Stop Motion Workshop

I participated in a 2-person team workshop to create two pieces of Stop Motion Animation. One used the medium of paper cut-outs and the other used a rigged model. Credit to Ali Guzzo for working with me on these animations

I was animating the pink character and the box (on left), and my partner, the green character (on right). The medium of cut-out animation is somewhat stressful, I have found, with trying to keep the different pieces of paper in the right places as you take your fingers off them. But overall, I think this animation was pretty successful.

A little less stressful was the puppet animation. With magnetic feet and a rig inside the model, changing the pose for each frame was a lot easier; however, knocking the camera mid-shot can be ruinous. We took turns between animating the character and plasticine ball so we both had an equal share of the animating.

As much fun as both these projects were (and I mean just the Puppet animation) I much prefer the freedoms that come with the 2D medium of drawn animation.