Miscraft’s Workshop

BEHIND THE SCENES AT MISCRAFT’S WORKSHOP

If you watch NASCAR content on YouTube, you’ve almost certainly come across Miscraft. Creator Tyler McDonald spends dozens of hours handcrafting tracks and scripting every event for his Miscraft stop-motion die-cast series. We got a chance to go behind the scenes and get his personal take on every step of the process.

Step 1

“Before filming a stop-motion race, it is important to be sure everything is in order.” Step 2

“All of the track details from prerace staging to foliage must be taken care of.”

Step 4

“The stop-motion is what people click on the videos for. It’s the highest priority of the whole project. I devote many hours and lots of ‘tender love and care’ into the animation to make sure the quality is the best it can be.” “Most importantly, however, the filming equipment must be set up and ready to film. Lights, tripods and other filming equipment help create a more eye-catching and pleasing product.”

Step 5

“Taking ample amounts of pictures, creating unique camera angles and putting lots of attention to the movement of the cars helps to create a minireplica of what a real NASCAR race would be like.”

The first season of the fictional Miscraft Cup Series launched in August of 2016, and has since garnered his channel almost 3 million lifetime views. The series is currently in its 8th season, and it’s no mystery why. Tyler shows us here that even when the animation is over, the real project begins - editing! The process itself can take several hours, but fans know the wait is worth it.