Stopmotion Workshop

Woaaahh!!! today was the best workshop we had so far!

Playing with Stop Motion to make an animation with plasticines was so fun. And we also had a lot of time to experiment so we made few animations and not just one. I teamed up with Dhanesha and here's our experimentations...

This is our first animation and we just did something simple with balls to get familiar with stop motion and we made the balls like crashing into each other so that we would get to play with stretch and squash a lot.

This is our second video and we got to experiment with stretch and squash with the "monster" and also with simply moving the character without stretch and squash with the "victim". There's also some anticipation going on with the monster's movement. We also got to experiment with different facial expression and some exaggeration with the monster at the end. And because our motion project has to have audio we also tried to add sound to it. However with the sound it was pretty hard to make it sound fluid because it was stop motion and it was really fast also, maybe this would have been easier to record the sound if the we would have taken more pictures and make the video more smooth.

This one is our 3rd video which is really short and even got my hands in it, we didn't experiment with anything much except for the flapping, we were just having fun haha.

This one is our last experimentation, my favorite, "The I Don't Care Character", simply because it didn't care of his head falling off. We did stretch and squash, anticipation, if you didn't notice, before he kind of rush we tried to make his body roll a little bit like in Looney Tunes when they are about to run. Also there's a bit of follow through overlapping action going on with his head, and we emphasised that by making it fall off. In the middle we made the creature blink and this was to try to play with expressions a little bit more. And lastly we tried to play with some deformation at the end just because it was fun and we got to try to make a liquid move.

Overall stop motion is great! Before this workshop I wasn't even considering stop motion for the project but now that I've given it a try and seeing how easy it can be, well it can be an option. However stop motion can become kind of a pain if there's a lot of motion in it, even when we were 2 working of those videos we did forget to move one of the characters in our second trial at times and it is kind of visible in the video if you look closely.