Stop the Madness!

Posted on July 16, 2008 by Rosa Schneider

In this workshop we learned how to do Stop-Motion animation, which is a technique where the animator takes pictures, moving his or her subject slightly and taking lots of frames (it takes 30 pictures to make up a second of video!). The workshop was a ton of fun, as I have never done film-making or animation before. I worked with Wes Price (the workshop leader) on an animation using Chinese Checkers. It ended up looking really great (we had lots of patterns, including one where all the pieces moved across the board), but it was really hard moving the pieces around--we chased an especially slippery blue piece two or three times across the room. I also worked with Christine, the other instructor, who was making an animation with play-doh, which formed a face that morphed into a ton of different expressions and hair styles. Okay, to be honest, the students and Christine made a face, I tried to, but ended up playing with play-doh. It was my first experience with animation of any sort, and I definitely want to do it again!