , and . keyboard keys into single-frame movement keys. Every step of the transformation is documented in the frames of the video, in what I consider to be the best sequence. With minimal rubbing and minimal parts-parking.

Music: The music is by Ethan Meixsell - www.ethanmeixsell.com
Songs: “Pride Before the Fall”, “March On”, “Takeoff”, “Thor’s Hammer”

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